Evan Moffitt

Jan 21, 2025 | theguardian.com | Evan Moffitt

Fires are a seasonal recurrence in the dry chaparral region of Los Angeles. Often fanned by the Santa Anas, gales known as the “devil winds,” they spark easily in the long, hot months of summer and autumn. But on 7 January, when those winds blew at 85 mph through areas parched from winter drought, a hurricane of fire swept into lower-lying – and densely populated – areas that had never seen such blazes before.

Nov 27, 2024 | msn.com | Evan Moffitt

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Nov 27, 2024 | theguardian.com | Evan Moffitt

There’s a popular meme of two lovers embracing against a digital field of sunflowers. Their pursed lips would be locked were it not for their bumping VR headsets. “What if we kissed at the intersection of art and technology?” the text reads. The meme makes fun of a route heavily trafficked by museums with declining attendance figures, keen to lure viewers away from at-home streaming with digital art displays. On a darker level, it points to the more antisocial aspects of our hyper-connected age.

Oct 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Evan Moffitt

When the centrepieces of this exhibition arrived two weeks after the opening, they hardly seemed like works of art at all. They comprised a pair of wooden chests full of Georgian silver, which until recently belonged to the 9th Baronet Bellingham. Emails printed and pinned to the gallery walls reveal that the dinner service was obtained through a complex negotiation between the show’s artists, Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane, and the Bellingham family trust at NatWest.

Oct 30, 2024 | i-d.co | Evan Moffitt |William Wright

The past few decades have brought more changes to London’s urban landscape than any since the Victorian era. Industrial buildings and council flats have been razed and replaced with gleaming high-rises which the architecture critic Ian Martin called “improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the air.” Meanwhile, skyrocketing rents have screwed over all but the wealthiest.