“glamorous disassociation”
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This week
💦 the social Siberia of seated dinners
💦 which bankrupt gallerist might soon be back on the scene
💦 heartbreak, champagne and sushi
Events
Short but sweet roster of events this week. In brief – they’re all bangers!! You can guarantee if Philippa Snow is on the line-up, we’ll be there, so we’re buzzing for the launch of her isolarii title at Rose Easton on Tuesday. Other highlights include the Radar curated by Izzy Bilkus, Nicole Wermers at Herald St, and Sonya Derviz’s second exhib with Sherbert Green. Gorge!!
🧊 20 May | 6-9pm | Philippa Snow: Snow Business (book launch), Rose Easton [Bethnal Green]
🧊 21 May | 6-8pm | Nicole Wermers: Tails & Fainters, Herald St [Tottenham Court Road/Holborn]
🧊 21 May | 6-9pm | The Radar, curated by Izzy Bilkus, including Nana Wolke, Bertie Garnett and Katie Shannon, among others, Plaster Magazine HQ [Tottenham Court Road]
🧊 22 May | 6-8pm | Something where there should be nothing, including P. Staff, Sin Wai Kin and SoiL Thornton, among others Soft Opening [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 24 May | 6-9pm | Sebastian Jefford: Passengers, Worse [location on request]
🧊 24 May | 2-6pm | Sonya Derviz: Near and Far, Sherbert Green [Park Royal]
🧊 25 May | From 4.30pm | Rivet presents 'Poetry Jamboree' with Rosie Stockton, Rashed Aqrabawi, Casper Kelly, Caitlin Hall, James Goodwin and Nadia Jones [Haringey]. Tix here
🧊 25 May | From 3pm | Performances by Charlie Osborne and Daria Blum, Myatt’s Field Bandstand [Camberwell]
Hot links
📚 “It is hard for me to understand how someone could wildly fail to read the fucking room” - Gladstone director, podcaster and spittle-fave Alissa Bennett reviews former Gagosian director Sarah Hoover’s book about motherhood, and, er, is not impressed…
🧠 “You want meaning? Do your own thinking.” - For the first time in almost three years grand dame of documenting the scene Linda Yablonsky is back at it with her Artforum diaries, this time focusing on Frieze New York, 2025, via Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, Paula Cooper, and Jerry Saltz…
🕴️ “from septum-pierced college students to cigar-puffing art collectors” - journalists publicly declaring the end of art criticism are almost as common as jehovahs witnesses declaring the end of the world, but, argues Hakim Bishara, this claim that we’re standing at the end of critique is resoundingly false. While new tech and new platforms have drastically changed the landscape, the drive to appraise art persists, if you know where to look.
💫 “I’m not an actor and I’ll never be one.” - Artist and Director Amalia Ulman returns to the screen with none other than Chloe Sevigny – exploring influencer culture and the insidious power of global conglomerates. We can’t wait to watch!!
👀 “I’d like to see you, but I don’t want to rock the boat.” - as the world gears up for season two of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal, sink your teeth into Louis Theroux’s enamoured interaction with Fielder for Interview mag. Two incredibly awkward awkward men, united at last <3
🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢 - A sumptuous clip from Marinna Simnett’s new work Leda was a swan has just dropped on ArtForum. The work reimagines Leda as the swan itself, forming a slippery, sensual and eerie work which addresses AI slippage as an aesthetic category.
Add-to-cart
Touramline’s definitive biography of revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson (with the most fab cover?!?!?) looks like a must-read, out today at Blackwell’s for £16.28
Parting Shot
Two years after filing for bankruptcy – and, according to reports, owing 153 creditors, including France-Lise McGurn, Jim Shaw and Mai-Thu Perret, a total around £10 million… – Simon Lee’s website indicates his next chapter may be on the horizon…
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