Skateboarder SEAN PABLO is a cryptic character. Some question his personality, others his sex life. He has interdisciplinarily manifested his work in the form of his independent fashion brand, post-punk music, Converse sneakers, as well as cunning skating. SAMUEL HYLAND spoke to Sean about haters, the art of seduction, and making a comeback.

Hitting theaters this week, INSIDE stars WILLEM DAFOE as an art thief marooned in a collector's Manhattan penthouse after a heist goes wrong. Fighting to survive in a modern and contemporary hellscape, he begins to create himself – and becomes "more human" in the process. "You've got to destroy something to have something be born again," Dafoe told VICTORIA CAMBLIN ahead of the release, in a conversation on Tarkovsky and time.

KATHARINA KORBJUHN’s predictions for this year are that Elon Musk will drop out of Twitter and that we will soon not care about TikTok anymore. The founder of Paradigm, a limited series of three theme-driven issues, posits her magazine as a guide to a new creative practice seeking to locate the true power and purpose behind cultural production. Do social media platforms “fucking suck,” or do they just need a rebrand?

“On Instagram, you eat and eat till you’re so full you have to stop. And then five minutes later, you’re hungry again.” Liz Johnson Artur has dedicated her life to capturing and preserving memories while building an ever-evolving archive. She manufactures tangible memories and connects with people using photography to investigate and engage with others. In conversation with Katja Horvat, the two discuss Johnson Artur’s greatest fear and how the word “soul” sums up the artist’s oeuvre.

“Compared to AI, the Metaverse is so visually unexciting to me. It’s basically The Sims.” Luke Nugent’s AI work, which celebrates alternative definitions of beauty and the lifestyles of people on the margins, depicts subcultures of the past and present—real and imagined. The “shoots” he makes using the controversial text-to-image AI software, Midjourney, have bewitched audiences and the algorithm.

To celebrate the opening of “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK,” we invited some of our favorites for a night of drinks (thanks Belvedere) and beats (thanks BABY B3NS, DJ MIURA, and RIOTBUTT). Click here to see what personalities and 032c faithful showed out at Charlottenburg’s Provocateur.

Garments are beliefs to be worn. Stories are told through sartorial tissues, and fashion is carried inside us. The group exhibition “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich and including works by Tom Burr, Jesse Darling, Lewis Hammond, Lukas Heerich, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Michel Majerus, Kayode Ojo, and Ryan Trecartin opens on February 10, 2023 at 032c WORKSHOP in Berlin Charlottenburg.

Borrowing from the Latin phrase meaning "mode of living" or "way of life," the title of 070 Shake's debut album "Modus Vivendi" has resulted in a slew of accolades for the quickly rising star. The term for which the title is named is often used to denote an agreement between disparate forces, allowing them to coexist in peace. The title seems apt, considering 070 Shake sits at the center of a universe of her own making, where powerful songwriting and intimate insights into the artist's inner emotions work in tandem rather than in opposition.

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"Eat the rich" will certainly not make you friends in Gstaad — the infamous holiday destination for wealthy royalty and celebrities. GSTAAD GUY, however, is at an ambiguous intersection of belonging to the exclusive circle while simultaneously mocking it. He has made a business out of the latter, letting his fictional characters, Constance and Colton, do the satiric work for him. BRENDA WEISCHER talked to Gstaad Guy about his oxymoronic collaborations with Loro Piana and Philipp Plein, his former full-time corporate job, and building friendships by mimicking people.

Each one of the silly-surreal crash-edits, also known as innovative filmmaking distributed on TikTok, is a great-great-
grandchild of what JEAN-LUC GODARD introduced in À bout de souffle, argues SHUMON BASAR. In his eulogy to the pioneer of French New Wave — and cinema in general — Basar explores some chapters of the director’s grand oeuvre.