“Brooklyn Beckham gouging the creamy heart”

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This week

💦 The Pasta Boyfriend’s Pasta Boyfriend

💦 cringey and politically troubling books

💦 more spoken word events!

Events

Hot girls only this week! Go get em cuties 💋 x

🧊 1 April | 7pm | Low relief and effort on April fools, Tom Hardwick Allan Performance Evening, South Parade [Farringdon]

🧊 1 April | 5:30-6:30pm | Matt Carey-Williams in conversation with Polly Morgan [Marble Arch]

🧊 Opens 2 April | Ed Atkins, Tate Britain [Pimlico]

🧊 3 April | 6-8pm | Songs Before Sunrise, including Oliver Bak, Guglielmo Castelli, Anne Imhof and Rosemarie Trockel, among others, Spruth Magers [Green Park]

🧊 5 April | 6-9pm | Andy Wyatt: All, Worse [New Cross]

Hot links

🍝 “The Pasta Boyfriend’s Pasta Boyfriend” - By coining the term ‘Pasta boyfriend,’ Vittles has summarised a very specific sub-type of performative, instagram loving, micro-beanie wearing man which has emerged in the last few years. Personally, we blame Covid for giving these boys the time to hone their gnocchi-rolling technique, but their presence has only grown on insta (and hinge) since. In a fabulous text from last week, Hester van Hensbergen reviews ex-mob kitchen Jordon Ezra King’s pop-up at The Standard. It sounds like an instagram circle-jerk we don’t want to be invited to. Thank you, van Hensbergen, for going where we don’t dare.

🍝 “you ate the whole thing – the drawing included” - ahead of his Tate opening, spittle’s all-time fave Ed Atkins sat down with Hans Ulrich Obrist for Frieze’s latest issue, which focuses on video art. In it, they discuss how Atkins turned to video, his love for eating post-its on toast, and the omnipresence of the double in his artwork.

🍝 “Think Jesse Helms calling Robert Mapplethorpe’s artwork ‘garbage’ on the floor of the Senate” - Nate Freeman in Vanity Fair asks whether the Trump “administration will take the logical next step of the DOGE-ification of the US Government’s art collection—and sell it?” as well as reminding us of Andy Warhol’s iconic quip after their first meeting: “I think Trump’s sort of cheap, though, I get that feeling.”

🍝 “we are apparently living through the oppressive revival of the straight white twink” - in Plaster, Billy Parker explores a microtrend, new to us: the ripped tousle-haired male thirst trap in which they push their own questionable art for cash. “What you’re buying into,” says Parker, “is a physical manifestation of the adoration of the idol: the chance to own a sexually charged part of someone else, even if it is a dry humped Basquiat rip-off.”

🍝 ‘‘Not Only Cringey but Politically Troubling’ - In ArtReview, Hannah Proctor did not enjoy Vogueish philosopher Paul B. Preciado’s new book Dysphoria Mundi, for many reasons, one of which is “a series of pseudo-Catholic ‘funeral prayers’ whose liturgical nature is never explained. These ‘prayers’ are structured as lists, seemingly governed by a private logic of free associations”... meow! But fab piece x

🍝 “Cleavages were deeper than ever” - gorg to see Hannah Tindle on the legacy of Donatella Verace in Frieze and how Jennifer Lopez’s neckline apparently was “​​an event which ultimately led to the birth of Google images”, stunning!

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Ahead of her anticipated late night opening next Tuesday at the ICA, Nora Turato has released a stunning edition simply reading: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

This would make a totally fab gift for a discerning dentist friend x Available for €500 via Kunsthalle Wien, here

Parting shot

So many questions about Sock House Meeting’s recent ‘Art People’ meme. Do people actually go to Chelsea Arts Club? What does ‘Che Schifo’ mean? Isn’t Michele Lamy a fashion person? Do we still call cigarettes blems? And what’s happening in Bristol Temple Meads???????

Despite his best efforts we can’t help but wonder… how could monsieur socks get it so wrong?