5 Exemplary Tadao Ando Buildings You Should Know

Through five extraordinary projects, traverse the unique and illustrious output of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. Born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan, Ando was a boxer and professional fighter before settling on the occupation of…

Blackness As A Site Of Dreaming & Possibilities

Reflecting on the Hayward Gallery’s major summer show, In the Black Fantastic, which ran from 29 June –⁠18 September 2022, Ivorian-French multidisciplinary artist and writer Keren Lasme unpacks the ambitious exhibition’s highlights.   “This is the domain of the Strange, the Marvelous, and the Fantastic…” — Suzanne Césaire, Tropiques (1941). Affixed on one of the…

A Trip To Bangalore’s Historic Flower Market

Whether in rituals, prayers, birth, death, matrimony or medicine, flowers are ever present in Indian life. From offerings and hair braiding ornaments to Ayurvedic remedies and heady incense, flowers have been a part of the nation’s rich cultural history since the ancient times, and continue to serve a host of varied purposes from the functional…

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