Pattern Recognition at MoCADA

A class of young, multidisciplinary artists break the norm with a show of ideological and aesthetic patterns in contemporary abstraction

Coming from a background in marketing, Dexter Wimberly isn’t afraid of a hard sell. Since moving to the art world as an independent curator, Wimberly has worked to discover and promote talent that is breaking new ground. Endlessly seeking out new names, the curator admits, “Not a week goes by that I don’t talk to an artist that I didn’t know last week.” So when …

Nikon Coolpix A

We put the powerful point-and-shoot to the test at Chef Daniel Burns' new restaurant Luksus

Thanks to Instagram, in 2013 everybody is a food photographer. The plethora of filters the social app provides has undoubtedly contributed to making culinary still lifes more visually intriguing, but it’s done little to heighten the medium of photography itself. Nikon aims to improve this with their recently-released Coolpix A, a compact point-and-shoot that packs a large APS-C sensor (typically used in their D-SLR cameras) …

99 Problems by Ali Graham

An illustrated journey through Jay-Z's numerable troubles

Inspired by Jay-Z’s track “99 Problems,” British artist Ali Graham has been creating an illustration every day since the first of June this year that imagines a problem the world-famous rapper might (or might not) face. As well as a host of First World problems many city-dwellers also face—such as running out of phone battery or toilet paper—there are plenty of Jay-Zisms that fans of …