The End: A post-apocalyptic musical about race, class and first love
With 2012’s The Act of Killing and 2014’s The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer directed two of the most powerful documentaries of all time. So powerful, in fact, the American…
Huda Kattan on fear, her new podcast, and the politics of beauty
Huda Kattan knows her way around a high-shine formula, but when it comes to life, she doesn’t gloss over a thing. “I don’t have it all figured out and I…
London’s creatives share their guide to the city
This article is taken from the spring 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Friends Are Always Welcomed (FAAW) is a London-based creative production company redefining…
Gary Stevenson, the former trader taking on the billionaire class
A Citibank prodigy turned whistleblower, YouTuber and ‘equitable economist’, Gary Stevenson is taking his knowledge of inequality to the masses Sat in a slouchy, dark hoodie on Zoom, fresh off…
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…
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…
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…
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…