The Nasty Selection / Around Frieze
As Frieze takes over London, we look beyond the fair to the exhibitions and ideas shaping the city’s cultural landscape. From art and fashion to rock heritage and underground scenes, London has a long history of turning the unconventional into cultural influence. With spooky season in the air, we celebrate the artists, images and rebellious spirits that give the city its distinctive edge. Through ten selected exhibitions and artistic projects, we follow the NASTY instinct for the unexpected work that sparks curiosity, unsettles the familiar and stays with you long after you leave.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyJeff Mills Brings Techno to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Audio Obscura’s film sees the Detroit techno pioneer reinterpret Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece through original music and dance at the Rijksmuseum, premiering on October 21, 2026, with public screenings from October 22 to 25 during ADE.
Music | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyThe Symbols We Become / Tarot
Symbols outlive the worlds that created them. They leave traces. They accumulate meanings. They mutate. Tarot is one of those surviving languages, carrying Renaissance allegory, occultism, surrealism and contemporary mythology inside the same images. The Morgan Library follows those mutations across six centuries. But beneath the cards there is a deeper question: why do we keep returning to old symbols to imagine new versions of ourselves?
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/by Editor NastyLady Godiva
Remembering and forgetting, the day passes slowly. Then we slept until the world forgot our names. Nicole photographed by Benedetta Pionati.
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/by Editor NastySound and Vision / Nick Zinner
Somewhere between noise and image, the stage and the street, rock’n’roll and the early-2000s New York scene: a world where bands, artists, clubs and chaos collided. A guitar pushed beyond its clean sound: dark, brittle, distorted at the edges. Zinner’s photographs carry the same impulse, moving through faces, rooms, streets and bodies, caught somewhere between clarity and disappearance.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by Editor NastyGirls Like Angels / CLOUDY
At ten years old, Claudia bought a piano with the first money she had saved herself. Years later, performing as CLOUDY, she still speaks about music with that same sense of ownership. Music cover story shot by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.
Music | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyWelcome to the Pony Club / Ocean Savage
A childhood spent riding horses in the South of England becomes the starting point for Ocean Savage’s FW26 collection. In New York, the rules change: riding uniforms become streetwear, old symbols become new codes, and the Pony Club becomes something you can enter, wear and carry with you.
Fashion | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyBody Talks
Who gets to own the meaning of a body? The problem was never simply the naked body. It was always who gets to decide what that body means. Exclusive editorial starring porn star Puma Swede, with an article written by María Muñoz Martínez. Photographed in Stockholm by Ninja Hanna with creative direction by Sanna Fried.
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/by Editor NastyUnder A New Moon / Voodoo Village 2026
Under a New Moon, Voodoo Village turned a Belgian forest into a temporary world of music, nature and altered perception. For three days, Kasteel van Humbeek became a place to step outside the usual rhythm of life and listen to something deeper.
Music | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyA Question Of Lust / Shannon Cartier Lucy
“Painting allows me to stay with things that are contradictory, unresolved, or difficult to explain.” In a time when the bizarre has become almost ordinary, what does it mean to remain genuinely other? A conversation that moves through the layers of normality and the authenticity of the absurd. Together with the artist, we question whether art can interrupt our habits of perception.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by Editor NastyThe Last Days of Summer
The sun burns through our sense of time. Muse Svetlana in vibrant memories of the past summer in Bali, photographed in film by Kasia Sasinowska.
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/by Editor NastyDead air
After dark, familiar spaces begin to feel unfamiliar. Silence fills the space, leaving everything else unspoken. Photographed by James Morris, with styling by Claudia Nicolosi.
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/by Editor NastyA Sound Without Expectations / Øneheart
Øneheart moves beyond the atmospheric sound that defined him, opening up to new genres, shifting influences and a side of himself kept hidden for years.
Music | Interview
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/by Editor NastyRuins of Grace
Time has taken almost everything. We return to the silence and let the night fall where it will. A fashion story by Ricardo Ramirez, styled by Lisa Tufo and Gia Hasenfratz.
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/by Editor NastyThe Brief Unseen / Anri Sala
For Sala, the experience of entering a world that had once been inaccessible became inseparable from the question of how we perceive and understand it. Growing up in Albania under communism and later arriving in Paris, he encountered a plethora of unfamiliar artistic forms, as well as an entirely different set of lenses through which to make sense of the world. That tension between the known and the newly imaginable continues to run through his practice. Across sound, image, language, material and time, Sala explores the spaces between perception and intuition, intention and accident, the tangible and the immaterial. His works ask us to question and dissolve the reality of what we see and hear, and what might exist in the interval between them.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by Editor NastyFaking Life
Reality begins to slip behind familiar doors while everyday rooms become places to rehearse another life. Photographed by Jesse Herzog.
