Through five extraordinary projects, traverse the unique and illustrious output of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. Born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan, Ando was a boxer and professional fighter before settling on the occupation of…
With three outposts across London, the much-loved Hoppers offers up a mouth-watering selection of Sri Lankan and South Indian inspired dishes on their menus, from speciality hoppers served with chutneys and kari, and bone marrow rotis, to various sumptuous rice and lentil based favourites like idlis, dosas and vadas, alongside seafood aplenty. To celebrate the…
On Friday 21 October 2022, Ivorian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Ramata Cissé presented her performance installation Wondane at Montreal’s Fonderie Darling. Curated by James Oscar and Fabienne Parisien, the presentation comprised a performative video installation, alongside the artist’s inaugural sculptural works, taking the form of imposing bronze utensils, accompanied by a series of photographs. Cissé, recently an…
From Marcel Duchamp’s Apolinère Enameled, to Tracey Emin’s Turner Prize nominated My Bed, the site of sleep has long captivated us. Laden with metaphor, the bedroom is a place of rest, healing and dreaming, as well as pleasure, conception, birth and death. And perhaps in more modern times, remote working – though Frida Kahlo famously…
Ethel Tawe, born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, is a multidisciplinary artist and curator exploring visual and sonic archives, memory, and identity in Africa and its diaspora. Using collage, pigments, words, installation, still and moving images, Tawe examines space and time-based technologies often from a magical realist lens. Her burgeoning curatorial practice took form in an inaugural…
Jamavar, the Michelin-starred Indian restaurant from Samyukta Nair, celebrates Diwali this October with the launch of a limited-edition menu inspired by the culinary traditions observed throughout India’s diverse regions at this special time of year. A celebration of the triumph of light over darkness, Diwali brings together friends and family for joyous feasts and exuberant…
London-based artist and performer bones tan jones’ practice proposes an optimistic dystopia, one that is envisioned through a queer lens. Through pop music, ritual, craft, sculpture, alter-egos, and moving image, tan jones weaves a mycelial web of diverse narratives which aim to connect, enthral and induce audiences to think more sustainably and ethically. Open now…
Reflecting on the Hayward Gallery’s major summer show, In the Black Fantastic, which ran from 29 June –18 September 2022, Ivorian-French multidisciplinary artist and writer Keren Lasme unpacks the ambitious exhibition’s highlights. “This is the domain of the Strange, the Marvelous, and the Fantastic…” — Suzanne Césaire, Tropiques (1941). Affixed on one of the…