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In Lui Liu’s paintings, the familiar collapses into the extraordinary, and everyday life shimmers with an intimacy that borders on transgression. A provincial wedding hall becomes a stage where gestures once disciplined by custom unfurl with quiet, subversive insistence. Figures occupy the space like vessels of desire and reflection, their […]
Stepping into the HR Giger Museum Bar in Gruyères is like being swallowed by a living nightmare that’s also a masterpiece. Perched atop a hill in a medieval castle that has weathered four centuries of Swiss winters and sun, the bar feels less like a venue and more like an […]
Certain artists approach the human body as if unearthing a relic preserved across centuries of forgotten myth. Tesi, known in the digital ether as Tesi Four, born Sergey in the wide-breathed solemnity of Novokuznetsk, belongs to this quiet lineage of seekers. In his vision, the naked figure rises as a […]
Looking for work can be brutal, but in Park Chan-wook’s latest, it’s downright lethal. The South Korean auteur behind “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” returns with “No Other Choice,” a pitch-black satire that imagines a job market where eliminating the competition is not just metaphorical. Set to hit cinemas on January […]
A24 is polishing its altar again, this time for “Mother Mary,“ David Lowery’s upcoming psychological drama-thriller set to crash into theaters in April 2026. Forget the soft-focus mythmaking of “A Ghost Story,” Lowery seems finally ready to sink his teeth into something juicier, weirder, and possibly occult as hell. Front […]
Chasing Dolls show up like a welcome glitch in the system: everything shifts, everything vibrates, nothing behaves, and that’s exactly the point. They’re the sort of band that turns sleep deprivation into religion, skateparks into sanctuaries, and personal disasters into plot twists. If you’re meeting them for the first time, […]
In June 2025, Moscow-based photographer Ilya Fomin journeyed to Merzhanovo, a secluded corner of Russia’s Rostov Oblast, to create a new series that reads as a visual poem. Nestled near the Sea of Azov, Merzhanovo’s quiet fields, traditional rural rhythms, and untouched landscapes form the perfect crucible for Fomin’s explorations […]
A new era of cinematic ambition takes shape in Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” a film poised to redefine what it means to dream on screen. Following his hypnotic explorations in “Kaili Blues” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,“ the Chinese auteur returns with an anthology that blurs the line between reality […]
Martin Amis returns to the Thames Estuary with “Reverie,“ a new photobook that feels less like a publication and more like a field report smuggled out of a dream. The project extends the quiet pulse of his earlier “This Land,“ yet the atmosphere here is heavier, more haunted, as if […]
An album sometimes arrives like a stranger at dusk, carrying on its shoulders the damp scent of withered leaves and the hush of a forgotten room. “Late Autumn Lullaby,” the latest dark-ambient offering from Mourneress, seems to step from precisely such a twilight doorway, one leading into a world where […]