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This week
💦 the micro-celebrity pizza plague
💦 “Eh. Oh yeah, maybe.”
💦 a good time in the naughties
Events
Hello little spring chickens and easter bunnies. We are gutted we’re not in Hong Kong this week, eating some char-sui bao with a cold tsingtao on the side… we suppose a lil 4 day weekend will have to do instead!! Cambridge Heath looks like it will be wild on weds eve: two of the hottest artists in London – Ana Viktoria Dzinic and Coumba Samba – open important solos, cya there 💋
🧊 26 March | 6-8pm| Gillies Adamson Semple: Volumes (vinyl release), Cedric Bardawil [Tottenham Court Road]
🧊 27 March | 6-8pm | Coumba Samba: Capital, Cell Project Space [Bethnal Green/Cambridge Heath]
🧊 27 March | 6-8pm | Audrey Gair: I Love Tomorrow, South Parade [Farringdon]
🧊 27 March | 6-9pm | Ana Viktoria Dzinic: Repetitive, Nicoletti [Bethnal Green/Cambridge Heath]
🧊 28 March | 6:30-9pm | Maria Than: Homage To Quan Âm, Arebyte [Canning Town]
🧊 28 March | 6-8pm | Ki Yoong and Leo Costello, Plop (Open Studios) [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 30 March | 5-8pm | Will o the wisp, Final Hot Desert [Holloway Road]
Exhibition of the Week
Women in Revolt, Tate Britain, until 7 April, info here.
If you haven’t seen Women in Revolt at Tate Britain yet, make a beeline for Pimlico ASAP. One of the best surveys we’ve seen at the museum for years, the exhibition brings together a plethora of activism-adjacent artworks made by women between 1970–90. Including spittle faves like Lubaina Himid and Linder, it also includes dozens of artists that will be new to most; Monica Sjöö, Rita McGurn, Shirley Verhoeven and Rose Finn-Kelcey… all received little recognition in their lifetimes. So many haunting / cheeky / angry / mystical / brave / beautiful / sexy works – we spent hours in the galleries, and left thinking about how many artists are making important work that doesn’t get its due…. Linsey Young we want part II of this show, maybe spanning 1990–2010 (!!) pretty please xxx
Hot Links
👨🏻 “What did you think of the fucking show?” – King of Criticism Dean Kissick graces the nota bene pod to discuss this year’s Whitney Biennial, covering the outrageous lack of croissants at the press preview, the perils of polite art and not bothering to read the press release !!
🍿 “Standing at the ballot box looking from pig to man and wondering which is which” – In Tank’s most recent newsletter, Nell Whittaker explores what #KateGate says about us Brits, comparing recent events to Dido in the Aeneid, fantasies of un-art, and a certain ‘widespread media literacy engendered by The Crown’...
📿 “if I think of AI, I am horrified” – Veteran gallerist Barbara Gladstone sits down with Charlotte Burns to chat everything… from Salvo’s ‘slightly kitschy landscape paintings’ to why collecting isn’t just shopping; from hiring Gavin Brown to the many secrets of her success. Who knew she opened her space aged 40?! We still have time girlies xxx
🐆 “much of the attitude was irreverent stupidity” – The Big G delivers unto us an obituary for millennial mecca Vice, a media brand once valued in the billions which officially died last month. A defining “vibe” of the 2000s and 2010, Vice gave us so much: hipster culture, ADHD journalism, the mainstreamification of obscure subcultures, mainly from Eastern Europe. Who knew one of the founders, Gavin, would go on to found the Proud Boys? RIP Vice.
🍔 “For years, Mr. Deshmukh spearheaded efforts to send pizzas to micro-celebrities” – this is a wild NYT long-read about Ashwin Deshmukh, a 38-year-old managing partner of Superiority Burger who gives Anna Delvey a true run for money. Wow.
✝️ “he wasn’t a rubber tycoon. He was a gangster” – we came across this tragic tale of a boy who mysteriously plummeted into the Thames thanks to Issy Wood, who reposted the New Yorker long-read by Patrick Radden Keefe (who penned the iconic Larry Gagosian profile) the other day. It's a sad, strange, fascinating read
Add-to-cart
We were heartbroken to read that Leeds-based artist Emma Bentley Fox’s studio was broken into last week, with over £2000 worth of equipment stolen. To help towards replacing items, she’s selling some gorge risograph prints. Ranging from £20-25, available here x
Parting Shot
We’re all here for art-as-therapy, and apparently Robbie Williams is too. His recently-opened exhibition at Amsterdam’s MoCO Museum (owned by Lionel & Kim Logchies and choc-full of Kaws, bad Basquiats and Kusamas) is titled Pride and Self Prejudice and features works based on his mental health. Depictions of the artist doing handstands are coupled with phrases such as “I was mentally ill before it was cool,” and there were reports of a ‘fear burning’ ceremony at the opening. Despite noble intentions, the work is undeniably cringe and we would like to take that (lol) opportunity to remind you all that not all hobbies have to be monetised!!!!! It’s ok to keep some things private!!!!!
We are sure you will all be very pleased to hear that MoCO is building a new London location, set to open in Summer 2024, so many more exhibitions like this to come x