features

• WHERE’S WILEY: British music’s most overlooked radical is back with a new album, but will it launch grime into the big time or leave the music mainstream in a muddle
• PARIS NEXUS: Kap Bambino and the future sound of the French capital
• KISS: Black Lips spread the love worldwide
• TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS: Simian Mobile Disco’s debut album brings the summer party to your house
• DAUL’S WORLD: By Isaac Lock, photography by Cameron Smith
• SUMMER OF ART: Venice, Documenta, Basel, Münster, Sharjah, Rotterdam
• LOW BUDGET MONUMENTS: cheap souvenirs and old ybas at the Venice Biennale
• SPIRIT OF THE PAGE: the 12th Documenta promises mystery and magazines
• BASEL FLUSH: art’s big-money event has great artistic promise too
• CITY LIMITS: Münster Skulptur Projekte goes beyond the art-show convention
• FOREVER CHANGES: The need for “less oil more courage” at the Sharjah Biennial
• URBAN UNCERTAINTY: power is knowledge at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
• CHOICE DISAPPOINTMENTS: biennials and their wilful discontents
• RUBBLE TO RABBLE: two generations of Italian architects and their splendid but nearly impossible rebellions
• PAINTING BY NUMBERS: the new data crunching formula for rating the value of art
• WHEELER DEALER: gear? garlic bread? girls with guys’ appendages? anything else, sir? you’ll never guess what Indian cabbie nandu has in the back of his auto-rickshaw
• SON OF A PREACHER MAN: what Jacob Holdt’s photographs taught America
• LA FAMME NIKITA: photography by John Lindquist, styling by Katy Lassen
• ME MYSELF AND EYE: photography by Gutto
• GREEN AND PEASANT LAND: photography by Bella Howard, styling by Robbie Spencer
• LIQUID SKY: photography by Luis Monteiro, styling by Felipe Mendes
• THE PLAYERS: a fashion performance starring Britain’s brightest young acting talent