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2023 marks ten years since Archy Marshall, at only 18, released his debut album—howling, urban and desolate, preciously young, totally timeless. We find him now, a decade older, a father, having left his native London for Liverpool, and about to release his fourth studio work under the King Krule alias—one written on commuter trains, lingering in the “space between.”

Often shooting four or five films a year, Takashi Miike has characters that are, like his work rate, at once heroic and frightening. Over a career spanning three decades, he has gained a cult following, both in his homeland of Japan and internationally, as a filmmaker of the extremes of brutality, sex, and gore—a cinematic icon who still retains the ethos of the permanent outsider.

Since graduating from CalArts in 1978, Jim Shaw has eluded aesthetic typecasting by experimenting with almost every art form: drawing, painting, playing in punk bands, working in the movies, collecting ephemera, and chronicling his dreams. Through it all, he has forged an artistic career examining America—its iconographies, religions, psycho-geographies, and utopias.

The rise of museum and art gallery merchandise is unstoppable—the cumulative point of an economic and creative process that started with Pop Art. And as museum-going turns into a signifier of one’s inclusion in a global creative class compensating financial precariousness with good taste, the rule is simple: If you can’t buy the painting, why not get the T-shirt?

Undoubtedly the biggest dancehall star in Jamaica, Popcaan is also one of the rising pop stars in the world. Since his 2014 debut, he’s been the reigning king of the scene, exporting his sound around the world and collaborating with everyone from Jamie XX to Drake. His latest album, Great Is He, tells the rags-to-riches tale of his life.

Inaugurating a new carte blanche format “outsourcing” an editorial segment to like-minded global creatives, “Upstate” features original photography by Richard Kern and an essay by Olivia Khan-Sperling, within a special insert (cum folded two-sided poster) produced and designed by game-changing New York-based modelling agency, No Agency.