Look Who’s Come to Dinner: Andy Warhol

I first met Andy at a New Year’s Eve party, which was being held by the friend of a friend in an abandoned aeroplane hangar, outside of Paris. He was surrounded by people and yet, moving across the invisible floor to catch a glimpse of the silver phantom in the corner, Irealised that he was …

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Nurturing Fertile Ground: In Conversation with Evan Purdy and Molly Maltman

It was over New Years when I first met Evan Purdy and Molly Maltman. Enthusiastically they described to me their vision of a collective future: artists, living and working together, creating a space in which they can display their work without having to compromise for commercial gain. It felt like a utopian aspiration, though not a completely implausible proposition. Now, in the Parisian gloom of an April washout, I talk to them again through the miracle of technology, all about how to curate a more cooperative future for young artists.

Walking into the Living Room of Dreams: Inès di Folco Jemni at Magasins Généraux

Inès di Folco Jemni © Welane Navarre

It feels as though I have reached the end of the world, travelling from my nook in the southernmost part of the city, north to Pantin and into this sun-lit room of dreams. It is here, in the post-industrial epicentre of Paris’ regenerative mission, that the Magasins Généraux hosts its latest exhibition, Le Salon des Songes, created by artist and musician, Inès di Folco Jemni.

Bullring Outside Sevilla: danger, desire and dance in the photography of Ruven Afanador

Ruven Afanador, Noel Pardo and Cristóbal Pardo Jr., Bogotá, Colombia (Torero Series), 2001

Afanador’s work balances high theatricality and a sensibility towards the delicate and the precise. There is a desire to display the subject, which ranges from trained ballet dancers, to cult celebrity figures, to the idenginous communities of his native Colombia, without pretense or artifice.