From Archie Moore’s celebrated Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to Naudline Pierre and Caitlin Cherry’s interactive floats at Cayman Carnival, and Mariko Mori’s luminous Peace Crystal destined for an Ethiopian cave, artists around the world have sparked important conversations about identity, community, and resistance through diverse projects this past year. Here’s a look back…
How to sum up 2024 in style and culture? A quick scroll through your frequently-used group chat should do it. But in case even that is too much for a tired and addled December brain, we’re here to help. Here are 12 moments you might have sent an emoji about in 2024. The future comes…
Drafting a reading list is one of those exercises that always come tinged with some regrets. For every book that you decide on including, there are two or three that with the privilege of hindsight you feel should have been afforded the same sort of consideration. Here then are some of my highlights of the…
What lingers most from my year of going to the cinema in 2024 is not a particular image but an experience of time—or rather, several experiences of time as explored by filmmakers across the decades through a cultural and political inquiry into the intimate lives of women in various parts of Asia. This selection of…
Early on this year at Something Curated, we introduced the ‘my best photograph’ series, where we ask a photographer or visual artist we love to share an image that means a lot to them – and to tell the audience the story behind the image. We’ll continue this into 2025, inviting some of the industry’s most…