“if it's only work, you get less likes”
This week
💦 galleries turn to luxury resorts for inspiration
💦 blazing with Louis (Theroux)
💦 yes we’re on our bookshelf bullshit
Events
Feeling very gal power this week: Atelier EB, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Gina Fischli, Georgina Hill, friend of the ‘sletter Ruby Dickson on Friday - it’s just too much to handle!!!!! x
🧊 13 Feb | 6–8pm | Tiona Nekkia McClodden: A Mercy / Dummy, Whitecube, Bermondsey [London Bridge]
🧊 14 Feb | 6-8pm | Atelier EB: Faux Sports Shop, Cromwell Place [South Kensington] | Free, tickets here
🧊 14 Feb | 6–9pm | Turps Takeover 2, Xxijrah Hii [Deptford]
🧊 15 Feb | 6–8pm | Gina Fischli: Love Love Love, Soft Opening [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 15 Feb | 6-8pm | Erwin Wurm: Surrogates, Theaddeus Ropac [Green Park]
🧊 15 Feb | 6–8pm | Georgina Hill: Bread and wine, South Parade [Farringdon]
🧊 16 Feb | 6–9pm | Ruby Dickson: Maybe my fairy-tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK., Nicoletti [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 17 Feb | 8pm-1am | Mutha Climate Fundraiser, The Glove That Fits [Homerton] £12, tickets here
🧊 16 Feb | 6–9 pm | Sam Cottington: Coffee, Torbay [Hackney]
🧊 18 Feb | 4–5pm | Perfect Magazine Issue 6 launch with Gwendoline Christie, Dover Street Market [Piccadilly]
Hot Links
💸 “How To Spend It: the name that so perfectly captures the blind march of late capitalism” – Yes we have solely used spotify’s new audiobooks feature to cry on public transport while listening to icons like Julia Fox and Marina Abramovich describe their fraught childhoods and failed marriages, haven’t you? Graduating from the memoir genre, we are now obsessed with Nathaile Olah’s new book: ‘Blind Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness’. Consumerism, class, desire, power… give it to us Nathalie!!!
📸 “You are no longer allowed next to the money people” – In her hot new 032c column, Ana Viktoria Dzinic chats to Isabelle Graw about a bunch of pics from her camera reel and, in 2024’s most shocking hot take, reveals that it may now be cool to pose in front of art…
🍁 “I got to give Louis [Theroux] a personally rolled joint” – We can’t believe we missed Amy Francombe’s totally perfect profile of Mia Khalifa when it came out in September, where they discuss her start in the porn industry, how humour deflects shame, and how she broke into fashion – with photography by Juno Calypso to boot! Also, we loooove that she stays in Whitstable whenever she’s in the UK, who knew she was a Kent Queen?
📚 “At least they live a continued, albeit rather humiliating existence” – Edwin Heathcote dissects TikTok’s ‘bookshelf wealth’ trend for the FT. Involving ‘curating’ books to match - usually Airbnb basic - interior schemes, he asks ‘has appreciation of books ever been more superficial?’ … ‘Forget bookshelf wealth, is this peak bookshelf bullshit?’ scream it Eddy
🗝️ “musicians aren't the 1%” – Alvaro Barrington sits down for a candid conversation with spittle-fave Charlotte Burns. They discuss grief, identity-led art, gentrification in New York, Prada and Vanilla Ice, crazy art school debt, and Notting Hill Carnival. We love
Add-to-cart
On the occasion of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s solo at Studio Voltaire, House of Voltaire have dropped this totally gorg and v reasonably priced print ! At £120 this is firmly at the accessible end of the art buying spectrum, but only if you get in fast - prices rise as they sell out. We’re hanging ours next to the bathroom mirror, obvs x
Parting Shot
Top notch gallery content of the week award goes to Massimo De Carlo, who posted a compilation vid of visitors crashing straight into the squeaky-clean glass gallery windows of their Paris project space Pièce Unique, in celebration of its third birthday. Girl, we have most definitely been there…. Galleries: more of this plzzzzz X
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