Explore a selection of written and visual works, from essays to collections of poetry and photography books, that inspired Grace Wales Bonner’s Rhapsody In The Street, our 22nd issue.
An Evening Divining the Future
Discover the launch of FUTURA PROXIMA at an exhibition of new works throughout the ornate salons of Galerie Gismondi, Paris.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on A Yearning That Floats
The American photographer details the process and inspirations behind his contemplative portraiture series featured in A Magazine Curated By Grace Wales Bonner.
Raf Simons speaks inside Glenn Sestig: Architecture Diary
The acclaimed Belgian architect’s monograph is an invitation to visit spaces of material depth and raw distinction. In an online exclusive, his collaborator Raf Simons shares insight into their creative partnership over the years.
FUTURA PROXIMA CURATED FOR GUCCI
A spiral-bound, perforated ‘calendar’ magazine exploring 12 months with 12 artists divining the future through their thinking and their craft, conceived on the occasion of Gucci’s 100-year anniversary.
Dancehall Queens Past Present Future
A conversation between Marlon James and Akeem Smith, featured in A#22 Curated By Grace Wales Bonner, the excerpt examines Dancehall and its birthplace of Jamaica
An evening with Grace Wales Bonner & Samuel Fosso
Discover the exhibition SAMUEL FOSSO at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Autoportraits II (Fosso Fashion 2021) by Samuel Fosso
A new series by the Cameroonian photographer featured inside A#22 Curated By Grace Wales Bonner.
Domenico Gnoli at Fondazione Prada, Milan
A career-defining, posthumous survey of the Italian painter’s scintillating oeuvre is now on show at Fondazione Prada, Milan.
D.I.Y. Butterfly
Discover the NFT artwork collaboration between Vanille Verloës and Dylan Da Silva inspired by the ‘D.I.Y. Sock Sweater’ project published inside A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela, 2004.
Social Works II, London
A conversation with Gagosian director Antwaun Sargent at Frieze London 2021 unpacking his exhibition exploring the dimensions of space within the context of the African diaspora.
A MAGAZINE CURATED BY GRACE WALES BONNER
Entitled Rhapsody In The Street, A#22 responds to the tradition of Black poetry, literature and portrait photography of the 20th century, featuring a curation of archival portfolios and other historical ephemera, as well as newly commissioned essays, poems, paintings and portraits.
Backstage in Tokyo, Spring Summer 2022
An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the Comme des Garçons Spring Summer 2022 collections in Tokyo, Japan, photographed by Noam Levinger.
Harland Miller’s “French Letter Paintings”
An audience with Harland Miller at his latest exhibition in the new White Cube viewing rooms in Paris. The artist discusses his new works, his experiences at school in York, England, and life in Paris in the 1990s.
Danh Võ at Massimo De Carlo, Milan
With room for transcendence, Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Võ takes us on an unchartered journey through Casa Corbellini-Wassermann, the Piero Portaluppi-designed Massimo De Carlo Gallery in Milan.
In Venice, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino Haute Couture ‘Des Ateliers’
A#20 curator Pierpaolo Piccioli incited a monumental artistic dialogue for the Valentino Haute Couture AW2021-22 collection, inviting 15 artists to create garments directly linked with works of contemporary art.
Christopher Smith’s Surreal Self-Portraiture is on show at Acne Studios’ new Paris address
Before its unexpected return, Acne Paper’s past themes are reimagined by the South African art photographer in a series of self-portraits in Paris.
Emerging from the Primordial Soup, Again: An interview between Alice Bucknell and DEEP
At the Russian Federation Pavilion in Venice, the American writer and artist Alice Bucknell’s film Swamp City imagines the Florida Everglades as a luxury nature resort for high-tech eco-tourism in a near future reality of severe climate disruption.