felix petty

Review

the black british art renaissance

The Place Is Here at the South London Gallery traces the boundary breaking responses black artists formulated to a racist establishment in the 80s.
Felix Petty
6.23.17
Art

tristan pigott's art satirizes your middle class lifestyle

Meet the rising artist making surrealist, tongue-in-cheek paintings of people riding the subway and eating spaghetti.
Felix Petty
6.7.17
Berlin

how wolfgang tillmans become one of the defining photographers of his generation

As his second Tate retrospective draws to a close this weekend, award-winning artist, photographer, and musician Wolfgang Tillmans reflects on the politics, photography, and musical endeavors that have defined the last fifteen years of his career.
Felix Petty
6.5.17
Art

​how alice neel's paintings captured the diversity and beauty of harlem

Charting 50 years of the black painter’s career and the breadth of humanity she encountered.
Felix Petty
5.26.17
Fashion

​walter pfeiffer: spirit, freedom, and beauty

As he opens a new exhibition in Paris and unveils new work in the pages of i-D, we sit down with the inimitable Swiss photographer to talk about a career spent capturing youth, and why photography is all about being able to see beautiful things.
Felix Petty
10.18.16
Culture

peter de potter on the symbolism of nudity, the speed of images online, and the power of silence

As he releases his first monograph, the Belgian cut-and-paste collage maestro opens up in a wide ranging conversation about the state of today.
Felix Petty
10.14.16
Fashion

​judy blame's riot de-luxe

As Judy Blame launches a new zine to mark the end of his ICA retrospective, we present a peek inside it’s anarchic pages and catch up with the man himself, the inimitable riotous spirit behind much of what makes fashion great.
Felix Petty
9.15.16
Culture

pioneering photographer alice springs shot america's subcultures through a female lens

June Newton, aka Alice Springs (and the wife of Helmut Newton), is one of the unsung spirits of female photography.
Felix Petty
9.2.16
Fashion

inside kiev’s underground fashion revolution

To coincide with Ukrainian Independence Day and 25 years since the fall of the USSR, Ukrainian fashion designer Anton Belinskiy staged a project that united the city’s young designers, musicians, and artists to launch his spring/summer 17 collection...
Felix Petty
8.31.16
Fashion

inez van lamsweerde discusses the power of the female lens

As she captures Adwoa Aboah for i-D's Female Gaze Issue, we meet the pioneering photographer to talk about 30 years of creating iconic imagery.
Felix Petty
8.22.16
Art

examining the seismic changes to europe's political landscape through art

As a new show at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven opens, exhibiting art made in six European countries during the tumultuous 80s, we contemplate culture and counterculture as a litmus test for a country's political climate.
Felix Petty
7.11.16
Culture

revisiting the past and anticipating the future with matthew stone

As his new exhibition opens at Somerset House, we catch up with the artist to talk about his new paintings, old statements and cross-cultural operating.
Felix Petty
7.7.16
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