An Insider’s Guide to Bangkok’s Galleries, Markets, and Bookshops
Bangkok: The city summons a set of preconceptions for the first-time traveller. Chaotic, unrelenting, hedonistic. But most cities exist in the gaps between binaries. In my years spent living and wandering in Bangkok, I have grown to appreciate a metropolis that is abundant in life, creativity and industriousness. The impact of mass tourism is indelible…
My Life in Rice: Apoorva Sripathi’s Midweek Arisi Paruppu Sadham and Carrot Salad
I can tell you about my life in rice: I eat too much of it. My phone is filled with photos and videos of fluffy biryanis, homely pulaos, gloopy risotto, sweet payasam, kanji, stir-fries, dosais, idlis, idiyappam, kozhukattai, aval, bhel puri, and just about every rice dish I hold dear. But more and more, it…
The Landscape Remembers: In Conversation with Painter Georg Wilson
London-based painter Georg Wilson’s practice is rooted in the rhythms of nature, paying homage to English folklore, and pastoral traditions of poetry and art. Responding to the seasons, she creates richly textured, atmospheric landscapes that exist beyond the human realm, inhabited instead by wildling creatures that live in harmony with the land. Through swirling, layered…
Inside the New York City Kitchen of The Baodega’s Charlene Luo
“Supper clubs are quite special because they’re very intimate and small and I’m able to physically be in the same space as the diners and explain every single dish. It’s a very different experience than in a restaurant…I’m basically giving a lecture while the meal’s taking place,” chef Charlene Luo says. “It’s educational and it’s…
The Sacred and the Feminist: In Conversation with Indonesian...
On 30 January 2025, Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita will unveil her first solo exhibition in the UK, Into Eternal Land, at The Curve, Barbican. Bringing together diverse media—from embroidery to scent—Sasmita will transform the 90-metre-long gallery into a sprawling landscape that connects cultures, histories, and cosmologies. Building on her interdisciplinary practice, Into Eternal Land challenges…
Inside the World of Trần Lương, Vietnam’s Performance Art Pi...
Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre hosts the first international retrospective of the prolific Vietnamese artist, Trần Lương. An influential figure in his home country, the artist’s work is lesser known outside of South East Asia—though it seems like that’s imminently going to change. Following its presentation in the United Arab Emirates, the new exhibition, titled Tầm…
Between Form and Spirit: In Conversation with Reginald Sylve...
Ahead of Reginald Sylvester II’s exhibition at CANADA gallery in New York, opening on 16 January 2025, Something Curated’s Keshav Anand spoke with the Hudson-based artist to learn more about his inspirations and the evolving language of his practice. Sylvester creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that trace the generative threshold between the two mediums, utilising…
The Art of New Season Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A conversation about olive oil: the process, the quality, an idyllic rural pocket of the western Peloponnese, and creating a brand without intending to do so – Tom Woodgate and Juli Laki are behind Honest Toil, the company they founded 15 years ago; today it’s one of the most dynamic, well-known premium olive oils in Europe….
Photographer Melissa Schriek on Female Friendship and the Privilege of Boredom
“I have a lot of photos with chins touching,” said Melissa Schriek over the phone from her Amsterdam home. We were going through some of the photographs from her last book, Ode: an exploration of the dynamics of female friendship. “I like that it’s almost a mouth,” she said, “It’s also very intimate when your…
“I Have Been Moved to Find Beauty in Places of Deep Precarity”: In Conversation with Gauri Gill
One of India’s most important contemporary photographers, Gauri Gill is renowned for her deeply immersive and collaborative approach to image-making. Gill’s work is shaped by long-term engagements with rural, indigenous, marginalised and diasporic Indian communities. Through sustained interactions, she captures narratives of resilience, resistance and beauty, offering an intimate perspective on lives often overlooked. Her photographs sensitively examine the…
London Kabuli Pilau with Smoked Beef Short-Rib by Mursal Saiq
This is my British barbecue take on Afghanistan’s national dish. Merging British flavour profiles and ingredients with traditional Afghan recipes which are replete with complementary aromatics. My take replaces the steamed meat with low and slow Texan barbecue methods, twisting the culinary arts on their head and bashing them together to pay homage to the…
Reading List: Five Books to Read This Month
January is the moment of New Year resolutions. “I will hit the gym and scroll less, I will stop binge TV shows and read more,” I tell myself … Let’s see, I suppose. We can but try. With that, here’s a quite eclectic selection of the best books published in the last month to help…
Where to Eat and Drink in Naples in 2025
Naples has undergone a remarkable transformation over recent times, evolving from a controversial and often overlooked city into a major Mediterranean hotspot – its music, monuments, food and football attracting visitors from across the world. It holds a special place in my heart. Despite being from northern Italy, I’ve always had Neapolitan friends who, over the…
The Best from Condo London 2025
Condo, the brainchild of London art dealer Vanessa Carlos—co-founder of Carlos/Ishikawa—involves local galleries lending their spaces for a month to foreign dealers to stage collaborative exhibitions. The model offers visitors and collectors alike a chance to discover talents they may not have otherwise come across in their city, as well as providing galleries with an…
Rachel Khedoori: At the Intersection of Space and Memory
Known for her ability to blur the boundaries between film, sculpture, and installation, Rachel Khedoori has spent over three decades creating works that challenge perception and transform space. Her latest exhibition, on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse until 23 May 2025, presents a new body of work that continues this exploration. Using materials…
Bangkok’s Experimental Film Festival Returns After Twelve Years
After a 12-year hiatus, the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF) founded by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and curator Gridthiya Gaweewong, is back for its 7th edition. The Festival showcases over 120 experimental works across 29 programs. The singularity of this edition lies in its scale and two notion-defying works: A Conversation with the Sun, and…
Music Monthly: The Biggest Releases and Reissues, January 2025
December and January are always peculiar months for the music industry. Year-end charts and bold announcements of upcoming projects dominate the discourse, while many noteworthy releases slip under the radar. This month we want to talk about a debut album full of contrasts; a book exposing the dark side of music streaming; an experimental soundtrack…
Francisco Goya and the Timeless Allure of the Bizarre
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) remains one of the most pivotal artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutos Museum in Athens, Greece, houses all four complete series of Goya’s prints—Los Caprichos, Los Desastres de la Guerra, La Tauromaquia, and Los Disparates (Los Proverbios)—acquired by the…
Meet Harris Dickinson, the Compelling Lead Actor of ‘B...
British actor Harris Dickinson plays the lead role in Eliza Hittman’s critically acclaimed Beach Rats, which chronicles a young man’s struggle with his sexuality over the course of a summer, amid the stultifying machismo of outer Brooklyn. Opening in select theatres on 24 November, the film follows Frankie, portrayed by Dickinson, as he roams the…
Interview: Ernesto Neto On Gravity, Togetherness & The ...
Since the 1990s, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has produced an inimitable body of work that is in equal parts informed by sensuality and spirituality. Inspired by the Brazilian Conceptualists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, as well as biomorphism, Minimalism and Arte Povera, Neto’s works engage all of our senses while asserting the human body as…
SC Exclusive: Notes on a Siren — a Film Essay by Justice Jam...
Director Justice Jamal Jones joins myth with modern themes of Black queerness and trans identity in their latest film, Notes on a Siren. Presented by Something Curated, and exclusively premiering on the site, the film was shot on location at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman. Jones expands on the thinking behind their mesmerising work below….