On Saturday 7 December 2024, Dalston’s St. Barnabas was transformed into an art school, as London-based Ethiopian designer FEBEN hosted a life drawing workshop in partnership with the charity Sistah Space—a collaborative initiative made possible by the support of PUMA. The event blended art, fashion, and community spirit, underscoring a shared commitment to empowerment and…
When the filmmaker Elizabeth Ai was pregnant, she found herself scouring through old family albums, looking for something from her own childhood which she could share with her daughter in a couple of years. That’s when she chanced upon photographs of her uncles and aunts in Orange County, listening to New Wave in the ‘80s…
Abundance Culinary could only exist in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The borough and its nearly 45,000 residents centres around the Cedar Lee high street and surrounding commercial areas, where Abundance Culinary sits – a mad libs modern Chinese restaurant that opened last year. Occupying a retro-fit diner, Abundance is just a short walk from the local high…
Welcome to the Something Curated holiday gift guide for 2024 — a varied list of items, objects, and experiences for loved ones, all selected by friends of the SC community. Happy shopping and happy holidays. The Substance Candle — Slime Recommended by fashion and culture writer Lauren Cochrane. Anyone who saw The Substance has the last…
This week, London Museum Docklands will unveil The Reflections Room, a new permanent space dedicated to contemporary art, with exhibitions probing the topics and historical narratives represented throughout the museum’s collections—such as immigration, colonialism, slavery, and Black British identity. The new space will be inaugurated on 29 November with the presentation of Exodus, a layered…
During the course of the last 15 years, 36-year-old Guirong Wei has established herself among London’s preeminent Chinese chefs and the one at the vanguard of Xi’an cuisine and the culture of biang biang noodles around it. Having first put down roots at the now-cult favourite Xi’an Impression in the shadow of the Emirates stadium…
Rituals of Care marks the first mid-career survey in Europe for Brazilian artist Antonio Obá, an exhibition that reclaims historical narratives and delves into themes of spirituality and identity. Curated by Andrea Bellini, the show at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève spans two floors, offering a compelling exploration of Obá’s layered practice. Through a seamless…
After seven years of making documentary films, a colleague’s remark kept me up at night: “Documentary release forms,” they said, “have been linked to a lineage of control mechanisms found in American slave photographic history.” I was stunned—and soon learned about cases like Harvard’s claim over the images of Tamara Lanier’s ancestors, upheld by the…