Culture

The artist Koak is on the rise. Her richly pigmented canvases centre on sinuous figures, cast in heavy shadow or warm lamplight amid everyday domestic settings. Off the canvas, her psyche spills directly into the vast surroundings of her San Francisco studio

Do telephones divide as much as connect us? It’s one of the defining questions of our times – but John Giorno was asking it back in 1968. As John Marchant Gallery presents the artist/poet’s work anew, Sam Moore gives his ringing endorsement

For the latest iteration of the biggest party in the WoI calendar – appropriately, to celebrate our monster October issue – guests confabbed under the canopy of Lanza Atelier’s sinuous pavilion

This rare show is destined to put the pair of Abstract Expressionists on equal footing, shedding light on the formidable Krasner, who helped cultivate her husband’s star-studded image

The founders of Britain’s best collection of cinema memorabilia are urgently casting around for donations in order to secure their home

A new exhibition at the Royal Academy traces the enduring influence of the French Riviera on artists including Cezanne, Monet and Picasso

WoI and Feeld came together after the watershed this week at – where else? – Climax Books in London, to ring in the release of two publications that leave nothing to the imagination

Whether it’s an Eiffel Tower made of horseshoes or safari-style topiary, French outsider artists link arms in a new photo book full of pathos from Francis David

There is little known about the mysterious Émigré potter, Hans Coper. Ahead of a new exhibition of his and Lucie Rie’s work, we look back on a blockbuster sale of their ceramics, along with rarely seen studio shots from the 1950s and 60s by his wife Jane Coper, to fill in a few gaps

From nonagenarian designers and offbeat garment archives to a Brothers Grimm tale and the latest fabric collections, Emily Tobin introduces the October 2026 issue, our biggest of the year

The World of Interiors x Montblanc Writing Open Call 2026 invites all emerging writers to submit 500-word works that explore this year’s theme: Doors & Drawers

Henry Taylor intervenes in the canon of Western art history at Musée National Picasso-Paris, where his works are brought into ever closer proximity with the fabled modernist

Frida Kahlo’s butterfly-based self-portrait is not the dainty trinket it may seem. As Lottie Jackson argues, this talisman invokes the power of mythic warriors in metamorphosis

House parties have a proud history as potent crucibles for everything from flings to artistic coteries – but little is said about how the actual spaces serve to catalyse connections. Keiran Yates raises her red paper cup