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A Restaurant Lifeline, Five Years Later: How to Make Mangal 2’s Mackerel Pide
This was a big one at Mangal 2 during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mackerel pide pretty much kept the restaurant financially afloat for two whole months. Five years on, here’s the recipe for you. Serves 4 Mackerel Pide 4 Mackerel fillets (pinboned or V-cut and dried in the fridge for 24 hours)1 Turkish pide or large focaccia1…
Interview: Humour, History, and Intimacy in the Work of Dada Khanyisa
“Storytelling has always been part of my practice,” multi-disciplinary artist Dada Khanyisa shares with Something Curated’s Keshav Anand. “I was developing these characters during my time working in animation, and then I had a friend who had a BA in Fine Art who I was talking with. I was captivated, stimulated, by the things he…
Interview: In the Studio with Baseera Khan
Drawing from family archives, religions, and diverse cultural histories, New York-based artist Baseera Khan’s work engages with the emotional and political dimensions of colour and the economies of materials. Spanning oil painting, sculpture, and performance, their work probes the intersections of spirituality, labour, and commodification, all the while examining how these concepts shape identity. On…
Orange Wine, Great Coffee, and Mountain Cheese: A Gourmand’s Guide to Trieste
Many cities in Italy battle for the title of “The least Italian city,” and Trieste has always been a finisher. But to be honest, Trieste competes in a different league: Maybe it’s “the most foreign city in Italy.” Once the sole port of the Habsburg Empire (and for years the Adriatic’s busiest harbor), its strategic…
Interviews
Why Wafaa Bilal Is Sending a Bust of Saddam Hussein Into Orb...
On the occasion of Wafaa Bilal’s major new survey exhibition, Indulge Me, now open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and on view until 19 October 2025, Something Curated’s Keshav Anand sat down with the artist to learn more about his life and work. Bilal’s singular practice, provocative and deeply personal, straddles performance, technology,…
The Landscape Remembers: In Conversation with Painter Georg ...
London-based painter Georg Wilson’s practice is rooted in the rhythms of nature, paying homage to English folklore, and pastoral traditions of poetry and art. Responding to the seasons, she creates richly textured, atmospheric landscapes that exist beyond the human realm, inhabited instead by wildling creatures that live in harmony with the land. Through swirling, layered…
The Art of New Season Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A conversation about olive oil: the process, the quality, an idyllic rural pocket of the western Peloponnese, and creating a brand without intending to do so – Tom Woodgate and Juli Laki are behind Honest Toil, the company they founded 15 years ago; today it’s one of the most dynamic, well-known premium olive oils in Europe….
How to Make Apoorva Sripathi’s Vegetable Upma, a Delicious and Quick Savoury Breakfast
The fact that there is so much vitriol online is a given these days. That the majority of it is directed at upma (from time to time), a quick-to-make savoury breakfast dish, is undeserved. Talk about it to any South Indian child (or adult) and the response is the same: slander and hate about its…
The Sri Lankan Photographer Who Hid Queerness in Plain Sight
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…
Interview: With No Signs of Slowing Down, Kim Yun Shin Reflects on 70 Years of Making Art
Kim Yun Shin has spent 70 years building a resonant artistic language that bridges sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Her deeply meditative practice explores the fundamental interplay between addition and division—concepts that guide her process and help frame her lifelong engagement with nature, material, and time. Following the presentation of her work at the 60th Venice…
How to Make Rodrigo Cervantes’ Unifying, Ingenious Pastel Azteca
My parents divorced 20 years ago and to this day whenever I speak to my dad he asks me for my mother’s recipe for pastel Azteca (Aztec cake). My mother, on the other hand, barely remembers ever making it, or even eating one for that matter. What’s more, unfortunately she threw away her old recipe…
Guides
An Insider’s Guide to Bangkok’s Galleries, Marke...
Bangkok: The city summons a set of preconceptions for the first-time traveller. Chaotic, unrelenting, hedonistic. But most cities exist in the gaps between binaries. In my years spent living and wandering in Bangkok, I have grown to appreciate a metropolis that is abundant in life, creativity and industriousness. The impact of mass tourism is indelible…
The Best from Sharjah Biennial 16: An On the Ground Guide
The morning sun is bright but I’m surprised by how cool the air is. Arriving early at Al Mureijah Square, I realise I’m underclad for my first tour of Sharjah Biennial 16 (SB16). Titled to carry, the Biennial presents over 650 works by nearly 200 artists, including Alia Farid, Citra Sasmita, and Himali Singh Soin….
Reading List: Five Books to Read This Month
January is the moment of New Year resolutions. “I will hit the gym and scroll less, I will stop binge TV shows and read more,” I tell myself … Let’s see, I suppose. We can but try. With that, here’s a quite eclectic selection of the best books published in the last month to help…
Design in the Moment: Furniture by the Geoffrey Bawa Practice
Design in the Moment: Furniture by the Geoffrey Bawa Practice, open now and on view until 31 May 2025 at The Bawa Space in Colombo, offers a rare glimpse into the innovative and deeply contextual furniture designs of one of Asia’s most celebrated architects. Curated by architect Channa Daswatte, Chairperson of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust,…
The Intimate Printmaking of Poppy Jones
Marking the release of artist Poppy Jones’ eponymous first monograph, published by Zolo Press, Something Curated shares an exclusive excerpt from the new book. Spotlighting ninety works made over the past four years, the monograph is foregrounded by a conversation between Jones and Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema—a segment of which can be read below….
Paris Hilton’s Archive Sale and the Growing Number of Celebrities Selling Clothes Online
‘Walk, don’t run’ might have been the caption announcing Paris Hilton’s archive sale earlier this month. Set up to raise money for those effected by the fires in LA earlier this year, Hilton sold off 97 pieces. The sale was on Vestiaire Collective but, with items made of Y2K dreams, it would have been the…
Chandralekha: The Rebel Choreographer Who Redefined Indian Dance
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…
From The Archive
Meet Harris Dickinson, the Compelling Lead Actor of ‘B...
British actor Harris Dickinson plays the lead role in Eliza Hittman’s critically acclaimed Beach Rats, which chronicles a young man’s struggle with his sexuality over the course of a summer, amid the stultifying machismo of outer Brooklyn. Opening in select theatres on 24 November, the film follows Frankie, portrayed by Dickinson, as he roams the…
Interview: Ernesto Neto On Gravity, Togetherness & The ...
Since the 1990s, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has produced an inimitable body of work that is in equal parts informed by sensuality and spirituality. Inspired by the Brazilian Conceptualists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, as well as biomorphism, Minimalism and Arte Povera, Neto’s works engage all of our senses while asserting the human body as…
SC Exclusive: Notes on a Siren — a Film Essay by Justice Jam...
Director Justice Jamal Jones joins myth with modern themes of Black queerness and trans identity in their latest film, Notes on a Siren. Presented by Something Curated, and exclusively premiering on the site, the film was shot on location at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman. Jones expands on the thinking behind their mesmerising work below….