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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Though Black fashion designers have consistently pushed the industry’s barriers, expanding sartorial paradigms through diverse and critically engaged practices, Patrick Kelly was undoubtedly a true pioneer. His confident and vivid creations stood out on the streets, in nightclubs, and particularly on the runways of the 1980s. His uninhibited vision resulted in Kelly becoming the first…
Debuting at the 59th Venice Biennale, which commences on 23 April 2022, Nepal is set to present its first-ever national pavilion at the prestigious international exhibition this year. Entitled Tales of Muted Spirits – Dispersed Threads – Twisted Shangri-La, the Nepal Pavilion is co-curated by Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung, and will feature the…
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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