Big Bang Data at London’s Somerset House

Artists' inventive and strange ways to analyze their personal world and the universe around us

Do you know where your cat lives? You probably do and, if you ever tagged it #cat in a publicly available photo online, chances are so does Owen Mundy. Mundy is the artist behind the project “I Know Where Your Cat Lives” and one of the people taking part in “Big Bang Data”—on show now at London’s Somerset House. Through the eyes of a number …

SideStory City Tours, London

Different guided adventures like insight into London's graffiti and street art

It’s a freezing Monday morning in London and commuters hurry past, heading to the warmth of the Bethnal Green tube station, as Karim Samuels introduces the history of graffiti and the artistic legacy of East London by pointing out stickers covered in tags. It’s the beginning of a thorough three-hour tour with the London-based graffiti writer and expert, who is one of SideStory’s insiders. Samuels, …

Loyle Carner: Ain’t Nothing Changed

The genuine, poignant way in which Loyle Carner executes his dynamic rhymes—which don’t shy away from being personal and direct (“Of course I’m fucking sad / I miss my fucking dad”)—has completely taken ahold of our hearts. His music video for the saxophone-infused, mellow track “Ain’t Nothing Changed” shows the young UK rapper made up as an elderly man (fun fact: Carner went to school …