KARABA Brings Soulful Storytelling to the Global Afro-House Scene
KARABA has been making waves in the global electronic music scene since she released her first EP, Déliverance, in 2022, followed by the EP Souvenirs in 2023. Growing up in France until age seven, when her family immigrated to Montreal, KARABA’s childhood was steeped in music. Her Congolese fathe
Shaping a New Era for South Asian Art
In her role as Head of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at Sotheby’s, Manjari Sihare-Sutin has become agnostic when it comes to time zones. “Our field is so global. My day often begins with India, shifts to the United Kingdom by midday, and ends with the United States.” It tracks that S
Doha Rising: Qatar’s Art Scene Goes Global
To say that the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) has grown in scope and stature over the last 50 years would be a colossal understatement. When the Qatar National Museum, as it was then called, opened in 1975, it was housed in the defunct palace of a former emir and contained archaeological relics th
How Luxury Retailers Use Fine Art to Create Cultural Cachet
There was a time when a person’s cultural bragging rights stemmed from counting off the number of classic masterpieces seen in museums around the world. The Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Velazquez’s Las Meninas at the Prado, the David at Galleria dell’Accademia, van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with a St
Why Arthouse Cinemas Matter More Than Ever
In June 2024, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro posted an urgent plea to halt the closure of the beloved independent cinema, The Revue, located in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood. After imploring mayor Olivia Chow to step in, he took matters into his own hands with a post on
From The Screen To Your Table, How Cinema Impacts What We Eat
From the making of the restaurant-rescuing timpano in 1996’s Big Night to the egg yolk that gets passed between a yakuza gangster and his lover during a very open-mouthed make-out in 1985’s Tampopo, to the intricate and rhythmic opening cooking scene in 1994’s Eat Drink Man Woman, some of cine
Fashion for Art’s Sake
Haute couture has typically been reserved for the runways—and the one per cent. But this summer, fine design and tailoring are exposing themselves to the masses, thanks to exhibits in some of the world’s most famous museums. Classic maisons of differing métiers as well as prolific visual artist
Behind The Movement To Return Stolen Artifacts To Their Homes
When the Turkish government gave amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann permission to dig up a coastal section of what is now the Biga Peninsula in northwest Anatolia in 1878, they couldn’t have imagined that Schliemann would smuggle some of the most valuable artifacts unearthed there back to h
The Asian Art Market Is Thriving — Meet The Man Behind Its Boom
Jonathan Crockett still remembers the very first time he walked into an auction. It was an evening sale in the autumn of 2003 at the infamous Christie’s on King Street in London, the global headquarters of the world’s oldest fine art auctioneer. The room was, of course, packed with people, poten
Drawing Outside the Lines: How Zoe Si is Changing the Face of Cartooning
When Zoe Si published her first cartoon in The New Yorker in early 2020, she joined an elite group of artists whose work graces the storied magazine’s pages. But for the Vancouver-based cartoonist, who had only recently left a career in family law, the milestone wasn’t just a personal victory, i
