Unpacking the differences between London and Paris is by now akin to pretending to your child that the Channel Tunnel has glass walls to see the fish: boring and quite sad. The differences between London and Parisian coffee culture, however, track with the factors that make Paris’s greatest restaurants great. Its most exciting cafés, like…
It’s become a habit among publishing professionals (or anyone with the faintest stated allegiance to literature, for that matter) to treat “true” books as an endangered species, an odd if cherished relic destined sooner or later to obsolescence. This might have less to do with any real, imminent threat (readers don’t seem to be disappearing…
Several years ago, a friend in London texted me a photo of what appeared to be a bulging bread roll stuffed with chocolate frosting, like some sort of mutant maritozzo. I couldn’t puzzle out what was going on, but then I read the caption: “Nutella bagel on Brick Lane.” London has its own distinct bagel…
Welcome back to Something for the Week — your weekly selection of things to look at, read, listen to, and experience across the arts. If you like what you see, consider subscribing to the Something Curated newsletter. Pipilotti Rist’s Prickling Goosebumps & A Humming Horizon at Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine, New York This is your…
Welcome back to Something for the Week — your weekly selection of things to look at, read, listen to, and experience across the arts. If you like what you see, consider subscribing to the Something Curated newsletter. 2.0: Jorinde Voigt & Xiyadie at P21, Seoul 2.0 is an exhibition that explores the physical and theoretical potential of…
Baroque-era features overlay cracked concrete on the exterior of a venue on a windy side street of Tokyo’s Shibuya district. As its front hints, this is no ordinary place. Inside Lion Café are velour seats facing an ornate altar on one side of the bar; with wooden speakers of impeccable acoustic quality sitting atop the bar…
Helen Rosslyn is the Director of the London Original Print Fair, which returns to Somerset House from 21–24 March 2024. Introduction I’ve been the Director of London Original Print Fair (LOPF) since 1987, joining shortly after the fair was founded in 1985 by Gordon Cooke. Now on our 39th edition, LOPF has become London’s longest…
Welcome back to Something for the Week — your weekly selection of things to see, read, listen to, and experience across the arts. If you like what you see, subscribe to the Something Curated newsletter. Shu Lea Cheang’s Scifi New Queer Cinema, 1994-2023 at Project Native Informant, London Taiwanese American artist Shu Lea Cheang has, in her decades…