In the sweltering heat, a figure shimmers onstage in Port of Spain, like something from a fever dream. It’s Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad, 1982. Two enormous wings, stretched over ten feet wide, iridescent and trembling, are attached to a golden man. The costume, Papillon, donned by eight time King of Carnival Peter Samuel, was designed…
Ryan Chetiyawardana—better known across the world’s drinks industry as Mr Lyan—is the visionary bar owner who has sought to redesign cocktail as a craft through a fusion of science, art, and sustainability. He was brought up in Birmingham by a pastry‑chef mother, where immersed himself in food, art, and biology from a young age, later studying…
Bokman, a small neighbourhood Korean restaurant in Bristol’s (and Banksy’s) Stokes Croft, is serving some of the best food in the U.K. Dongnae, a new neighbourhood spot further north in Redlands, isn’t far behind. Both are the creation of chef-owners Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson whose culinary alliance was forged in Paris – at the…
“A picture is no more than a mirror, a vehicle that takes one back to one’s self, to turn one’s sight inwards to find the self within,” writes artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Detailed and contemplative, his layered paintings feel at times like workings-out, arithmetic in brushstrokes. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, El-Salahi is a pioneer…
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,…