A forerunner of textile making until the 19th century, weaving practices flourished in India since the Bronze Age, with cotton cultivation and processing emerging during the time of the Indus Valley Civilisation. In medieval times, cotton textiles were imported to Rome through the maritime Silk Road and Arabian-Surat merchants traded fabrics with Basra and Baghdad…
The Aztec serpent god Quetzalcoatl is the muse of Mexican architect Javier Senosiain’s psychedelic and slithering apartment complex just north of Mexico City. Now available to rent via Airbnb, at least in part, El Nido de Quetzalcoatl, or Quetzalcoatl’s Nest, is a truly unique creation situated in the verdant ravines of Naucalpan de Juárez. Quetzalcoatl,…
Running from 15-29 September 2022, Barbican Cinema is set to present the latest segment of its Hidden Figures series, this time celebrating the work of pioneering Burkinabé director Idrissa Ouédraogo. The innovative filmmaker’s distinctive works portrayed the lives of rural and working class people in Burkina Faso with compassion and care. Never limiting his subjects…
Established by London-based interior designer Max Radford, behind Instagram account @m_r.a.a.d, over the course of three carefully curated exhibitions, The Radford Gallery has marked itself as a unique platform shining a light on the work of emerging artists, makers and designers tangentially exploring the realm of furniture. Most recently, the itinerant gallery presented its third…
A germinal figure in the history of fashion, Issey Miyake’s generous and influential contribution to the industry is impossible to overlook. The designer, who sadly passed away from liver cancer at the end of last week, was instrumental in shaping fashion today, championing an approach that celebrates the beauty of the unconventional. Miyake relentlessly expanded…
Hiroshima-based composer Meitei, working under the newly coined alias Tenka, has announced the launch of his upcoming album Hydration, set for release on 14 September via Métron Records. The album explores the rich natural ecosystems and wild ambience of the rural surroundings of his Japanese residence, navigating colour, sound, smell, humidity, touch, atmosphere and even…
Led by co-founders Michelle Gayle and Dennis Marcus alongside Artistic Director Ashley Shaw Scott Adjaye, the wife of Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, The World Reimagined, launching on 13 August and running until 31 October 2022, is a UK arts education project seeking to transform the ways in which we understand the transatlantic slave trade and…
Bread was inexorably linked with the formation and proliferation of early human societies. From the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, where wheat was domesticated, cultivation spread north and west, to Europe and North Africa, and east towards East Asia. This in turn led to the formation of towns, as opposed to the nomadic lifestyle,…