“How to Be a B*ss Bitch”
This week
🧊 awkward AI-generated laughing
🧊 crawfish building muddy, bulbous mounds
🧊 alien gimp masks
Events
Halloween is nearly upon us, so it’s time to grab your broomsticks and cauldrons because the art calendar doesn’t stop, even for spooky season! There are a lot of group shows opening this week, including Burnt Cuffs Soured Vines at Anathema, and futuresPAST at Arebyte. See you there, creeps!
💦 26 Oct | 6–9:30pm | Burnt Cuffs Soured Vines, Anathema (DEBUT SHOW), [Hoxton]
💦 26 Oct | 6pm–late | Piccalilli Fundraiser, including Zadie Xa, Lucas Dupuy and Amanda Moström, among many others, 161 Kirkdale SE26 4QJ [Sydenham]
💦 27 Oct | 6pm–late | Felt Collection 03 (Group show), Yorkton Workshops, Hackney Road [Hoxton]
💦 27 Oct | 7pm | Big Ideas - Talk by Katherine Angel, Whitechapel Gallery [Aldgate East] Tickets £5
💦 27 Oct | 6.30–8.30pm | Absence Makes the Heart, general information [Bond Street]
💦 27 Oct | 6.30pm | futuresPAST, including Lawrence Lek, Kumbirai Makumbe, Entangled Others, among others, Arebyte Gallery [Canning Town]
💦 28 Oct | | Caitlin Keogh: Running Doggerel, The Approach [Bethnal Green]
Hot links
🏴 “From the sounds of their voices, they are all American” – Day-trips, tears, too many drink and creepy typewritten notes. Just what would one get up to on an eight day river cruise, down the Danube, themed around Gillian Flynn’s well known novel Gone Girl? Imogen West-Knights has kindly done the legwork so you don’t have to.
👻 “abundant feelgood staleness” – Martin Herbert fantasises about life lived for a whole year at art fairs without going home. Or rather, not art fairs but ‘non-places… the transient, sterile, identikit spaces of supermodernity’ where everyone has ‘performatively extreme surgery’ and there is nothing but paintings that scream ‘what the hell, it’s the end, let’s just have colour and superficially pleasing composition again’... Martin needs a holiday.
✝️ “All the fantasy boyfriends wear a dangly cross earring” – Fantasy Boyfriend TikTok is where pubescent softbois with hair in their eyes ‘address the viewer directly and enact a specific scenario while playing a particular character’, horrendously often culminating in a mouthed ‘I love you’ *shudder*.
👽 “experiencing a conversation with someone who is not even on Earth anymore” – Freaky AI generated convo between Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan wherein, after some awkward AI-generated laughing, the conversation actually becomes kind of engaging and touches on faith, tech companies, drugs and Adobe creative suite?!
🍆 “It’s a portrait of her, naked, riding a comically large dildo and wearing winged sunglasses… NYT’s standards prevent it from being shown here” – It’s the time of year where T Magazine do very chic long-form profiles on creatives… Lynda Benglis reveals her splurgy slag heaps are inspired by ‘crawfish building muddy, bulbous mounds to protect themselves and their young’ and, elsewhere, a masked Demna Gvasalia speaks about everything from fleeing a civil-war torn country to his life in Zurich where everything is ‘neutral and beige’.
🧛 “the bloodless aesthetics of modern wealth” – Nothing escapes the searing analytical gaze of hysterical alt-comedians Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta on their hot podcast Celebrity Book Club. We can’t decide if their deep dive into memoir of self-proclaimed Boss B*tch, Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn is our fav ep, or if their takedown of cult epic The Bible pips it to the post…
HALLOWEEN ADD-TO-CART SPECIAL
We are BEYOND obsessed with Walter Van Beirendonck’s clothing – one of the (in our opinion) more overlooked members of the Antwerp Six. We’ll be cruising around East London this weekend in this alien gimp mask and these gorgina boots!
Patrons, if you’re listening, we’re not trick-or-treating this year but wouldn’t say no to a seasonal prezzie. Sam Mckinniss’s painting of Sarah Connor, the badass from The Terminator, would do just the trick xoxo
Mckinniss’s painting would look great with this Özgür Kar work Death with clarinet (2021) featured in Emalin’s recent solo show. Tate, if you’re listening, we’re up for curating a skeleton-themed show for Halloween 2023 - drop us a line at spittlesubmissions@gmail.com xo
If the Were-Rabbit from cult-kids-classic Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit traps you in a dark corner this weekend, what else to whack it away with than this Puppets and Puppets leather carrot bag?
It’s cuffing season, and we’re all on the lookout for a cheeky date. Luckily, JW Anderson’s newest collab gives us the goods to subtly suggest grabbing a drink… or else. Anderson’s Carrie inspired line features bloody tiaras emblazoned on the classic bumper bag, and the iconic poster plastered onto tailored trousers. One thing’s for sure, we will definitely be flaunting these at the prom.
Insta-jeweller MG jewelz puts the devil in the details (sorry) with these statement rings. Cast in silver with crystal and enamel detailing, we’ll be donning one on every finger for the rest of the month.
back next tuesday xoxo