“The world needs unique perspectives. Keep pushing boundaries, keep pursuing your passion, because when you do, your dreams move within reach.”

Ajus Samuel
is the star of Issue 2

Turner Prize 2025: Meet the artists shaping Britain’s visual culture

This year’s Turner Prize nominees mix the personal, the political and the dream-like, at the annual British visual art prize, currently on show at Cartwright Hall in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dominique Heyse-Moore meets the artists.

By Dominique Heyse-Moore

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ISSUE 2, WINTER 2025

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Matt Jones’s Miami exhibition is a love letter to humanity

Matt Jones’s one-night installation An Unanticipated Delight opens at Miami Art Basel this Friday. Set to a curated soundtrack that…

Cynthia Erivo’s memoir Simply More charts the making of a remarkable talent

Simply More traces the star’s journey through racism, exclusion, queerness and radical honesty to reveal the woman behind one of…

The Books That Make a Room

Our selection of new coffee table books will awaken the reader’s imagination and spark endless conversation.

Inside the book reframing Black identity in modern Spain

Sergio Pontier celebrates the unsung beauty of Afro-Spanish identity in Spain.

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s Parliament of Ghosts Comes to London

As the first exhibition in Ibraaz, a new cultural space, it is an invitation to dialogue and repair.

Faith and the Black experience: the art of Tyler Ballon

American artist Tyler Ballon’s larger-than-life oil paintings fuse his Catholic upbringing with his experience of life as a Black man.…

72 HOURS WITH…
French writer CAMILLE CHARRIÈRE

In the first episode of our new series 72 Hours With… we join Camille Charrière at Rosewood London and The Chancery Rosewood as she puts the finishing touches to her debut book, Ashamed: A Memoir in Essays.

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THE MODERN FACE

We asked six of today’s most exciting makeup talents to create a modern face.

A tribute to British beauty, style and rebellion

Starring Edie Campbell, Jeny Howorth, Naomi Campbell, Neelam Gill and more.

Marc Jacobs on his bedtime rituals

The American fashion designer shares his typical nighttime run-of-show

View Finder: Jude Lartey

On Ghana’s coast, photographer Jude Lartey documents a community in motion

Hairstylist Jawara has the magic touch

Jawara. Like Beyoncé, Naomi, Rihanna — one name is all you need. The New York born, Jamaican raised hairstylist has…

My Space

Sarah Harris visits 11 notable names in the spaces that ground them.

Julia Roberts Gets Candid With Close Friend George Clooney

Read excerpts from their conversation

What is Couture in a Digital Age?

Anders Christian Madsen meets five modern couturiers.

“The world needs unique perspectives. Keep pushing boundaries, keep pursuing your passion, because when you do, your dreams move within reach.” Ajus Samuel is the star of Issue 2