Helmed by London-based Lebanese graphic designer and visual artist Marwan Kaabour, @takweer_ compiles archival images, film and television stills, and texts shining a light on Arab queerness in history and popular culture. In Arabic, “takweer” means to turn something into a sphere, metaphorically intimating the creation of a round world. Phonetically, the word has a…
Opening tomorrow, 14 July 2022, and running through the summer, Selfridges have partnered with Berlin’s Reference Festival to present SUPERFUTURES, an immersive exhibition bringing together 13 experiential spectacles and surreal interventions by leading artists, brands and thinkers. Conceived by the communications agency Reference Studios, alongside founder and director Mumi Haiati, Reference Festival started out in…
The tortilla, one of Spain’s most iconic dishes, is eaten across the country for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Evolving from its dryer ancestor to a version with a melt in the middle centre, this popular style of tortilla is the variety you will find on the menu at the newly launched London restaurant Broken Eggs….
The ephemeral quality of ice has long fascinated cultures and artists through history. Though the earliest civilisations of Canada and Greenland began to build snow shelters some 4000 years ago, the first known instance of ice being used in a decorative way is believed to have occurred in China. During the 17th century, fisherman working…
Born in Chad to a Sudanese father and Somali mother, Brooklyn-based ceramic artist Dina Nur Satti had somewhat of a nomadic upbringing owing to her father’s work with the United Nations. Moving to Belgium, then Paris, then Kenya, before settling down to study in New York, Satti holds a bachelor’s degree in International & Intercultural…
A unique culinary hub, Mexico City has established itself as an epicentre of innovative gastronomy, building on a rich and extensive foundation of food traditions from across Mexico and beyond. The nation’s earliest foodways lie in Mesoamerican cuisine; its ingredients and methods begin with the first agricultural communities such as the Maya who domesticated maize….
The newly released documentary, The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons, chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era 60s Los Angeles to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice, rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite…
French-Lebanese architect Annabel Karim Kassar’s architectural practice, AKK, was founded in Beirut in 1994. At the end of the Lebanese Civil War, AKK was declared joint winner of an international competition to rebuild the Souks, the traditional marketplace at the heart of old Beirut. Kassar’s architecture combines a modernist vocabulary with the detailed craftsmanship and…