"But daddy, I only like hoovers with a name"
Clockwise from top: Amanda Ba at Guts Gallery; Beloved Henry; Vinca Petersen at Edel Assanti.
This Week
💦 As the weather heats up, the art world cooools down
💦 Beauty tips from Lucas Zwirner
💦 Spittle gets into the cracks and crevices on view at Karma, NYC
Events, 27 July - 2 August
This week sees the final degree show on our list - look out for friends of the newsletter Ranald Macdonald and Harriet Gillett’s paintings; Chilean artist Manuel Peralta Lorca’s show at hot new gallery piloto pardo in Bethnal Green; and James Capper’s ambitious mobile sculpture travelling the Thames on Saturday afternoon
Don’t miss:
🧊 27 July | Opening 11am - 6pm | City and Guilds BA/MA Degree Show, Bargehouse, South Bank [Waterloo] | Exhibition runs through 31 July. Free
🧊 28 July | Opening 7 - 9pm | Correos de Chile, Manuel Peralta Lorca, piloto pardo [Bethnal Green] | Exhibition runs through 25 August. Free
🧊 28 July | Opening 6 - 9pm | Friends with Benefits, Safe House One, SE15 3SN [Peckham Rye] | Exhibition runs through 31 July. Free
🧊 29 July | Opening 1 - 8pm | Electric Avenue, Megan Plunkett, Emalin, [Shoreditch] | Exhibition runs through 11 September. Free
🧊 29 July | Opening 6 - 9 pm | Emergence, Rise Art, W1F 8RD [Oxford Circus] | Exhibition runs through 17 September. Free
🧊 29 July | Opening 12 - 6pm | a rant! a reel!, Ray Camara, Cubitt Gallery, N1 9HH [Angel] | Exhibition runs through 19 September. Free
🧊 31 July | Starts 12pm | MUDSKIPPER, James Capper (mobile sculpture travelling the Thames), on the river near Chelsea Bridge car park [Battersea Park] | Free
🧊 31 July | 1pm & 4pm | Terror Nullius, Soda Jerk Film Screening, V.O. Curations, W1S 2YZ [Oxford Circus] | Free
Exhibitions of the Week
A New Art World, Guts Gallery, Stoke Newington, until 29 July 2021, information here
Amanda Ba’s incredibly layered painting in Guts Gallery’s ‘A New Art World’ - never has cadmium red looked so good. Apparently, the work was sold before the gallery even sent out the show preview. We weren’t sure about the exhibition’s curatorial premise—why only paintings?!—but the show brings together some of London’s brightest young stars.
Vinca Petersen: Raves and Riots, Edel Assanti, Fitzrovia, until 27 August 2021, information here
Visiting a show about the 90s rave scene felt somewhat apt this week, as parties (paid for or otherwise) can now legally take place! Vinca Petersen’s Raves and Riots at Edel Assanti is imbued with deep nostalgia and tenderness, and had us yearning for a time we’ll never remember.
And it’s the last week before summer break! Some highlights not to miss:
Closing 31 July: Roe Ethridge at Greengrassi; Frank Bowling and Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth; Shannon Cartier Lucy at Soft Opening; Yinka Shonibare and Leila Babirye at Stephen Friedman; Robert Rauschenberg and Tom Sachs at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac; and Sheila Hicks at Alison Jacques.
Hot Links
💨 What’s red and black and sucks with a smile? - Inventor of Britain’s quirkiest hoover (Henry) dishes the dirt on how he built the world’s most adorable cleaning device.
🔥 No one know’s Woodstock ‘99 was the original fire festival - Raunch culture was outta control at the turn of the century and Woodstock ‘99 was pretty much the apex, including but not limited to death, groping and torching the stages.
👮♀️Behavioural Detection (?!) Officer Opportunity - Startling V&A security guard job description written by George Orwell, click here to apply.
🧼 Want locks like Lucas? - Details of the Zwirner Family shampoo have been leaked by Lucas Zwirner. Came for the shampoo recommendation, left quite satisfied that ‘Schuppen’ is German for Dandruff, much sexier.
😻 “More Mad magazine than Mondrian” - Glorious studio visit and interview with the inimitable/legendary artist Peter Saul and his tendency to “slaughter modern art’s sacred cows”.
🗑 Birth, Death and Photo Dumps - The Trend from 2020 that’s clogging up our digestive systems: the photo dump and the sociological reasons why it came, but is it here to stay?
Edition of the Week
One of the best ~ online ~ exhibitions we’ve seen this year is Karma’s expansive display of Lee Lozano’s drawings from 1959–64. On the occasion of the show, a gorgeous hardback has been produced featuring texts by Tamar Garb and Helen Molesworth. Cocks, screwdrivers, religious icons, lollipops, aeroplanes—these excoriating drawings have it all. Already made the Christmas list. $75, pre-order from Karma.
Parting Shot
Lydia Blakely attempts to put @freeze_magazine out of action by straying into the memes-as-art debate. Whatever this is, it’s still better than an NFT…
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