Joshua Light Show + Inherent Vice at the Ace, Shoreditch

A stunning, psychedelic installation at the London hotel that encourages visitors to zone out and dream

A kaleidoscope of swirling, colorful shapes move up, down and around the windows of The 100 Room at Shoreditch’s Ace Hotel. The shapes come together and float apart, creating bubbles and cascading color explosions that look like fungi and haemoglobin, fireworks and underwater flowers. All the while, a suggestive, dreamlike soundtrack sets the mood for the ever-changing color display designed by the Joshua Light Show, …

Björk: Vulnicura

Fans were surprised with a two-month early official release of Björk’s new album Vulnicura (her first since 2011’s Biophilia) after it was leaked online. The experimental Icelandic artist describes her ninth studio album as a “complete heartbreak album that documents the “emotional chronology” of her own personal breakup from beginning to end: “the wound and a healing of a wound.” Björk has also announced a …

Arts Recommendations from The Mirror Cube

A site dedicated to music, film and artistic happenings, as recommended by an array of working artists

Perhaps no one knows the music, film and art scenes better than those within them. Communities form and flourish, and engage other active creators. Highly collaborative art leads to highly connected scenes with an escalated awareness of what’s working and what’s good. That’s the idea behind The Mirror Cube, a new website that documents and promotes independent art events based upon the recommendation of artists …