Berlin’s swiftly expanding culinary offering is shining a light on a number of exciting and largely underrepresented cuisines within the city. From reimagined Sri Lankan staples and regional Thai favourites, to Mexican home cooking and Nordic baking, there is a strong focus on regional and seasonal produce underpinning and ultimately shaping the diverse offer. Unafraid…
Compared to the wealth of literature dealing with modern art in the West, the scholarly and literary contributions to modern Arab art are scarce. Despite the lack of historical perspectives and accounts, the field is developing thanks to a number of active researchers and scholars and an increasing institutional support from regional and international organisations….
Curated by New York-based Italian curator Cecilia Alemani, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes its title The Milk of Dreams from a book of drawings by the surrealist Leonora Carrington, in which the artist describes a world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination, where everyone…
Running from 5–8 May 2022, Independent Art Fair is set to return to New York with a programme led by Founding Curatorial Advisor Matthew Higgs and co-produced in collaboration with leading galleries, non-profits and museums worldwide, showing work by over two hundred commissioned artists. Embracing a hybrid model for storytelling, the fair will continue to…
Programmed by Cinema Curator Matthew Barrington, Journeys across Afro-Futurism, a new season of film, launches at Barbican Cinema this June, looking at the origins of Afro-Futurism and exploring how the traditions of the aesthetic impact cinema today. Barrington explains: “Afro-Futurism for me, as an idea, is a wonderfully rich one which engages with the politics…
Plans have been revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Set within Serpentine’s grounds in Kensington Gardens, Black Chapel takes on sculptural qualities, building on Gates’ interest in fashioning clay objects, as well as reflecting the artist’s exploration of space-making. Gates creates works that engage with space theory,…
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora, has announced its return to Paris, set to take place over four days from 7–10 April 2022. The ambitious presentation will be hosted at Christie’s on Avenue Matignon and will feature 22 international exhibitors. The…
Opening on 19 February and running until 15 May 2022, leading contemporary artist Jenny Holzer has curated an exhibition of works by the late Louise Bourgeois, an immensely influential figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Holzer is known for her exploration and subversion of language through the use of unexpected forms, while Bourgeois’ psychologically…