“THE PERMANENT SHOCK OF THE NEW” reads a vintage poster, its letters strong, stark and declarative. It’s projected across a large wall in Helsinki’s Savoy, a restaurant designed by designers Alvar and Aino Aalto in the 1930s. Sleek interiors fit with smooth wooden ceilings, low-hung lamps and neat round tables are now, for the night,…
Living and working until the age of 95, Maqbool Fida Husain arrived in Qatar relatively late in his life. Yet it’s here, in Doha, that the first museum dedicated to the “Picasso of India” has opened. Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum is the latest undertaking of the Qatar Foundation. And while I still…
Ahead of Proximities, a landmark exhibition opening 15 December 2025 at the Seoul Museum of Art, presented in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, Something Curated invites curators Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim to reflect on the ideas shaping this ambitious project. The show brings together more than 100 works by…
“I always wrote a travel narrative before I set off on a trip, so that during the journey I’d have something to quote from. I was often speechless when I traveled. This time it was particularly useful that I’d written my report beforehand. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known what to say about Siberia. Of course,…
The procession of buggies moves slowly, almost ceremonially, into the dark. Their headlights switch off just before the path dissolves into mangroves – a deliberate gesture, curator Khai Hori tells me over lunch the next day. Leaving the buzz of the main exhibition site behind, only the hum of crickets and the dull crunch of…
Accra. The first thing you notice is the heat. Not the gentle kind that warms the skin, but a thick, breathing heat that turns the air into something tactile, alive with red dust, incense, and the scent of fresh concrete baking beneath the Ghanaian sun. Then comes the sound, a low metallic hum, like machinery…
Saturday morning in Oslo, I circle the National Museum looking for SAGG Napoli’s new work. The slate-clad façade reads like a fortress—clean planes of Oppdal stone, almost defensive in its quiet. Around the corner, there’s another fortress of sorts: a matte-black cube ringed by metal bars and guarded by security. Spray-painted across its high walls…
At Geneva’s Musée Rath, a major new exhibition, More Than Meets the Eye, open now and on view until 23 November, brings together voices and visions from across the African continent. Drawn from the CBH Art Collection, the sprawling show spans nearly a century of artmaking, from 1929 to 2024, and features more than eighty…