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This week
💦 the last alpha patriarch
💦 hot show at new culty art spot Casa Italiana
💦 the gray area between dinner parties and hardcore fucking
Events
🧊 15 July | 6.30-9pm | Soliloquy Presentation 25_1, Royal Academy Schools [Green Park] RSVPs to info@soliloquy.art
🧊 16 July | 6-8pm | Glory Box, presented by Working Class Creatives, The Shop at Sadie Coles [Oxford Circus]
🧊 17 July | 6-11pm | I Like Italy and Italy Likes Me, curated by Leonie Herweg including Florence Carr, Nat Faulkner, Zazou Roddam and more | Casa Italiana [Clerkwenwell]
🧊 17 July | 6-8pm | Bernice Mulenga: LMK WHEN U REACH, Auto Italia [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 19-20 July | 11am-6pm | Stems (independent book fair), Helen Marten’s studio, 55 Laburnum Street, E2 8BD
🧊 19 July | 6-9pm | Benjamin Slinger: Love, Season 4 Episode 6 [Regent’s Park]
Hot links
🙁 “There were promotional flyers featuring the You Guys are Getting Paid meme” – brutal review by Jenny Wu, nonchalantly dissecting R U Still Painting??? a group show curated by (unknown collective) FALCON in an attempt to recreate Bernadette Corporation-esque identity shapeshifting and appropriation culture… but instead created something “brazenly sloppy” and “perfectly generic”... ouchies x
😳 “it makes you transsexual if you eat it” – Whitney Mallett interviews food collective Spiral Theory (Precious Okoyomon, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, and quori theodor) for Spike about serving sundaes in a slime pool, the gray area between dinner parties and hardcore fucking, and having thoughts like: “I’m gonna put dirt in food.” if we could have one Spiral Theory dinner before we die, we would die happy
🤠 “Two of the last remaining Art Daddies have packed up their tailored blazers and stepped away from the scene” – iconic substack The Art Daddy covers recent shock retirements, from art daddies in their prime Tim Blum and Adam Lindemann from Venus over Manhattan, calling these “an era-defining unraveling” and concluding that soon all we are gonna have left is… Larry Gagosian “the last alpha patriarch—or the final denial before a generational handoff the art world refuses to plan for?”. the dramaaaaa darlings !
😡 “documentary as weapon” – Stop ! Suppressing ! Our documentaries ! (we screech, as yet another falls victim to censorship by our rubbish government/national broadcasters or worse - always with desperately sad voluntary group UKlawyers4Israel in the back channels… history will be the judge of those guys). Finn Blythe examines how in certain cases documentary becomes not just witness, but weapon… a call to arms!!!!
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Kenny Schachter’s sixth ‘Hoarder’ auction has come up on the block at Phillips, and apart from the obvious question – which galleries (and artists) are still selling him art and why? – one has to wonder who is lusting after his 10 pairs of Adidas vintage sweatpants which are also included amongst lots by Chris Ofili, Issy Wood, and Rachel Harrison… estimate $200-300, bids here for those Y2K/90s fashion divas that also want to know what KS’s laundry smells like?
Parting Shot
Not to get all ‘@whos____who’ about it but something… feels… familiar…
no… what a compliment x we LOVE
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