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A Local’s Guide to Street Food in Lagos

Lagos street food is vibrant and abundant: In the right neighbourhood, you can find everything from popular fried and roasted snacks like puff puff and roasted yam, to full blown meals suitable for any time of the day. In this guide, we’re focusing on Lagos mainland. Here are a few of my favourites. Ewa Agoyin…

Gallerist Duarte Sequeira’s Guide to the Portuguese City of Braga

Portuguese art dealer Duarte Sequeira established his eponymous gallery in 2019, platforming a diverse roster of artists through a cross-generational and collaboratively minded programme that unfolds across sites in Braga, London and Seoul. The sprawling Braga HQ consists of two buildings: a 900 square-metre main exhibitions space and a 140 square-metre project space, both designed…

Interviews

“Time Spent With Good Souls Can Go a Long Way”: In the Studi...

Following recent institutional exhibitions at Spike Island, Hessel Museum and CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Olu Ogunnaike’s latest presentation, Is the soil right?, opened at London gallery Rose Easton earlier this month and is on view until 26 October 2024. In the show, the artist explores the parallels between humans and trees, tracing the…

Interview: Sculptor Oren Pinhassi on Architecture, Eroticism...

New York-based artist Oren Pinhassi creates sensuous sculptures and large-scale installations that explore the politics of architectural spaces as they relate to the human body. His anthropomorphic works, often standing up to eight feet in height, examine individual vulnerability and fluidity within the built environment, probing new possibilities for coexistence. Mimicking familiar images—such as a…

 

Floating Geographies: Discover the Artist-Led Initiative Reenvisioning Afro-Diasporic Space

The masonn project, a transmedia and transnational artistic initiative, brings together diverse perspectives on vernacular architecture, mystical realism, and Afro-diasporic memory. How do populations, shaped by colonisation and displacement, use architecture and space-making as forms of survival and creativity? How do these communities, both distinct and connected, resist oppression through the transformation of their environments…

Interview: Vivien Zhang on “Phantom Memories” and the Element of Chance

London-based artist Vivien Zhang asks us to rethink the imperfect systems — linguistic, visual, and taxonomic — that shape our understandings of the world. Drawing from personal experiences and intensive research, she incorporates diverse motifs into her abstract compositions. Her canvases become spaces where elements from different cultures and contexts converge, breaking away from their…

Guides

10 Unique Movie Theatres Around the World

With every generation comes paranoia that new cultural mediums will obliterate what came before. The arrival of wireless sets into households saw commentators grumble that people would stop reading books. When home television sets arrived, there was widespread worry that it spelled the end of radio. All that is to say that, while the way…

 

Where to Eat, Drink, and Sleep With Only 24 Hours in Seattle

The summer in Seattle is gone, the cold snap of rain back on Cherry Street. The fastest-growing city in the country according to the U.S. Census Bureau last year, the Emerald City is an ever-stranger series of contradictions. Infamous grunge iconoclasts flaming out on Pill Hill; the wealthiest capitalists in the world donning their Patagonia…

Imran Perretta Reflects on “One of the Most Contested Patches of Earth in London”

London-based multidisciplinary artist Imran Perretta works across moving-image, sound, performance and poetry, probing topics from biopower and marginality to the construction and deconstruction of cultural histories through his practice. The artist’s latest commission, A Riot in Three Acts — on view now and running until 10 November 2024 at Somerset House Studios — reflects on…

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