Art
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Slobodište Memorial Park : a walk through Bogdan Bogdanović’s heavenly war memorial
The realm of Bogdan Bogdanović’s thought-provoking spaces in former Yugoslavia is a feast for the senses,…
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Climbing up the slide : the annoying slang of architecture
Morphologies, programmatic adjacencies, and spatial compositions : it’s all Greek to me, as I take a…
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Quest for the Corn King and the Spring Queen
Scythian pagan rituals may have informed this rarely seen set of monumental sculptures, cast using experimental…
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The Dinosaur Court
London’s fantastical Victorian bestiary of prehistoric creatures remains awe inspiring despite its age A few years…
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Sacred Inspiration : the Church of Agia Foteini Mantineias
In the sunlit Arcadian plain close to the ancient city of Mantineia in Greece, there’s a…
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Modernist Necropolis : a Spartan cemetery
go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie Spartan…
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The Drift : an interview with the Agoraphobic Traveller
“Get out. I need to go to my Mind Palace” Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, S2 :…
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Killing him softly : velvet vandalism on Kyjov’s Lenin statue
“Go and look for the dejected once proud Idol remembered in stone aloud Then on coins…
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The eagle dance of Zeibekiko : an expression of the Greek soul
The unique, soulful Greek dance called Zeibekiko is steeped in folk tradition, has no specified steps…
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Tubular Monuments : the strange allure of basic geometric shapes
“What the fuck are they gonna do with all these tubes? What the hell do they…
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3 hours in Kyiv : rushing through the Ukrainian capital’s complex architecture in wintertime
Be a Socialist Modernism, Brutalism, and World War 2 history fanboy like I am. Be in…
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The Garden of Forgotten Delights : a graveyard for Bulgaria’s old Soviet monuments.
In the outskirts of Sofia, where I found myself one October, there’s a somewhat secret garden…
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Anita and Le Squart at 59 Rue de Rivoli : visiting a renowned Parisian squat dedicated to art
Visiting a renowned Parisian squat dedicated to art
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Barbican Reflections
A celebration of London’s revered brutalist masterpiece through reflections on its blue water pools All images…
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Captivated
when words are not enough, would you let the captions do the talking? I have adored…
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Songs of a Pagan : the imaginary photography of Anne Brigman
It didn’t take long to become captivated by the otherworldly photography of Anne Brigman. Very special…