Calum Jacobs is best known for his seminal work on the importance of Black footballers and Black culture in the evolution of modern football: through his magazine, Caricom, and debut book A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game, Jacobs has upended stereotypes, spoken for a generation, and written into history the significance…
Chef Behzad Jamshidi began his career in 2016 when he moved from Vancouver BC to New York, the city he still calls home. After working in some of the city’s most well-known and celebrated kitchens, in 2018, Jamshidi started the Moosh platform to create what he calls more “meaningful collaborations and representation for the marginalised…
Born in 1923 in Ciudad Bolívar, southeastern Venezuela, Jesús Rafael Soto began his artistic career as an illusionistic painter. Today, he is best known for his large-scale immersive sculptures that consist of numerous suspended elements, through which viewers can physically navigate — or as he puts, “penetrate.” Soto’s ingenious environments manipulate the interaction of solidity…
Dean Edmonds is a man obsessed with tradition, preservation, utility, and, perhaps more than anything else – ritual. With his life and business partner Natsumi Sashida, whom he happily spends most of every day, Edmonds runs his eponymous furniture and product design brand, known for its idiosyncratic industrial metal work as well as more classical…
A true multidisciplinarian, Brazilian composer, singer, designer and visual artist Heitor dos Prazeres was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1898. A pioneer of samba — music that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, continuing its development through the urban communities of Rio — dos…
The Neo-Dada Organizers’ destructive activities, often centred on the demolition of art objects, prompted critic Yoshiaki Tōno to coin the Japanese term “han-geijutsu,” translating in English to “anti-art.” In 1960, Japanese conceptual artist Masunobu Yoshimura founded the controversial art collective. Widely abbreviated to Neo-Dada, the group would meet at Yoshimura’s studio in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to…
The journey of Mitshel Ibrahim’s Ombra – a small Italian trattoria on the corner of Vyner Street in east London – is unique, a restaurant which in 2023 is defined by its extraordinary dynamism and adaptability through the COVID-19 pandemic. Before March 2020, Ibrahim ran a successful neighbourhood Italian restaurant, whose most notable moment had come after…
During the course of the last three years, Adejoké – Joké – Bakare has emerged as one of London’s most important chefs. Her restaurant brand Chishuru, which came to life in Brixton Market in 2021, after the chef won a competition, has helped to deepen the city’s understand of Nigerian cuisine, specifically, and West African culinary culture…