London’s Frieze Art Fair with Clay Ketter

A tour of the show, complete with insights from one of our favorite artists

This year Cool Hunting was fortunate enough to have the artist Clay Ketter as our companion at London’s Frieze Art Fair. Ketter is well known for his post-minimalist work that questions our relationship with everyday domestic objects through construction and fabrication techniques, and we have been fans of his for some time. His photo series “Gulf Coast Slabs“—which documented the destruction of homes after Hurricane …

Brutal, London

Lazarides and The Vinyl Factory present the tough stuff in a crumbling basement in London

This year’s annual off-site Lazarides exhibition is brutal by name and by nature; hosted in a derelict modernist building in central London. The basement of 180 Strand has reached a state of dilapidation that requires navigating piles of rubble, holes in the floors and walls, and smashed up bathrooms. This space makes the previous underground location of choice—The Old Vic Tunnels—look positively luxurious with its …

David Reuben: “Kings & Corpses”

The British painter's colorful yet macabre US gallery debut

On 22 October, fine artist and filmmaker David King Reuben will make his US debut at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea, NYC. The show will feature his large-scale, figure-focused paintings paired with photographer Dominic White‘s black and white photos. Reuben’s engrossing work swells with color trapped within form. Highly textured; with layered oil, acrylic and spray-paint on canvas, there’s an abundance of life in …