UGLY PLYMOUTHS:
the utopian incoherence of Martine Syms
The Great White Issue, Spring 2011 | Issue 52
fronting
- EDITOR'S LETTER: another chinese century
- RENAISSANCE MAN: Parag Khanna on the next wave of post-national power
- TRIBAL GATHERING: Native Americana and the highland chic at fashion week
- UNITED ILLUMINATIONS: Moritz Waldemeyer sculpts with light
- DENIM HEAVEN: Calvin Klein's still blue for you
- EASTERN STAR: Uma Wang's designs earn domestic bliss
- KIDS IN AMERICA: Tank.tv and Artprojx join forces in New York
- LENS ME YOUR FEARS: Isabella Wing-Davey makes movies that matter
- TREASURE QUEST: Monique Péan's search for sustainable jewellery
- STRANGE FRUIT: the brutal reality of the banana industry
- NEW ROMANTIC: Ms. Min's ancient-modern masterpieces
- DANCE MACABRE: The Pet Shop Boys go to the ballet
- MIU MOVIE: Zoe Cassavetes heads fashion's latest cinematic effort
- TATE MODERN: Thomas Tait's fine art of fashion
- MAO FACTOR: Wang Wen-Hai's potted political leader
features
- BECOMING REAL: Toby Ridler's haunted realm
- STILL CORNERS: dark surrealist pop from beguiling dreamers in touch with the other side
- LIA ICES: the Enya-inspired songstress's elemental second act
- MINKS: tender, tough and beautifully in earnest: a New Yorker's '80s love affair revealed
- EMA: former gowns mistress Erika Anderson talks telekinesis, mass exorcism and ritual nosie
- LIL B: the underage MC with an Odd Future
- THE VILLAGE: The amazing 60-year, 300-town, 220,000-mile photo odyssey of Li Tian-Bing
- INTERIOR LIBERATION: how open-source ideas are reinventing the world of design
- WE WERE ALWAYS: Doha's lesson in Arab art history
- I'M WITH THE BRAND: Is the content king? or just the emperor's new clothes
- COUNTRY LIFE: the farmers filming the realities of rural China
- PEASANTVILLE: Cai Guo-Qiang on the weird and wonderful art of China's rural working class
- HISTORY BOY: Vietnamese-Dutch artist Danh Vo's carefully collected pieces of the past
- THE DREAMER: Liang Qichao and the making of modern China
- ACHES & PAINS: Artist Guo Feng-Yi on bodily agony and visual therapy
- POP EATS ITSELF: Ryan Trecartin makes art for hyper-modern times
- STOP THE WORLD: tales from the fast-track, high-speed madness of the 1990s Chinese art scene
- COUTURE REVOLUTION: A tribute to madame song, the pioneering force of Chinese fashion
- CHANGING ROOMS: Cedric Charlier: at home in the grand house of Cacharel
- WHITE MISCHIEF: pure? yeah, sure. Monochrome heads for dangerous new territory that's anything but neutral
talk
- MICHAEL STIPE: “We’re bratty and loud and brash and stupid and immortal”
- BIANCA JAGGER: “My mother was a very political person; she was my role model”
- ANONYMOUS: “Individuals are not essential to the system”
- DEBORAH CURTIS: “We are at a crisis moment in humanity”
- JON RAFMAN: “I think the internet is the equivalent of Paris in the ’20s”
- PABLO LAFUENTE: “There’s no such thing as full editorial freedom”
- LAPO ELKANN: “In my head, in my soul, in my heart, eyewear is the symbol of vision”
- SAM GRIFFIN: “It was a fascinating project, and all the more interesting because it never actually happened”
- LIU YI-QING: “When I talk, my mind is jumping”
- ZHU HUI: “Success will come; you just need to sit and wait”
- HU XIAO-JIANG: “It’s like your surrounded by lots of tiny universes”
- PIERRE: “We used to toast each other all the time, and down every drink in one”
