Abidjan-based Ivorian-French artist and researcher Keren Lasme’s narrative rich practice traverses photography, film, writing and jewellery-making. The interdisciplinary creative earned an MA in African Studies from SOAS University of London with a major in African Philosophy. Offering a unique insight into the city she calls home, Lasme shares with Something Curated her whirlwind guide to…
Open now and running until 17 October 2021, Rome’s MAXXI museum presents a major retrospective exhibition on the late Italian architect Aldo Rossi (1931–1997). Born in Milan, Rossi was a dynamic, global practitioner and forward-thinking educator. In 1968, while teaching at the Politecnico di Milano, Rossi joined the student occupations – he was later suspended…
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…