Dan Martensen embodies the vibrant energy of his native New York, a whirlwind of passion for family, friends, music, and the city’s cultural fabric. He brings that same passion to his dual vocations: photography and bagels. He moves quickly, recounting significant moments from his life, including interactions with some of the world’s most famous names….
A man’s hand reaches towards an electric light source, his fingers tentatively caressing the glow, obscuring and revealing it at once. The image described is Lionel Wendt’s Bachelor Cruising South, shot in the mid-1930s. The photograph is quietly suggestive, its title a little less subtle, alluding to the pursuit of casual sexual encounters. It is…
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…