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4 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Milo Astaire |Finn Constantine
10 min read Milo Astaire visits the cottage studio of British painter Rose Wylie, and finds an artist whose tour de force of life and humour is embodied in paint On a blustery, overcast day at the tail end of winter, I stepped out of Faversham train station and gave a taxi driver an address in the neighbouring village of Newnham. “Are you off to visit the artist?” the driver exclaimed. “Yes. How did you know?” “We are always dropping off people dressed like you at her place. She has a lot of...
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2 months ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Milo Astaire
9 min read In an age where discovering a new artist means scrolling through Instagram and sending out DMs, Milo Astaire makes good on his New Year’s resolution and rediscovers the joys of in person studio visits… via a short trip to Copenhagen.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
13 min read Milo Astaire embarks on his maiden press trip, one shrouded in self-doubt and admiration for Louise Giovanelli, and accidentally calls a leading art critic a MILFIt’s 7 am on the coldest day of the year. The morning bin men are making their rounds, and I am awoken by the creaking of the wrought iron gate that leads to the communal bins outside my house. My bed is warm, my newborn child is asleep upstairs. It is the type of morning you just want to stay under the covers forever.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
7 min read Plaster’s editorial director Milo Astaire drops into Soho tea room Maison Bertaux to chat with Gavin Lockheart about his latest show, ‘You’re So Square’There is a term in cycling – ‘bonk’. It means to cycle too fast and powerfully at the beginning of a long race and, later, with nothing left in the tank, you simply cease to be able to keep pedalling.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire |Finn Constantine
10 min read I thought it was over before it had begun. My brother Finn had made the faux pas of taking photos of Kenny Scharf just as he was in the middle of taking a massive hit of a bong.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
9 min read The bars were packed, the sidewalks crammed. Paris was humming with anticipation, hope and nerves. It was the night of 15th October and France were playing New Zealand in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup. But amongst the city-wide chants of ‘Vive la France’, my evening took me to Place Vendôme and the newly-installed public sculpture, Wave by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, with whom, three days later, we would shoot a (somewhat unorthodox) film and spend an unforgettable...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
6 min read “You can rely on me… I’ll always let you down.” Harland Miller declares in one of his famous Penguin book cover inspired paintings. An hour into the first ever Plaster photoshoot, I was starting to think that he had. Harland was a no-show. His assistant kept reassuring me that he would be there shortly. That this was normal for Harland. Finally a phone call came saying he was on his way and that he’d be with us in fifteen minutes. More like an hour. I settled into one of his...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
7 min read For decades, she was known as ‘the artist who broke up the Beatles’, but ahead of a major show at Tate Modern, Milo Astaire – Plaster founder and diagnosed Beatles superfan – reflects on how the world is finally catching up with Yoko Ono They broke up because ‘Yoko sat on an amp’. It was always Yoko who took the blame… Her name has even become a verb for tearing a friendship group apart… ‘She’s doing a Yoko.’ It was Yoko Ono who brought about the end. Of course, it wasn’t anything...
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May 13, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
5 min read Milo Astaire matches up the Top Six Premier League Football teams with London art galleries – (Chelsea fans, don’t read on…) With the Premier League approaching its climactic ending (and me, Venice/NYC fatigued and still feigning interest in Spurs), it got me thinking: if Premier League clubs were art galleries, which would be which? Full disclosure: As well as Plaster, I also run an art gallery… plus, Tatler magazine once referred to my Spurs fandom as my defining feature, so my...
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Milo Astaire
15 min read The first time I spoke with Harley Weir on the phone, she had just been caught in a giant hailstorm. It was the middle of July, and she was in awe of the size of the hailstones. Eager for me to see, she picked a few off the ground and took a quick iPhone photo of her clutching a collection of them. However, what struck me from the photo she sent to me wasn’t the hugeness of the golfball-sized hail, but how beautiful the image was. I could not figure out how she had managed to take...
