Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai is a Japanese tradition in which people gather at night to exchange eerie ghost stories and personal anecdotes. This game involves the sequential telling of stories, with illumination provided by a hundred candles. After each tale, a candle is extinguished, gradually plunging the surroundings into deeper darkness. Originally, the game served as a…
Ambitious restoration plans for Iraq’s Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) and its invaluable collection have been announced this month. The initiative highlights the site’s significance within architectural and world history and places the museum at the centre of the region’s cultural and community regeneration. The second largest museum in Iraq, following Baghdad’s National Museum, the institution…
Broadly speaking, the clothing style and fashion sense of the Philippines in the modern-day era have been influenced by the nation’s indigenous tribes, Chinese waves of immigration, the Spaniards, and the Americans, as evidenced by the chronology of events that occurred in Philippine history. Today, in a globalised world shaped by social media, prevailing fashion…
Born in Tehran in 1986 during the Iran-Iraq war, LA-based Iranian artist, writer and filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran uses film and video to explore narratives of belonging outside of the geographies and temporalities that have both unsettled a sense of home, and make places of affinity uninhabitable. Khoshgozaran has previously presented her work at the New…
Studio Z emerged as an avant-garde art collective in the 1970s, a time when artistic expression outside the confines of the conventional, straight, white male mainstream often went unrecognised. Studio Z was founded by David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger and Houston Conwill, who welcomed the inclusion of numerous other artists. The collective first came…
The 1980s marked a culinary renaissance in New York City. The economy was booming, and this era of prosperity saw the rise of a generation with money to spend and a taste for luxury. As a result, the culinary landscape quickly became a playground for the rich and famous, and the restaurants of New York…
The nascency of Indian contemporary art can be traced back to the 1970s but it was during the early 1990s, when the country’s economy began to liberalise, and globalisation brought new ideas and influences to the forefront, that the movement really took root. Its development has been crucially facilitated by a growing network of art…
Pioneering Italian architect, designer and artist, Gaetano Pesce, is known for his humanist approach, expanding notions of Modernism with radical imperfection and warmth. With a career spanning seven decades, Pesce is an iconoclastic figure who refuses to be confined to a single category. His constant experimentation and avoidance of repetition are evident in his numerous…