Radical in her approach to both art and life, pioneering dancer, choreographer, poet, and activist Chandralekha challenged longstanding structures that defined the field of dance in India, upturning rules that endured centuries, smudging the boundaries between art forms, and creating a distinct practice that was modern, unequivocally feminist, and secular in its ethos. Born Chandralekha…
“I love objects and I like to collect,” the artist Rahill Jamalifard tells me early on in our video call one cold January afternoon this year. For decades, first in Manhattan and more recently at the home she shares with her partner in New Lebanon, upstate New York, Rahill has been accumulating records, books, t-shirts,…
Opening next month—and on view from 20 March to 27 July 2025—London’s Serpentine will host the first major UK exhibition of one of India’s most prolific contemporary painters. Elaborate and richly coloured, Arpita Singh’s works are labyrinths of memory, myth, and observation. Ahead of her new presentation, Something Curated explores the life and work of…
Anna Tobias is one of London’s chef’s chefs – a well-respected cook with one of the clearest culinary identities in the city. Her restaurant Café Deco is the quietly brilliant culmination of Tobias’ work, since 2008, with a succession of London’s most celebrated chefs – across the world’s of Modern British and European cuisine: Jeremy Lee at…
“Supper clubs are quite special because they’re very intimate and small and I’m able to physically be in the same space as the diners and explain every single dish. It’s a very different experience than in a restaurant…I’m basically giving a lecture while the meal’s taking place,” chef Charlene Luo says. “It’s educational and it’s…
A transformative figure in America’s contemporary art landscape, Lorraine O’Grady’s contributions—developed over the course of a nearly five-decade spanning career—redefined the parameters of conceptual and performance art. Last week, on 13 December 2024, O’Grady passed away of natural causes at her home in Manhattan, aged 90. Her work reminds us that art is not merely…
Alice Norman’s culinary journey began at the renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland, where she developed a deep passion for food, putting her hand to farming to baking. Soon after completing two courses at the school, she began working her first job in hospitality with team at modern Indian restaurant Kricket in Brixton. She would…
Born in 1919 to an affluent family in Colombo, Sri Lanka — then British Ceylon — the pioneering architect Geoffrey Bawa was originally steered into a career in law by his father, a prominent barrister keen for his son to follow in his footsteps. Adhering to his parents’ wishes, a young Bawa relocated to England…