As ART SG, Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair, returns to Singapore from 23–25 January 2026, questions of visibility, framing, and identity remain central. For the first time, the fair will co-present S.E.A. Focus, an exhibition platform dedicated to showcasing contemporary art from the region. In this essay for Something Curated, John Z.W. Tung, Curator…
Before Time & Space existed publicly, it lived quietly between two people. In the years before a physical space took shape, there was just Armand Da Silva and Tyler Phoenix, wandering markets, swapping gifts, discovering the thrill of a found object. Their first date was not in a bar, but at a mid-century modern fair…
In the scorching Belém sun and Amazonian humidity, punctuated by sudden downpours, the second Bienal das Amazônias stood amid vibrant street graffiti and a blue poster reading, “Quem protege a vida das mulheres indígenas [Who protects the lives of Indigenous women?].” The Bienal is a few minutes away from the Guajará Bay, formed by the…
“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…