New music, clothes with a point of view, images worth looking at and the people building culture.
PHOTO: DOROTA KOLAROVA / DESIGN: BARBORA NECPALOVÁ / NOOF PRESS KITFlock, Folk, Field follows wool back to the hands, animals and places behind it.
Read the story →Artwork and audio via Mansur Brown’s official Bandcamp player.
PEOPLE / MUSIC / LONDONAurora is here. Give the full record the time you would give a single.
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PLANQ changes the material behind a familiar form with BAKKIE.
Read the story →Artwork and audio via Elusive’s official Bandcamp player.
MUSIC / PRODUCERS / LOS ANGELESEight tracks. Jazz instrumentation. A producer still finding new routes through his own language.
Read the story →Before the runway photographs arrive, look at the work behind the clothes.
Read the story →The LagosPhoto network brings questions of borders, memory and belonging into the gallery and beyond it.
Read the story →A steel percussion system, three drummers and a night that connects Kampala to Amsterdam.
Read the story →Stay for the second conversation.
Read the story →The October 24 Design Safaris tour visits the studios of Joël Mamboka, Driaan Claassen and Michael Beckurts. Departs 53 Church Street at 10:00; R450, booking required, maximum eight guests.
Official programme ↗STURDY MAGAZINE NOTE: The exhibition brings together work by Mohamad Abdouni, Myriam Boulos, Sabiha Çimen and others without compressing distinct practices into one regional story.
Gallery program ↗Dani has the songs, the images and the point of view. STURDY pays attention while the world around the music is still becoming.
Read STURDY’s profile → STURDY COMMENTARY / PHILADELPHIAThe work kept going after the Center City hub closed. Who is making it easier for the people doing it to stay?
Read the full article → MUSIC / LONDON / NEW ALBUMThe London musician’s second album arrived October 2, 2026. Her release notes trace a journey through reclamation, forgiveness and self-acceptance. Start with “Superstar,” “Garden” and “Conversation,” then explore the full record.
Listen on Sipprell’s Bandcamp ↗ COMEDY / PHILADELPHIAThe understated comic makes the little things people say do the heavy lifting. A STURDY profile on a voice growing beyond the feed.
Read STURDY’s profile → PHOTOGRAPHY / PERTH / ON VIEWAGWA’s No night is long enough for us to dream twice brings photography and video from South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas to Perth. On view through January 31.
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