Paris-based visual artist Carmen Badolian’s canvas is her body, an expressive ground where history, imagination, and emotions meet in skin. Each texture, reflection, and ray of light is an essential actor in what she refers to as her “visual accidents” — there is an almost surreal quality to her images, which blur the lines between…
On Friday 21 June, at the historic Hotel Le Marois in Paris, London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner unveiled the first edition of her new music series, Togetherness, during the city’s annual Fête de la Musique. This summer solstice celebration enlivens the city each year, aptly setting the scene for the designer’s latest musical initiative. Captured…
It’s a heatwave and I’m sitting in Bungee Space in Nolita drinking a guava cold brew from a glass with a rim coated with salted plum sugar thinking, why is New York so cool? So cool that this heatwave feels soothing. As I drink my cool coffee I’m thinking about the Matrix, and how this drink…
Unveiled at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman earlier this summer, Open Palm presents the Duho Pavilion, a monumental landscape installation conceived by Limbo Accra. Alongside an exclusive short film shot for Something Curated, Limbo Accra’s Co-founder and Director Dominique Petit-Frère shares her insights on the thinking behind the installation’s inauguration in the second entry of the two-part series, Duho Pavilion…
Unveiled at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman earlier this summer, Open Palm presents the Duho Pavilion, a monumental landscape installation conceived by Limbo Accra. Designed with landscape architect Malthe Mørck Clausen and curated by Keshav Anand, the installation builds on the spatial design studio’s unique approach to engaging with and reimagining in-between spaces. Delving further…
Nestled in the Colonia del Carmen neighbourhood of Coyoacán, Mexico City, the Frida Kahlo Museum — known as La Casa Azul owing to its striking cobalt blue walls — stands as a testament to the life and artistry of the iconic Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo. This historic home was not only her birthplace but also…
An extraordinary example of indigenous engineering, the traditional architecture of the Musgum or Mulwi people — an ethnic group from Chad and Cameroon — has for centuries provided inhabitants with pragmatic and beautiful living solutions. Mostly found in the plains of Cameroon, where wood and stone are relatively scarce, these housing complexes are made from…
Fossils stir people’s imaginations. Dinosaurs continue to be one of the main attractions of museums across the world, drawing crowds fascinated by these ancient creatures. Following a devastating fire that destroyed 85% of the collection of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ — the largest museum of natural history and anthropology in Brazil — the institution has recently…