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Rhythm Alliances: How Sri Lanka Integrates Contemporary Art and Electronic Music
One night after arriving in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, I was in a bare, concrete room listening to fresh electronic dance music. Dialled In, a leading South Asian contemporary music platform, was in town to host a fundraiser to help alleviate Cyclone Ditwah’s crippling aftermath. The opening performance by Paris-born Sri Lankan Da Ya…
‘Atlante’: Mapping Absence and Uncertainty in Naples
The approach to Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples is disarmingly ambiguous, a staircase that withholds any sense of what lies ahead. At the top, there is an unassuming door, a small sign, and a guestbook placed outside, as if the gallery is still deciding how visible it wants to be. Behind the door, the space…
Surrounded by Shrouded Scarecrows, John Alexander Skelton’s ‘Otherworld’ Unfolds
It’s dark and I’m watching my breath dance in January’s cold air. I’m sitting on the stone steps outside South London’s Asylum Chapel, watching people with flushed cheeks exchange smiles and hellos and go on in through a large open door. Inside, the chapel hall glows warmly with twinkling candlelight and cups steaming with hot…
Art After “Emergence”: Why Southeast Asia Can’t Recognise Itself in the Mirror
As ART SG, Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair, returns to Singapore from 23–25 January 2026, questions of visibility, framing, and identity remain central. For the first time, the fair will co-present S.E.A. Focus, an exhibition platform dedicated to showcasing contemporary art from the region. In this essay for Something Curated, John Z.W. Tung, Curator…
Interviews
Between Ruin and Revelation: Reginald Sylvester II and the R...
Accra. The first thing you notice is the heat. Not the gentle kind that warms the skin, but a thick, breathing heat that turns the air into something tactile, alive with red dust, incense, and the scent of fresh concrete baking beneath the Ghanaian sun. Then comes the sound, a low metallic hum, like machinery…
The Ambivalence of Objects: In the Studio with Cezary Poniat...
On the heels of his solo show, Pharmakon at Wschód gallery, Polish artist Cezary Poniatowski speaks with Something Curated’s Keshav Anand about the uncanny pull of his new works and what it’s like working as an artist in Warsaw today. His recent reliefs, stitched together from carpets and bits of domestic hardware, carry a quiet…
The Taste of House: How Hamburg Duo GOME Turned Cooking Into...
Over a video call on a late autumn afternoon, GOME are under the blankets of a hotel bed in Barcelona, recovering from the night before. They’ve just played at Tunnel, one of the city’s key underground spots – an exhilarating night midway through their latest European tour. GOME are Robin Townshend and Julian Marks, two…
The Best Art from 2025
From long-term collaborations and reimagined archives to ambitious institutional projects and experimental forms of hospitality, featuring moments from London, Accra, Berlin, Doha, New Delhi and beyond, the below selection brings together some of the most compelling practices, exhibitions, and ideas that have shaped 2025. “I Have Been Moved to Find Beauty in Places of Deep…
From Steel to Straw: How Charlotte Perriand Humanised Modern Design
Founded by Mason Vincent and Jack Redpath, Darling is a furniture studio dedicated to curating an ever-changing selection of rare objects and collectible design pieces. From bases in Sydney and New York, the pair have developed a studio that sources, restores, and recontextualises collectible furniture and objects from across Europe, while championing a new generation of designers…
A New Wave of Coastal Cool: An Eating and Drinking Guide to the Isle of Wight
Once upon a time, the great British seaside getaway was practically synonymous with Cornwall and Devon: sun-washed cliffs, pastel beach huts, and fish-and-chip shop queues winding lazily along the promenades. But the tides are shifting, and a new contender is stepping into the spotlight. The Isle of Wight has always had a reputation for cycling and…
Collecting as a Love Language: The Making of Time & Space
Before Time & Space existed publicly, it lived quietly between two people. In the years before a physical space took shape, there was just Armand Da Silva and Tyler Phoenix, wandering markets, swapping gifts, discovering the thrill of a found object. Their first date was not in a bar, but at a mid-century modern fair…
Guides
A Chef’s Guide to Paris’ Best Restaurants
In Paris, people often ask me where I eat when I’m not working in the restaurant. “Where do you go when you want something real?” Paris is full of polished facades, but the places I return to again and again are the ones that feel alive; restaurants run by people with a point of view,…
Cherry Xu’s Shanghai: An Insider’s Guide to the City’s Best ...
Last month, a new cultural hub, CHERUBY, opened its doors in Shanghai’s historic former French Concession with an inaugural exhibition by Mexican artist and designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane. Founded by entrepreneur and collector Cherry Xu, CHERUBY is “a place where different currents in Shanghai meet each other without forcing it. We’re on Changle Road – a…
A Print Lover’s Guide to New York
“While being a researcher and archivist usually means that there is no shortage of exciting and novel things to discover,” says Sanam Sindhi, “if you’re as obsessive about your niche interests as I am, there are moments when you can find yourself seemingly at the edge of all there is to know.” New York, for…
The Most Radical Biennial You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
In the scorching Belém sun and Amazonian humidity, punctuated by sudden downpours, the second Bienal das Amazônias stood amid vibrant street graffiti and a blue poster reading, “Quem protege a vida das mulheres indígenas [Who protects the lives of Indigenous women?].” The Bienal is a few minutes away from the Guajará Bay, formed by the…
The Permanent Shock of the New: The Legacy of Aalto at 90
“THE PERMANENT SHOCK OF THE NEW” reads a vintage poster, its letters strong, stark and declarative. It’s projected across a large wall in Helsinki’s Savoy, a restaurant designed by designers Alvar and Aino Aalto in the 1930s. Sleek interiors fit with smooth wooden ceilings, low-hung lamps and neat round tables are now, for the night,…
‘Florida Boys’: Josh Aronson’s Tender Rewriting of Southern Masculinity
In Florida Boys, Miami based artist Josh Aronson explores the American South through a lens of tenderness and care. Made between 2020 and 2025 across Florida’s backroads, the five year series stages groups of young men in landscapes that shift between paradise and ruin, from forests thick with humidity to springs that shimmer and swamps…
Akeem Smith’s Work Is “A Lens to Decode the Things That Don’t Make Sense”
Akeem Smith’s new works, presented by Heidi at Art Basel Miami Beach, appear like weathered relics. Rusted metal frames, contorted gates, and fragments of walls are conjoined, holding within them flickering images of faces. The photographs and VHS stills feel as though they’re surfacing through the material itself, tugging the eye toward excavated stories. Raised…
From The Archive
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…
A Print Lover’s Guide to New York
“While being a researcher and archivist usually means that there is no shortage of exciting and novel things to discover,” says Sanam Sindhi, “if you’re as obsessive about your niche interests as I am, there are moments when you can find yourself seemingly at the edge of all there is to know.” New York, for…
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….