A nucleus of artistic activity, New York City boasts a seemingly endless list of shows and cultural events to attend, with new spaces popping up around the city relentlessly. Making a discerning selection from this cornucopia is quite a task — and so Something Curated is here to help. From major museums and cultural institutions,…
Los Angeles-based Iranian-American visual artist Nasim Hantehzadeh works in oil, pastel and graphite, across both canvas and paper, bringing together untethered figurative elements in vibrant and arresting compositions that allude to a range of references, including Palaeolithic cave paintings, indigenous art from Mexico and ancient Persian rug designs. Hantehzadeh returned to the United States –…
Olukayode Odesanya, better known by his stage name Kida Kudz, is a Nigerian born, UK based artist primarily operating within the Afrobeats scene and its adjacent worlds. Having accrued a keen following across Europe and Africa with his distinctive sound, which he coins “Afro Jiggy,” Kida has previously collaborated with artists such as Burna Boy,…
Al Sadu, sometimes referred to as just Sadu, is a traditional form of weaving practised by Bedouin communities to produce soft furnishings for the home, resilient garments, tents, and decorative items for camels and horses, among other functions. The Bedouin are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula,…
Pioneering Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, born in 1939 in Omdurman, Sudan, was amongst the first women artists to graduate from the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum in 1963. She followed this with studies in Mural Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and later, Lithography, Typography and Illustration….
With the holidays fast approaching, Something Curated has compiled a list of ten of the most coveted items available for purchase this month, perfect to give or receive, spanning art, fashion, home and more. Art Untitled, 2014 | Anish Kapoor Anish Kapoor is well-known for his use of abstract biomorphic forms and his penchant for…
This piece is part of the Image Frequency Modulation series contributed by Palm Heights artist-in-residence Ethel Tawe. By definition, an album is a collection of material or records, whether formatted visually as a photo album, or sonically as a music album. This process of collecting is inherently curatorial by the common threads that often bind…
Open now and running until 19 February 2023, Kettle’s Yard presents Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated by Habda Rashid in dialogue with Barbadian artist, educator and writer Paul Dash, Jamaican artist and editor Errol Lloyd, and Trinidadian poet, artist and curator John Lyons. Alongside a selection of their own…