A pop quiz with Takashi Murakami
This article is taken from the spring 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Takashi Murakami’s painting “The 500 Arhats”, featuring a solar system, a cross-eyed…
The Must-See Art Shows of 2025
January isn’t even over yet, but the 2025 arts calendar is already filling up fast. A new object-based exhibition at MoMA explores the innovative nature of design, while George Condo’s…
The Insider’s Guide to Paris
Who We asked three Parisian creatives for their musings on the city of light: Lolita Jacobs, an art director and co-founder of the creative agency Jacobs+Talbourdet-Napoleone; Pierre-Marie Agin, a designer…
How Balamii became the hub for London’s creative talent
As the pioneering south London radio station turns ten, founder James Browning looks back at ten landmark moments from its lifespan When Aniefiok Ekpoudom wrote his landmark chronology of rap…
8 Events at Frieze L.A. Art Week You Can’t Miss
Despite the recent fires, Los Angeles has come together for its annual art week, welcoming the international jet set to the Pacific coast for a packed calendar of gallery openings,…
We can’t look away from our split and severed selves
Body horror in The Substance18 Images There’s a scene early on in the film The Substance where Demi Moore’s character, Elisabeth Sparkle, splits down her spine to give birth to…
A brief history of artistic censorship in the US
Donald Trump’s wide-sweeping executive orders are impacting many areas of American life, including the art world. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which distributes cultural funding in the US,…
Shon Faye: ‘Our fantasies of love are a form of addiction’
Shon Faye is the face that launched a thousand projections. Depending on what you want her to be, she is not just a writer but an influencer, an activist (a…
All the Can’t-Miss Art at Mexico City Art Week 2025
This week, collectors, curators, and artists from around the world have descended on Mexico City for its annual art week, which includes homegrown art fairs—such as Zona Maco, the largest…
So you want to grow out your pubes?
The first thing I ever did with my pubic hair was shave it and this remained my only form of pubic hair grooming until my late twenties. Our generation grew…