issue 237

How the artist duo challenge the gentrification of New York’s Chinatown

Sean Burns on living with a cherished David LaChapelle portrait of the fashion icon

The performer shares her soundtrack to preparing for a night out

A look into the intersection of luxury, culture and marketing through brand-owned museums

From Andy Warhol to Derek Zoolander, how the catwalk became a space for self-branding

The British designer discusses the importance of sculpture, sound and archives to her practice

KK Obi and Jebi Labembika craft a fashion editorial exploring how second-hand clothes have influenced local style

For Phoebe Philo, the legendary artist is a benchmark of style

The designer seeks to empower female and queer bodies by deconstructing garments

How the city’s skateboarders are radically reshaping its fashion landscape

At the Brooklyn Museum, New York, more than 300 items from 1950 to present day capture the global impact of artists from the continent

Sinéad O’Dwyer, Adeju Thompson and Paul Kindersley discuss how their respective practices defy the mainstream

A survey of the artist’s revolutionary drapo flag-making at the Fowler Museum at UCLA situates her within the canon of her craft and country

At Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, the artist’s solo exhibition takes viewers from the desert into the jungle via the ocean

At Kunsthalle Praha, a group exhibition traces bohemian living from post-war Paris to New York, Tehran, Vancouver, Beijing and, finally, Prague

Created as a memorial to suffering, this year’s iteration sees a shift in both the exhibition and the city toward a new historiography

At Barbara Wien, Berlin, the artist reevaluates his love of Leonard Cohen in light of the musician’s stance on Palestine

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

At the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Naarm/Melbourne, the artist’s videos, drawings and found objects engage subversive wordplay and internet culture to undermine gendered, racialized and colonial institutions

At Galleria Massimo Minimi, Brescia, an intervention by Formafantasma celebrates the practice of archiving by looking at how we remember, categorize and read the past