“Inside big tree is baby tree”
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This week
💦 Bird poop Serpas
💦 those who fall along the way are losers
💦 FROM HALCYON DAYS TO GALLERY RAIDS
Events
To be completely honest, we are CLEARING OUR CALENDARS this weekend for the Dover Street Market Market, back after a year’s hiatus. Catch us sifting through the rails from dusk til dawn 💋
🧊 30 April | 6-9pm | Tulani Hlalo: Silly Bitch, SOUP [Elephant & Castle]
🧊 30 April | 6-8pm | Michael Dean: Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder), Herald St [Bethnal Green]
🧊 30 April | 6-8pm | Judith Dean, South Parade [Paddington]
🧊 30 April | 5-8pm | Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan: Ellipsis, Ames Yavuz, *new gallery alert* 31-33 Grosvenor Hill [Marble Arch]
🧊 1 May | 6-8pm | Many Ghosts, Many Shells, Seventeen [Haggerston]
🧊 1 May | 6-8pm | CAConrad, Champ Lacombe [Euston]
🧊 1 May | 6-9pm | Handful of Dust: Bo Kim, Carolina Aguirre, Divine Southgate-Smith, Emii Alrai, Li Li Ren, Pia Ortuno, Richard Burton, Unyimeabasi Udoh, Palmer Gallery [Edgware Road]
🧊 1 May | From 7pm | Lesbian Art Circle: London Volume IV, Ridley Road Social Club [Dalston Kingsland]
🧊 2 May | 6-8pm | Arthur Pourjous: Un Captif Amoureux, ZERUI.G [Blackfriars]
🧊 From 2 May | DOVER STREET MARKET MARKET [180 Strand]
Hot links
🚀 “You can’t stop the Meme culture 😘” – Outside of Boca Chica Village, the seaside housing complex which lies close to a SapceX site in Texas, lies a 12 foot bust of Elon Musk, apparently inspired by a meme, which was vandalised by stabbing a few weeks ago. Hyperallergic’s reporting on both the incident, and all the cute little parades which have been thrown for Elon in the town, serves to highlight just how cucky some of his followers truly are.
✝ “Woke pope” who “hoped that hell was empty” – You thought we took a week off last week because we’d been enjoying the long weekend to much? False! We were in fact paying our respects to the recently departed pope francis, who gets a character assassination by James Butler in the LRB, I guess we’ll never really know whether frankie was as woke as JD Vance would like us to believe :(.
🌰 “[The Whitney] rejected two pieces of metal sheathing that Serpas had intended to use in its biennial alongside a note: ‘Bird poop Serpas.’” – Ser Serpas goes litter picking NYC for The New Yorker, inclusive of termites and radiation, to deliver facts we needed to know like: ‘Tbilisi has the best trash because everything is passed down for so long.’ gorge tip!
🎧 “Blaise Bellville, founder of dance music livestreamers Boiler Room is English gentry: the Marlborough College-educated son of Lady Lucinda Wallop” – spittle fave Phin Jennings dips his toe into investigative music writing for the Guardian to expose how London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. Stunning! This must be the first time ‘billionaire’ and ‘venue MOT’ have been used in the same sentence?
🎒 “This appears to be a fool’s game to which I do not wish to participate, or a power game which I do not want to fight” – in case you missed it… one of the coolest galleries in Paris, Air de Paris, withdrew from Art Basel this year via an open letter in Provence mag, publicly questioning the values of the world’s most prestigious and influential art fair…
🏚️ “the current dire state of the publishing industry continues to favour the selling power of celebrity over specialist writers and thinkers” – In ArtReview, Rosanna McLaughlin gave us giggles with this takedown of the bullshit supposed culture writers like Alain de Botton, Rick Rubin, and Brian Eno come out with like “Inside big tree is baby tree. Inside you is little you. It’s always there” and “The less functional a thing is – the less it has to do something in particular – the more space for art there is in it”. A hilar read xx
🚰 “Rin kept the party going in memoriam” – If you, like us, have missed reading short fiction released in regular instalments in a newspaper or magazine, or, if you, like us, have romanticised the idea of reading short fiction released in regular instalments in a newspaper or magazine – as a signifier of a simple, more intellectual time, where everyone wore beautiful hats, listened to the radio, and had attention spans longer than an instagram caption – then you’ll be pleased to hear that Larry Gagosian has your back. In the most recent issue of Gagosian Quarterly, author Catherine Lacey has released the first titillating new serialised story – we’re on tenterhooks!
Add-to-cart
Soliloquy, a new place online to find art, prints and fab things by London artists, has just launched with stunning pieces by the likes of Mark Leckey (pictured), Prem Sahib, Ajamu and this peachy Celia Hempton (also pictured) x £125 here
Parting Shot
As you know darlings, our inbox is always open for tip offs – and boy did we receive a scorcher… honestly, we can’t quite believe neurotic gallerinas are resorting to Arab Sheik impersonation in this dayandage. From what we hear this is just scratching the surface in a story pitted with blackmail, stalking, vanity projects and empty hype… just another day in the office!
