Lexi Manatakis

Lexi is Social Media Editor at NOWNESS & a freelance art writer

Yutaka Sakano: Jean-Michel Basquiat 1983
FashionUnseen photos of Jean-Michel Basquiat wearing Issey Miyake in the 80s
FKA twigs pole dancing
Tried and TestedI tried pole dancing like FKA twigs and tapped into repressed emotions
King Krule shooting the ‘Alone Omen 3’ video
MusicBehind the scenes of King Krule’s ‘Alone, Omen 3’ video
Bjork Illustrations Digital Art
Björk TakeoverFor Björk visual artist Tobias Gremmler, nature is the source of all beauty
Art & Porn Amalia Ulman, “Dignity 01” (BUBBLE) (2017)
Art & PhotographyHow the legalisation of porn in 1969 shaped the work of these major artists
Outkast ATLiens artwork
MusicTracing OutKast’s obsession with space
Dazed Mix: Virgen María
MusicDazed Mix: Virgen María
Jheyda McGarrell Dazed 100
Dazed 100Jheyda McGarrell
Justin French
Dazed 100Justin French
Jordan Hemingway Dazed 100
Dazed 100Jordan Hemingway
AI: More Than Human Barbican
Art & PhotographyWhat you need to know about the Barbican’s epic AI exhibition
Ariana Papademetropoulos
Dazed 100Ariana Papademetropoulos
In and Out of Warhol’s Orbit: Nat Finkelstein
Art & PhotographyThis photographer shines a light on the dark side of Andy Warhol’s Factory
Ballantine’s True Music Cape Town
MusicCelebrating Cape Town’s underground electronic music scene
CLAUDE CAHUN que me veux-tu, 1928
Art & PhotographySeven female artists who subverted surrealism
Mariette Pathy Allen’s Rites of Passage
Art & PhotographyFour decades of photos show American trans communities living and loving
James Bidgood’s Reveries
Art & PhotographyInside the photos of James Bidgood – the godfather of homoerotic fantasy
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Film & TVPioneering filmmaker Agnès Varda has died
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Art & PhotographyThe collective writing womxn back into art history
BMW Tate Live Anne Imhof, Tate Modern installation
Art & PhotographyTate’s latest durational performances centre sex, techno, and identity
Alastair Thain’s Deeper
Art & PhotographyThe photographer behind the most tender portraits of Warhol and Basquiat
Dazed Social 2019 4
Art & PhotographyFour major artists on how to harness social media for your career
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art & PhotographyArt shows to leave the house for this month
Reza Abdoh
Art & PhotographyWhy queer director Reza Abdoh was American theatre’s greatest punk