Interview: Caterina Barbieri, Nkisi & Bendik Giske On Playing RE—TEXTURED Festival 2022

Activating diverse sites throughout London and beyond from 24-27 March 2022, RE—TEXTURED is a multi-venue and uniquely multi-sensory festival. The programme combines experimental electronic music, brutalist and modernist architecture and innovative lighting installations for an arresting visual and sonic experience. Curated by Krankbrother, the festival first launched at the Southbank Centre in 2019. This year’s…

Interview: Rachel Rose On New Work & The Therapeutic Benefits Of Video

New York-based artist Rachel Rose, who in recent years has had solo exhibitions at Lafayette Anticipations, the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitney Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among other institutions, draws from and contributes to a long history of cinematic innovation. Through her subjects, whether investigating cryogenics, the American Revolutionary War, modernist architecture, or…

Try Making Chef Ajay Chaurasia’s Delicious Masala Dosa At Home

Following the success of his first restaurant in Vauxhall, chef and founder Ajay Chaurasia has now launched Bombay Delight in Wimbledon. Bringing hidden gems of Indian cuisine to southwest London, the new menu features a number of lesser-known, regional Indian dishes alongside all-time favourites, with a focus on using fresh ingredients and fragrant spices to…

Interview: British-Iranian Artist Kour Pour On Plural Origins & Entwined Histories

Los Angeles-based British-Iranian artist Kour Pour’s meticulously composed and delicately rendered artworks intersect diverse material and aesthetic traditions, embracing forms and techniques from numerous cultures and time periods. Pour’s truly global vision weaves together representational imagery, abstract patterning, and ornamental elements to create new hybrid artworks. The artist explains, “When someone asks me where home…

5 Brilliant Artists’ Books To Add To Your Library

In contrast to an art book, catalogue or monograph, which is produced primarily to present artworks created in another medium, the term “artists’ books” describes publications that have been conceived as artworks in their own right. The book is a medium that allows an artist’s work to be accessible to a wide audience in diverse…

What We Know So Far About ‘Black Chapel,’ Theaster Gates’ Ambitious Serpentine Pavilion

Plans have been revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Set within Serpentine’s grounds in Kensington Gardens, Black Chapel takes on sculptural qualities, building on Gates’ interest in fashioning clay objects, as well as reflecting the artist’s exploration of space-making. Gates creates works that engage with space theory,…

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