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There’s something quietly compelling about the way Antony Szmierek arrived in music, not through ambition, but through observation, writing, and a moment of stillness that pushed everything forward. What began as poetry, scribbled over time, slowly found its way into sound during a period when the world itself felt suspended. […]
Paris has always known how to domesticate ghosts. Lenny Kravitz’s residence in the 16th arrondissement, a grand 1920s hôtel particulier known as Villa Roxie, carries a name shaped by private history. It honors Roxie Roker, his mother, and the Paris she once imagined for herself. The tribute is embedded into […]
Qingshan Liu is a China-based photographer whose work moves between intimacy and tension, instinct and observation. His images focus on contemporary youth, not as a defined generation, but as individuals navigating emotional extremes, desire, anxiety, closeness, and distance. His latest body of work, brought together in “The Heat of the […]
The Romanian post-punk scene is coming back to life and, somehow, being rediscovered after many years of numbness. Lately, it has managed to throw into the world a series of compositions, entire albums, even, that deserve to be taken seriously on the international stage. We are talking, therefore, about young […]
Ductape return with ‘Obscure’, a hypnotic new single that feels like a transmission from the inner machinery of “Faded Flowers”, their forthcoming album, and already its third revealed fragment. There is a certain inevitability in the way the track unfolds, as though the duo have stopped writing songs in the […]
There’s something different about this issue. Not just in the way it looks, although it does look sharper, more layered, and intentional, but in how it moves. Issue #8 feels like a space where different practices collide: music, visual art, digital experimentation, and everything in between. CVLTARTES Issue #8 brings […]
The renowned musician from Timișoara, Petre Ionuțescu, has released a new record titled “Medusara”, an album composed of eight tracks inspired by the artist’s travels across different corners of the world. From Piața Unirii, home, from the banks of the Bega River, the journey moves forward along the blue Danube, […]
Sergey Goncharov, who signs his work under the name catarsic, approaches photography as if it were a language still in the process of being invented. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he is drawn to the nude as a site where image and poetry begin to overlap, where the body carries the […]
Dmitry Krapivin, a Russian photographer with more than twelve years behind the lens, has built his visual language around the austere seduction of black-and-white portraiture. In the absence of color, something more volatile surfaces: the texture of a gaze, the quiet defiance of a posture, the fragile electricity between photographer […]
In the labyrinthine sprawl of modern UK, Sleaford Mods return with “The Demise Of Planet X,” a thirteen-track testament to discontent, a chiaroscuro of the everyday weighed against the looming shadow of societal collapse. Jason Williamson’s voice, jagged and unrelenting, prowls the album like a specter through the decaying corridors […]