Chef Behzad Jamshidi began his career in 2016 when he moved from Vancouver BC to New York, the city he still calls home. After working in some of the city’s most well-known and celebrated kitchens, in 2018, Jamshidi started the Moosh platform to create what he calls more “meaningful collaborations and representation for the marginalised…
Open now and running until 6 May 2024, the Hayward Gallery’s landmark exhibition, When Forms Come Alive, highlights the ways in which sculptors across generations have been inspired by movement, flux, and organic growth. The exhibition features the works of 21 international artists, including Ernesto Neto, Franz West, Senga Nengudi, DRIFT, Ruth Asawa, Marguerite Humeau,…
Peppered across Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, a constellation of unassuming islands plays host to one of Asia’s most ambitious and unique art initiatives. Around three decades ago, Japanese businessman Tetsuhiko Fukutake, along with then mayor of Naoshima, Chikatsugu Miyake, had the idea to create an arts centre as a way to attract tourists to an…
Muses — protectors, predators, companions and food — animals have appeared in artworks since the beginning of art production. Since ancient depictions of bison in early cave paintings to the works of the Surrealists, and contemporaries beyond, creatures big and small have inspired some of the greatest artists of all time. From the reoccurring presence…
The weight of tradition can be quite overwhelming for some restaurants. Trapped between evolving, capricious consumer tastes and preserving history, celebrated restaurants emblematic of a city or style can rapidly go out of fashion entirely, or travel in the other direction and in catering for change, alienate their regulars by changing too much. There’s a…
India Art Fair has established itself as the leading platform to discover modern and contemporary art from South Asia. Taking place annually in New Delhi, under the directorship of Jaya Asokan, the fair reflects the nation’s flourishing art scene, while offering curated glimpses into the cultural landscapes of neighbouring countries. In anticipation of India Art…
Since 1994, Bow Arts has nurtured London’s burgeoning artistic talent, providing creative practitioners with subsidised workspace and mentoring. Their latest initiative, the East London Art Prize, celebrates and promotes art made in the cultural hub of east London. The award’s inaugural winner, Kat Anderson — selected by a panel of judges including artist Larry Achiampong…
I arrived in the town of Windischeschenbach, deep into windswept, snow-covered Bavarian countryside, to be greeted by a boarded-up train station, a steep hill, and an ice-covered pavement. I know I’m meant to be staying in someone’s house, and that house is also, for this weekend only, a pub. This might be one of my…