The masonn project, a transmedia and transnational artistic initiative, brings together diverse perspectives on vernacular architecture, mystical realism, and Afro-diasporic memory. How do populations, shaped by colonisation and displacement, use architecture and space-making as forms of survival and creativity? How do these communities, both distinct and connected, resist oppression through the transformation of their environments…
London-based multidisciplinary artist Imran Perretta works across moving-image, sound, performance and poetry, probing topics from biopower and marginality to the construction and deconstruction of cultural histories through his practice. The artist’s latest commission, A Riot in Three Acts — on view now and running until 10 November 2024 at Somerset House Studios — reflects on…
Fonts, like most aesthetic things, go through trend cycles. But in recent years it has seemed that serifs – the twiddly bits on the edges of letters – had become a thing of the past. The only fonts we paid any attention to were twiddly bit-free, straight-edged, or sans-serif. See the striking Futura originally taken…
New York-based artist Justin Chance’s practice centres around an ongoing series of quilts the artist primarily fabricates from felted wool encased in silk organza. Recognising the political histories and personal potentialities of quilting, Chance views these works as both pictorial surfaces and objects in their own right, ones in which memories, suggestions of narrative, and…
Open now at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, and on view until 5 January 2025, Bneid Al Gar is the largest solo exhibition to date of the Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist, Alia Farid. Last year, Farid received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, which alongside significant financial support offers awardees a solo exhibition at the Norwegian arts…
Inaugurating the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s autumn programme from 18 September 2024, Black Ancient Futures brings together a group of African and diaspora artists to Portugal’s capital for an exhibition that reimagines the past, present, and future of the Black artistic experience on a transcontinental scale. The participating artists have been…
Spanning millennia, the story of Cappadocia, a myth-steeped and ancient land in Central Anatolia, Turkey, has been shaped by numerous civilisations, religions, and empires over centuries. The region’s history dates back to the Palaeolithic era, with evidence of human settlements existing long before the rise of any organised society. However, it was during the Hittites’…
This autumn, William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow will present the first exhibition on the influence of art from the Islamic world on William Morris, one of Britain’s leading 19th-century designers and thinkers. A principal founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Morris was responsible for producing hundreds of patterns for wallpapers, furnishing fabrics, carpets and…
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