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…
This week, discover the story of Cymande, the pioneering self-taught South London band, Jayeeta Chatterjee’s new exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai, a thought-provoking Substack out of London, and one of the best books out there on the Memphis Group. If you like what you see, subscribe to the Something Curated newsletter. Jayeeta Chatterjee’s An Eye…
Something for the Week, our new column, returns. From a London Fashion Week first to Hmong-American photographer Pao Houa Her’s latest book, we highlight the events, exhibitions, films, and more that we think you, our readers, should know about. If you like what you see, subscribe to the Something Curated newsletter. DI PETSA at The…
Not much changes in Paris when it comes to wine bars and that’s a good thing. My favourite thing over the years has been to crawl from wine bar to wine bar cushioned by a lunch and/or dinner reservation and experience what a lot of cities around the world miss or get wrong. In places…
Welcome to Something for the Week, a new weekly column by the editors of Something Curated in which we highlight exhibitions, books, events, restaurants from across the world and reading material from across the internet (or in print) which we think you, our readers, should see, try, visit, or just check out. If you like…
Segovia is a province of juxtapositions. The vast open plain is constantly interrupted by sharp ravines, craggy rockfaces, and castle towns that spiral tightly upwards. Its long, harsh winters give way abruptly to fierce summers beneath scorching blue skies. Culinarily, it’s famous for long unctuous lunches of milk-fed lamb and suckling pig, but this overlooks…