“clip-on Lost Mary vape”
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This week
💦 semi-professional fake Prada suits
💦 off-the-record information (relayed over wine)
💦 an unbelievably powerful bitch
Events
Things are fairly quiet but picking up after the post-Frieze lul. Sin Wai Kin’s solo show at Soft Opening looks like the hot ticket of the week x
🧊 24 Oct | 7pm | McKenzie Wark and Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money, Sex and Death (Conversation), London Review Bookshop [Holborn] | £10, tickets here.
🧊 24 Oct | 7–9pm | Book launch: Italian Art since 2000, Camden Art Centre [Finchley Road & Frognal]
🧊 25 Oct | 7pm | Late opening of Lagos, Peckham, Repeat, plus tour by Margot Heller, South London Gallery [Peckham Rye]
🧊 26 Oct | 6–9pm | Neptune’s Laundrette, Sandman Mattresses, 48 Falcon Road, SW11 2LR [Clapham]
🧊 26 Oct | 6–8pm | Sin Wai Kin: Portraits, Soft Opening [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 26 Oct | 6–8pm | Phoebe Collings James: bun babylon; a heretics anthology, Finissage & Book Launch, Arcadia Missa [Bond Street]
🧊 27 Oct | 5–7.30pm | Max Hooper Schneider: Twilight at the Earth’s Crust, Maureen Paley, 60 Three Colts Lane [Bethnal Green]
🧊 27 Oct | 7pm | Wang Bing’s Man in Black Screening & Q&A, ICA [Charing Cross]
🧊 27 Oct | Collective Freedom: A night raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Ormside Projects [South Bermondsey] | £12
🧊 28 Oct | 6–9pm | Disneyland Past-Life, including Billie Clarken, Jamie Davies, and Lucy Neish, GROVE [Battersea]
Cute round up x
Prem Sahib: The Life Cycle of a Flea, Phillida Reid, until 8 November, info here
Come for the creepy exhibition text which images a parasitic flea following a child, stay for the zombie objects: inverted urine-coloured street lamps, ghost-driven scooters, Kafka-esque coffee tables among them
Pablo Bronstein: Cakehole, Herald St, until 18 November, info here
Come to see what architectural prankster Pablo Bronstein has been up to recently, stay for the opulent gilded frames housing ludicrously camp mediaeval-cum-goutcore paintings of jelly, oysters and yorkshire puds x
Phoebe Collings-James: bun babylon; a heretics anthology, Arcadia Missa, until 28 October, info here
Come for the material realisation of language, inspired by Babylonian and Sumerian tablets, stay for the heretic characters cast in clay, which challenge Euro-centric hierarchies of knowledge xoxo
Grace Woodcock: 23.5°, Castor Gallery, until 18 November, info here
Come for the shell-like sculptures inspired by the body, the earth and J G Ballard’s speculative fiction, stay for the mildly vertigo-inducing axial tilt
Oscar Enberg: Schiller’s skull; mysterious vessel, Brunette Coleman until 10 November, info here
Come to bask in a bonafide masterclass in materiality, stay for beaver felled tree log, cow knee cap and actual racoon bone
Louis Blue Newby: Deep Inside, Soft Opening until October next, info here
Come for hot guys on public display, stay for the screen printed design in Crisco vegetable fat and free advice: all you need is love and a condom x
Hot Links
👔 “Never fuck anyone who doesn’t have a clean blazer” – says Jamian Juliano Villani in a short article for Cultured on seven rules to live by. Our fave: ‘Never ask advice from lawyers or doctors. They look for problems, not for how to solve them.’ So true
💋 “Gossip in the context of art is basically quiet luxury” – Laurie Barron explores the potent currency of gossip in a feature for Plaster. ‘Gossip in the arts is called insider trading in any other industry,’ says spittle fave and friend-of-the-’sletter Ana Viktoria Dzinic…
👢 “When I ask what she does to relax, her answer is ‘no’.” – The definitive Miuccia Prada profile has arrived in T Magazine. Describing the purpose of her custom Carsten Holler slide in her Milan office, we learn it is to be able to ‘leave quickly, [while] glancing at the people working [for her] and then landing where her chauffeur is waiting’ and also to easily ‘get rid of people’.
💰 “I just keep thinking: how big is my bag? No, I’m kidding.” – Mommy bloggers! Prehistoric YouTubers! Skintellectuals! Britney Spears! Paris Hilton! Amanda Knox! Impeachment! You name it, Monica Lewinsky and Taylor Lorenz talk about it - covering vilification, the 90s and how women be making money online in this lively chat for The Guardian.
🧃 “What’s the deal with adjectives?” – Joanna Walsh dives deep into fashion theory on ‘what makes a classic’ [item of clothing] for Spike, writing ‘The idea is not to look like you actually work at that specific job, but that you’ve juiced it for its “adjectives”’... Overjoyed to infer we’ve being doing the right thing and satirically appropriating contemporary workwear for years! It’s a lifestyle kids x
🩹 “That gouty collector wants to know where his Alex Katz is, and pronto!” – Joe Bobowicz dishes the dirt on Frieze week parties, also for Plaster. Read on to find out why ‘slider burgers are a blessing and a curse’ and to hear that ‘tote bags are finally done’ first, and spittle-fave gallerist Helen Neven’s enviable outfit composed of: ‘Y2K It-bag, clip-on Lost Mary vape and jewellery by Leo Costelloe.’ Slay!
Add-to-cart
One (drama-loving, prone-to-exaggeration) artist said to us yesterday that the year was basically over. Bitch it’s 10 weeks ‘til Christmas and we plan on enjoying them all. But when it does come round to marking the year, we plan on copping this edition by Jack Evans made in tandem with his show at SOUP. Trendily, it’s giving #medievalcore and that’s no bad thing. Available (presumably via DM) for £550, here
Parting Shot
We were devastated to hear about the closure of JTT in NYC. I mean. So. many. freakin’. cool. shows. We couldn’t help but share our fave-X’er Borna Sammak’s views on the matter. #unbelievablypowerfulbitch