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This week
💦 Legendary project space TRAMPS comes to London unannounced
💦 Julia Peyton-Jones tells all
💦 All aboard Renzo Piano’s cruise!
Events, 14 - 20 September
Coming up this week, heaps of smaller galleries open shows with emerging artists, just what we need before we head into the corporate-heavy fair season. We’re especially looking forward to To Be Human, featuring work by spittle’s fave Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger, and Goldsmiths CCA’s trio of shows opening on Friday.
🧊 14 September | Kathryn Attrill: Hiding Places, online film streaming as part of Matt Flix 27: Not long but very good [online] | Streaming until 5:59pm 14 September | Free
14 September | Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NR [Regent’s Park] | Exhibition runs until 31 October | Free
🧊 16 September | Opening 6–9pm | To Be Human, group exhibition curated by Nicole Tatschl at Zona Mista, Ilderton Wharf, Rollins St, SE15 1EP [London Bridge] | Exhibition runs until 24 September | Free
🧊 16 September | Opening 6–9pm | The Exhibition, The Artists Contemporary and Hackney Downs Studios, 17 Amhurst Terrace, E8 2BT [Rectory Road] | Exhibition runs until 29 September | Free
🧊 16 September | Opening 6–9pm | HAWALA, group exhibition curated by Shezad Dawood, Paradise Row, 2 Bourdon Street, W1K 3PA [Bond Street] | Exhibition runs until 29 October | Free
🧊 17 September | Lotte Maiwald at TRAMPS, 15f Micawber Street, N1 7TB [Old Street] | Exhibition runs TBC | Free
🧊 17 September | Opening 6–9pm | Olivia Sterling: ‘Really Rough Scrubbing Brush’; Sam Keogh: ‘Sated Soldier; Sated Peasant, Sated Scribe’; and Eugenio Dittborn: ‘Airmail Paintings’, Goldsmiths CCA, St James's, SE14 6AD [New Cross] | Free
🧊 18 September | Opening 12–5pm | The Artist’s Oracle, White Crypt Project Space, 337 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4PW | Exhibition runs until 16 October | Free
Exhibition of the Week
Adam Farah at Camden Art Centre, Highgate, until 23 December. Information here.
Farah’s show was a sensitive distillation of growing up in London: ribena bottles wedged between two bus seats; empty football goals in suburban parks on overcast days; abandoned sofas lying in the street; the newest Nokias and knock-off Nike Air Max. Sometimes also known as free.yard, Farah’s personal and innately London-ish show sought to depart from the post-internet art movement, exemplified by ‘reductive and uncritical forms of irony,’ instead calling out for ‘human connection–through vulnerability, reminiscing/reflecting, spiritual criticality–something like that.’ And a touch of 2000s Mariah Carey, too.
Hot Links
🍕 ‘food is as incoherent as the library’ - Food writer Jonathan Nunn breaks down why Twitter’s 24-hour random restaurant bot, ‘Random Restaurant,’ is so appealing; whether it's observing the regional nuances of pizza (American, Kuwaiti, Bhutanese) or discovering a gem like the wonderfully named Kazakhstan restaurant: Pizzburger.
🚬 ‘Smoking kills you but it’s delicious’ - Dame Julia Peyton-Jones is profiled in The Times, and it’s a trip. From defending her decision to have a daughter aged 64, to Princess Diana ignoring Serpentine’s 1994 summer party dress code, it’s a 10/10 must-read.
🗑️ “a single plant and a bunch of fire blankets” - Working from home or living at work? In his notorious column on London’s rental market, Joel Golby rips into a landlord’s conversion of an office, into a flat: ‘This is not a small one-bed flat that has the aesthetic of an office...: this is an office that someone has simply put a bed in, and that is so, so much weirder.’
🍔 Spiritual Sips - Art-chic Americana fusion eating spot RITA’s opens a permanent space in London’s Soho. Come for the fried chicken sandwich, stay for the orange wine and Mexican mezcal. Also, Spittle is pleased to break some news. RITA’s are returning to cater this year’s Frieze! Mmmm Hmm.
💗 Present Traumatic Stress Disorder - De-Narration, Detroitus, Autophobia: Shuman Basar makes the case that ’new feelings need new words’. Discover their meaning in the Interdependence podcast ‘Emotional Capitalism, The Extreme Self and New Art Institutions’
👢 Outfit inspo - Wallpaper provides a round-up of their favourite fashion exhibitions at the Met. We wonder how this year’s exhibition will square up?
✨ “There’s not much worrisome ‘I don’t get this’” -Martin Herbert questions the origins, and integrity, of ‘ambient art,’ art which is more vibey, floaty, insta-centric aesthetics than, y’know, the serious, hard-hitting *deep* stuff we all know and love.
🔨 “Is it hard to be nice about buildings that end up being awful?” - The nation’s favourite gilet-wearer talks about the politics of land ownership and *that* £125,000 kitchen.
🚢 3 crypto bros, a cruise ship and a libertarian utopia - The Guardian explores the first, unsurprisingly disastrous attempt at ‘seasteading,’ just like homesteading, but on the sea, duh! And who knew Renzo Piano-designed cruise ships??!
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Marian Goodman launched a beautiful print by none other than Nan Goldin, for just $250! That’s right. ‘Apocalyptic Sky Over Manhattan, NYC’, from 2001 coincides with the tragic anniversary of 9/11, and all profits go to P.A.I.N., who were formed to address the overdose crisis and fight against Big Pharma. Sadly, the print sold out in two days, natch. However, at least we can gorge our eyes on Matthew Mark’s current OVR featuring some of Nan’s lesser-known earlier works.
View the print here.
Parting Shot
Ahead of Art Basel opening next week, Michèle Lamy shares a characteristically absurd interview about her collection which features work by the likes of Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey. Watch it here.
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