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‘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…
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,…
Doha Opens the First Museum Dedicated to the ‘Picasso of India’
Living and working until the age of 95, Maqbool Fida Husain arrived in Qatar relatively late in his life. Yet it’s here, in Doha, that the first museum dedicated to the “Picasso of India” has opened. Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum is the latest undertaking of the Qatar Foundation. And while I still…
Interviews
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…
“Technology Is a Way to Make the Invisible Visible”: In Conv...
Since founding DRIFT in Amsterdam in 2007, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta have been investigating the relationship between nature, technology and emotion. The studio’s light-based sculptures and performances explore the invisible systems that connect us to the natural world. Their work has appeared everywhere from the Centre Pompidou and Victoria & Albert Museum to New…
Cherry Xu’s Shanghai: An Insider’s Guide to the City’s Best Galleries, Food, Nightlife and More
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…
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Near’? A New Exhibition Asks Us to Rethink Closeness
Ahead of Proximities, a landmark exhibition opening 15 December 2025 at the Seoul Museum of Art, presented in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, Something Curated invites curators Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim to reflect on the ideas shaping this ambitious project. The show brings together more than 100 works by…
Joe D’Urso: Minimalism as Radical Clarity
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…
Recasting the Male Lead in Cinema: ‘Urchin’, ‘The Mastermind’, and ‘One Battle After Another’
For this autumn film installment, I chose three movies anchored by spectacularly acted male leads who, in at least two cases, are rather pitiable figures – men who end up in even worse rags than when we first met them. From the spiky and subversive social realism of Harris Dickinson’ Urchin, zooming in on the…
Guides
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…
What to See At Frieze London 2025
Open now and running until Sunday 19 October, Frieze’s flagship fair returns to London bringing together 168 leading galleries from 43 countries, underscoring the fair’s position as one of the most international in the world. Reflecting London’s character as a city shaped by global perspectives, the fair foregrounds new and diverse voices, capturing the breadth…
Eating and Exploring in the Beautiful Alpine Town of Annecy
Almost 20 years ago, I spent a dreamy summer living with a host family in the Alpine town of Annecy, situated on one of Europe’s most magnificent lakes. The town is, in many ways, unchanged since then –crisscrossed by flowerbox-lined canals an almost luminescent shade of blue, and ever popular with package tourists in safari gear….
Cartographies of Relation: Notes from the Making of the Thailand Biennale
“I always wrote a travel narrative before I set off on a trip, so that during the journey I’d have something to quote from. I was often speechless when I traveled. This time it was particularly useful that I’d written my report beforehand. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known what to say about Siberia. Of course,…
Radio Alhara and Wonder Cabinet’s Creativity for Existence Between Jordan and Palestine
On a street at the edge of downtown Amman, a small Radio Alhara decal on a glass door is the only hint that Turbo – a studio that helped shape the city’s independent visual culture – operates inside. Outside, downtown hums with its usual chaos – cars, shop signs and voices overlapping in the air. Inside,…
What Happens When an Island, an Oasis, and an Old Airport Become Art Exhibitions?
The procession of buggies moves slowly, almost ceremonially, into the dark. Their headlights switch off just before the path dissolves into mangroves – a deliberate gesture, curator Khai Hori tells me over lunch the next day. Leaving the buzz of the main exhibition site behind, only the hum of crickets and the dull crunch of…
Between Ruin and Revelation: Reginald Sylvester II and the Rebirth of Accra’s Limbo Museum
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…
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….