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/by Editor NastyDid Youth Culture End in 2000? / Mark Leckey
From acid house to SoundCloud, religion, archives and AI, this conversation asks a simple question: Where does youth culture exist when everything is already online? Read our cover conversation with Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey.
Music | Interview
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/by Editor NastyA Pain, Hidden And Unyielding
Pain survives the storm. Concrete, hosiery, bandages, mud, hair and lashes give physical weight to wounds that remain private yet refuse to stay buried. A series by WanJin.
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/by Editor NastyWet Dreams Again
What happens when red lights turn the room into a closed circuit of desire. Second part of the glamorous-spicy series photographed by Marco Del Borrello.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyMorpheus
Sometimes we feel like torn feathers drifting through black air, disappearing far away from what we are. A fashion story by Habib Achcar and Miguel Herrera.
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/by Editor NastyInto The Night / Barbara Hoogeweegen
London, a 19th-century townhouse, ambiguity and abstraction. The artist presents her exhibition as an escape from reality, or perhaps as a gateway to the forget land of emotion. Everything is allowed: a lucid dream immersed in half-light. On view until September 23 ((open daily 12 – 6pm or by appointment).
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyWoven Stories / Manusama Nuance
Some stories simply must be woven by hand. A meditation on identity, memory and self-expression, tracing the process of becoming through the act of creation. Presentation of the fashion movie by Mirjam Manusama -creator and mind behind the brand- and director/cinematographer Ottilie Maters, with Trip to the Moon Films.
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/by adminBirds
Every form of protection leaves a fingerprint. Birds unfolds through four species: the pigeon, the raven, the swan and the falcon; each carrying a different contract with human desire: rejected, worshipped, preserved, trained to return.
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/by Editor NastyAgainst The Delusion / Mikhail Borzykin
Forbidden pages, passed hand to hand, with only days to read before they moved on. Borzykin has been writing that way ever since. What follows is his own account of how the bleakest record he ever made turned out to work as medicine, not poison.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by Editor NastyLiquid Diamonds
We are water wearing the shape of a stone, and the shape keeps slipping. Shine once, then give it all back to the surface. A fashion story by Esther Galván starring Thaisa Rodrigues.
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/by Editor NastyShapeshifters
Molting in a darkened room. The color dries faster than my form changes, by morning the sun finds a stranger wearing my own skin. A beauty series shot by Eileen Aolani.
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/by Editor NastyThe Maiden In Armour
The body remains exposed but never surrendered, each strap deciding what can be seen and how close the gaze is allowed to come. Photographed by Josh Showell.
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/by Editor NastySoundscapes vol.12 / Silent Servant
Organised emotional response to isolation, selected by the American techno DJ and producer John Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant.
Music | Soundscapes
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.8 / Fecal Matter
A selection for peace and tranquility by Fecal Matter: Hannah Rose Dalton & Steven Raj Bhaskaran of the Montreal-based art-fashion duo with an otherworldly aesthetic.
Music | Soundscapes
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/by adminThe Counterculture Of Counterculture / Antipop 2026
Twenty years in and the name changed back. ANTIPOP is what Neopop was called when it started in 2006. Pereira changed it in 2009, when the project took a different shape. Bringing it back now — one edition, no ambiguity — is the festival saying out loud what every choice it's made has been saying quietly for years.
Music | Highlights
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/by Editor NastySoundscapes vol.103 | Stingray 313
A selection from Detroit born, Berlin based Sherard Ingram aka DJ Stingray 313 one of the strongest presence in the world of techno for over twenty years now who's focus is playing and producing futuristic, science & technology oriented tracks.
Music | Soundscapes
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/by adminSama’ AbdulHadi / Sound Escape
In conversation with Sama’ AbdulHadi, the Palestinian DJ delves into the controversies about being a global artist and at the same time profoundly attached to her origins, supporting her heritage’s music scene. Coming along with a selection of some of her preferred tracks of the moment by some of her favorite producers for our latest Soundscapes release.
Music | Soundscapes
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/by adminThe Pulse We Shared / Stone Festival
In the heart of Essen, amidst the remnants of an industrial past and the vibrant energy of the present, Stone Techno Festival organised by The Third Room collective took place. This event is more than just music; it’s a collective ritual blending history, technology, and underground culture. Three intense days in a place steeped in memory, where every beat tells a story and every sound becomes part of a unique experience
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