Laura Bannister, Author at Museum

Art On found objects, mapping and soft topologies

Artist Kate Scardifield’s upcoming show at UTS Gallery elicits pleasure in the generation of new connections and the repurposing of historical tools.

Art Notes on chance encounters

Presented at LOEWE’s celebrated Miami Design District store—a space built entirely around an 18th-century granary from Portugal—is the LOEWE FOUNDATION’s third Chance Encounters exhibition, a cross-pollination of different art forms.

From the issue The coral in Miami

Meet rogue scientists, activists and artists Coral Morphologic.

From the issue Fast forward—at maximum speed—to 1972

Unveiling Issue 8, our most ambitious yet, devoted to a single year in recent history.

Fashion A history of the world (in four pairs of jeans)

The G-Star RAW Elwood X25 denim collection has 25 new treatments, each of which feels like a mirror held to mankind.

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The big clunk

Shoes by Hermès

Art The other moderns—an alternative history

We review the new tome on Sydney’s forgotten European design legacy.

Art “They started feeling more like objects than paintings”—Kate Tucker. Supported by Calvin Klein

New perspectives on painting from the former designer-turned-artist.

Art Goodreads

Five art booksellers and publishers select their favourite in-stall titles ahead of VOLUME | Another Art Book Fair.

From the issue Nari Ward and the poetry of meaning

“I didn’t want to ignore the popular slogan ‘Make America Great Again.’”

From the issue Museum launches Issue 7, in collaboration with BALLY

It was floor-to-ceiling, hand-constructed cardboard boxes and a cardboard-tiled floor, plus a 2-hour reel of archival documentary footage.

From the issue Get to work

A first look at Museum Issue 7.

Fashion Melbourne, Dior

Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark Christian Dior womenswear exhibition, we talk to the gallery’s senior curator of fashion and textiles, Katie Somerville.

Art Ashley Bickerton at Newport Street Gallery, London

Peter Hill—artist, writer, curator and academic—files his thoughts on a Bali-based artist and his new London show.

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Bag-not-bag

A pint-sized backpack by Furla

From the issue Flesh on the waterfront

Leonard Fink’s exultant photographs of cruising men—including two that never made it to our print issue.

Art Museum’s picks of Frieze New York 2017

Our post-fair roundup of the best on show at Randall’s Island.

Fashion Stitch-up

Unisex label Jac+ Jack release a one-time project of hand-darned sweaters, each purposefully mismatched.

From the issue Symposium

In Museum’s sixth edition, we commissioned Gladys Perint Palmer to illustrate portraits of a lexicographer, curator, artist and baker.

From the issue Gillian Wearing and her masks

As the National Portrait Gallery in London shows ‘Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask another mask,’ Museum’s editor talks identity, performance and reality television with Wearing herself.

From the issue Smell-O-Vision: a doomed romance

Wendy Syfret on the fractured, often sad history of Smell-O-Vision: the technology that never quite was.

From the issue I never forget a face

The new edition of Museum has arrived.

Fashion Burberry, immediately

Museum presents a livestream of Burberry’s Henry Moore-inspired February collection, held at Maker’s House in London.

Fashion A talking head

In this interview short, Belgian designer Kris van Assche discusses HARDIOR.

Music “We’re definitely tourists in the fashion world”

One whole hour spent with The xx.

From the issue Guan Wei on art and fear

"I believe that explaining the origins and mechanisms that drive fear can help us alleviate it."

From the issue On rhinoplasty, eugenics and the strange mythos of the nose

Writer Monica Uszerowicz wrestles—and makes peace—with her nose.

Art Noses know bread

Museum held an intimate party at Infinity Bakery in Paddington to celebrate the launch of Issue 5, in partnership with G.H. Mumm, Stoneleigh, Sample, Sanpellegrino, S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna.

Art Marian Tubbs, in conversation

“Even if I am dealing with discarded materials, this is not a rejection of other objects, but rather an engagement with the underdogs.”

Art Everything’s coming up noses

Delve inside the fifth edition of Museum, in which every page relates to the nose.

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