In this first episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, join the legendary fashion master of avant-garde gothic elegance Rick Owens as he lies on the couch while Bella asks him leading questions from her analyst's chair. Rick Owens is known for his preoccupation…

What happens when our memories, psyche, and future all exist in today’s cloud, a forecasting machine?

David Cronenberg is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Credited with creating the body horror genre, Cronenberg has written and directed over twenty feature films including Videodrome, Dead Ringers, and Rabid, with his 1996 film Crash winning the…

Designed by the legendary Charles and Ray Eames, the Eames House is one of the most celebrated mid-century buildings in the world. For the latest episode of flagship architecture series In Residence, Nowness gained exclusive access to this light-filled two…

A TABI FILM: A film directed by Yuri Ancarani offering an in-depth look at the craftmanship of the Maison Margiela Tabi, introduced in 1989 at our first show.

The film traces the journey of a pair of Tabi from concept to final assembly. In an artisanal…

Born in Miami to Haitian parents, American multidisciplinary artist Woody De Othello works across ceramic, bronze, and wood to animate the inanimate, transforming everyday objects into vessels of emotion and memory. Living and working in the San Francisco…

The Swedish rapper Yung Lean emerged more than a decade ago as a teenage internet sensation who found viral — and then — global fame. After struggling with mental illness, drugs, alcohol and tragedy, he’s back now and bigger than ever, with new music, a new…

The world is going nuts these days. People yearn for a mental break. What happens when we ask ChatGPT to be our therapist? It's cheap, accessible, quick. Nothing could possibly go wrong... until it does. So, what's the alternative?

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Since the dawn of times, money has been flying around everywhere. In the 21st century, humans exchange this universal currency through credit cards, buy now pay later schemes, tap to pay, etc. But just within the last decade, India chooses to pay with QR…

In this intimate conversation, visionary Jefferson Hack meets with icon Tilda Swinton to reflect on her ever-expanding artistic legacy, shaped by creative relationships that continue to redefine the boundaries of cinema.

Swinton meditates on the alchemy…

Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance.

A consortium of journalists is revealing how the industry influences governments in Latin America and globally.

On the small island of Awashima in Japan, a shuttered post office has become a resting place for undelivered letters. Inviting words to the dead, to future selves, and to lives that turned another way, letters with no onward journey fall into the hands of…

What does Japan’s electronic music scene really sound like?
Jonas spent three weeks in Tokyo and Kyoto exploring record stores, synth shops, community radios, and underground clubs: on a mission to understand what makes Japan’s music culture so unique and…

An artist talk in a book.

Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene – an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century her continuous…

AT Proto lets you build social features without running any backend. The user authenticates, you write a record to their repo, Constellation indexes it, and anyone can query those backlinks. The data lives with the users. Your website is just a view.

Read the full text of Design Harder, a book by Erik Carter, as an interactive website. Published by Book Ideas, Design Harder examines design’s cultural and ethical challenges through seven interconnected essays that reframe the discipline’s future.

Constructing a visual essay around the concept of balance, director Nacho Errando reflects on four distinct elements that represent its influence for the short film The Idea of Balance. Merging playful poetry and visual language, Errando considers the presence…