For one night only, Whitechapel Gallery and a number of nearby spaces in East London will be transformed by new installations, films, live performances, music and culinary experiences for the third edition of Nocturnal Creatures. The festival’s curators, Emily Butler, Wells Fray-Smith and Inês Costa, tell Something Curated: “We’re thrilled that Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery’s…
Frieze reveals details of the inaugural programme for No.9 Cork Street, the art organisation’s major new initiative, offering flexible exhibition space for visiting galleries in the heart of Mayfair, London. Launching 7 October, the Matheson Whiteley-designed gallery opens with ambitious exhibitions from James Cohan, Commonwealth and Council and Proyectos Ultravioleta, running through 23 October 2021….
Today, John Alexander Skelton releases his Spring/Summer 2022 collection, captured through film and stills in the designer’s native North Yorkshire. Skelton frequently utilises recycled fabrics such as antique bed sheets and old grain sacks, often found in markets, customising these materials through hand-dying, over-washing, painting and patching techniques. This season, owing to the constraints of…
While its in-person events are imminently set to resume, Art Basel is not showing signs of slowing down its digital initiatives anytime soon. On view from 16-19 June and featuring 94 galleries from 29 countries and territories, ‘OVR: Portals’ is Art Basel’s first curator-led online iteration. Here, participating galleries are presenting thoughtfully curated solo and…
Presented by Sadie Coles HQ and running through June, the view from there is a pop-up exhibition of twenty-seven films from around the world shown in a former retail space on London’s Regent Street. The exhibition can be viewed from the street on a 24-hour basis, as well as inside the space during normal gallery…
The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Lebanese educator and practitioner Hashim Sarkis brings together 61 national pavilions connected to the theme of How Will We Live Together?. A timely subject, which has been further intensified by recent global events, the curator has asked its participants to imagine spaces where, “We can generously live together.” Two…
Liverpool Biennial is the largest and longest-running festival of contemporary visual art in the UK. Since its inception in 1998, the Biennial has become renowned in the international contemporary art world, bringing together a wide array of voices and artistic practices. Taking place every two years, the events activate public institutions, historical sites and locations…
The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, established in 1985 by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, the founder of Focal Press, have announced the winners of the 2021 edition of the esteemed prize. The books shortlisted for this year’s Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award address diverse global issues relating to race, justice and identity. Ranging from illuminating artist…