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Share this article Watch Eric Haze and A$AP Ferg Talk Basquiat and the Blurring of Creative Mediums As part of No More Rulers Convo series. Hip-Hop, art and fashion carry a symbiotic relationship. Each informs the other and constantly evolve in tandem, but it wasn’t always that way. It wasn’t until the 1980s that these worlds, specifically street art and graffiti, became more accepted in the fine art world. To conclude the recent exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation,” the MFA Boston has worked with No More Rulers on a...

Would you walk a mile – or two – for a good beer? I'm willing to put that concept to the test in Auckland, where a collection of craft breweries, pubs and bars in Auckland's Eden Terrace and Kingsland districts, south of the CBD, has led to the birth of the Auckland Beer Mile. It's not really a mile; in fact at 3.2 kilometres it's exactly two miles from end to end. But with easy access to trains and buses, it's a pleasingly walkable stretch of places to drink. Over a couple of days, I visit six of them… See Also GALBRAITH'S ALEHOUSE

COMMUNITY leaders have attended a demonstration of a new machine which could "revolutionise" the fixing of Hampshire's potholes. Last Wednesday in West End, Hampshire County Council was given a demonstration of the PotholePro, JCB's new "revolutionary pothole and patch fixer". The company launched the JCB PotholePro earlier this year which it claims can repair a pothole in less than eight minutes, four times quicker than standard methods and at half the cost of current solutions. Hampshire Highways, a collaboration between Hampshire County Council and Milestone Infrastructure, took pa...

Whether your living room layout, size, or budget is restricting you from using a coffee table, these alternative ideas will make you forget all about tradition.

The artist will present his unique work, which blends photography, graffiti and installation art, to Cairo in October