The year in culture: body horror to the Blitz club revisited
Top 10 culture stories of 2024, as chosen by Hannah Silver Wallpaper* Year in review: top 10 culture fixes of the year, as chosen by art & culture editor Hannah Silver
The year in culture: body horror to the Blitz club revisited
Top 10 culture stories of 2024, as chosen by Hannah Silver
Year in review: top 10 culture fixes of the year, as chosen by art & culture editor Hannah Silver
It’s been a bumper year on the Wallpaper* culture desk – here are some of the highlights, from The Substance and its ‘body horror’ to London's Blitz club revisited, and art futurists in Nairobi
01. Miranda July considers fantasy and performance at Fondazione Prada, Milan
The artist, whose work explores the unpredictable, strange, joyous and heartbreaking turns life can take, spoke to us about her exhibition ‘New Society’, charting 30 years of her career
02. Remembering Rusty Egan’s Blitz club: a place to ‘avoid the mob and the homophobes’, where the New Romantics were born
Wallpaper* met DJ Rusty Egan to talk about London's scene-building Blitz club – the antidote to the late 1970s punk scene and a hot-bed of experimental fashion
03. ‘She made me feel like I could, and should, be myself’: SOPHIE’s friends and collaborators on her enduring legacy
As fans of the late, boundary-breaking electronic music producer and artist were gifted a last, posthumous album completed by her loved ones, music critic El Hunt reflected on her remarkable legacy
04. Lars Tunbjörk’s uncanny office photography is revisited in a new book
First published in 2001 and long since sold out, Office is revisited by the publisher Loose Joints, released with a second volume shot in Los Angeles, the previously unpublished LA Office
Nearly a decade after Davis’ passing, a touring retrospective – heading to London and Los Angeles in 2025 – sets out to bring the American painter’s work to a wider audience
08. The Substance may be grotesque, but it is not body horror
Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore feature film was quickly granted the moniker ‘body horror’, due its visceral imagery and mutations of the body. Our reviewer saw things differently
09. Art futurists go in search of micro-utopias in Nairobi
‘Hakuna Utopia? In Search of Micro-Utopias’ saw Nairobi-based art collective Kairos Futura harness visions of the future to provoke change; artist Ajax Axe told us more
