Brother and sister duo Missy and Cameron Flynn don’t just care about nice drinks. Sure, through their Malik Acid, which they co-run they make some of the best (and best-looking) cocktails around—to the extent that they’ve become the go-to boutique agency for some of the biggest legacy and most now fashion brands and restaurants around:…
As The Guardian’s chief theatre critic, it is perhaps inevitable that Arifa Akbar’s works of narrative nonfiction are unbuttoned from the constrictions of a single genre or perspective. Her second book Wolf Moon: A Woman’s Journey into the Night follows in the footsteps of her acclaimed memoir Consumed: A Sister’s Story by establishing a form…
Okiki Akinfe paints from the in-between: the layered, often contradictory spaces where Britishness and Nigerian identity rub up against one another. Based in London, Akinfe’s work draws on personal memory, pop culture and academic research to question what it means to belong – and what it means to be seen. After studying painting at the…
Whether it’s artists, filmmakers, gallerists, musicians, chefs, or authors, Something Curated is always aiming to bring you illuminating and often-times wide-ranging conversations with those at the cutting edge of the arts and culture. Here’s a selection of our favourites from 2025 so far. And we can promise you can look forward to many more to…
Following their recent collaboration on Whispering Silence, a solo exhibition at Inspection Pit in West Sussex, artist Marnie Weber and curator Phoebe Ahern sit down to discuss some of the recurring themes in Weber’s work — from ageing and femininity to the performance of identity. Together, they reflect on Weber’s practice and how she subverts…
Born in Germany but writing in English, Katharina Volckmer is one of a handful of female contemporary writers (another being Missouri Williams) who still loves to antagonise the reader and shatter a few taboos along the way. Her first novella The Appointment—published by Fitzcarraldo in 2020 and recently brought to the stage by Call My…
“I had this idea – I wanted to stage an exhibition after my death. Five years later: Bernar Venet: New Works. He’s dead, but there’s new work. And then I thought, actually, I’m in too much of a hurry!” French artist Bernar Venet is laughing but the idea is completely serious. With the help of…
For over two decades, London-based German artist Nicole Wermers has honed a singular sculptural practice that navigates the intersection of design, architecture, and the social politics of space. Known for her precise juxtapositions of found and fabricated forms, Wermers explores the structures that shape urban life and the hierarchies that govern bodily presence within them….