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This Week
💦 London
💦 Gallery
💦 Weekend
Events
London Gallery Weekend and Basel within two weeks of each other? Okay divas! *googles symptoms of burnout*
🧊 3 Jun | 6-8pm | Tau Lewis: The Ways of the Underworld Are Perfect, Sadie Coles HQ [St James]
🧊 3 Jun | 6-11pm | Lap Dance (curated by Lydia Eliza Trail), Kupfer [Hackney Wick]
🧊 4 Jun | 6-10pm | Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good, and Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung, Goldsmiths CCA [New Cross]
🧊 5 Jun | 6-9pm | Katie Shannon: DEVOCORPOSTO, Neven [Bethnal Green]
🧊 5 Jun | 7pm | Nora Turato: pool7 Live Performance, ICA [Charing Cross]
🧊 6 Jun | 3pm | Nicole Wermers in conversation with Linsey Young, St George's Church, 6–7 Little Russell St [Bloomsbury] | RSVP rsvp@heraldst.com
🧊 6 Jun | 6-8pm | Boxes, A. Squire [Bloomsbury]
🧊 6 Jun | 6-9pm | The Toe Rag Summer 2025 Artefacts issue launch, Plaster Store [Tottenham Court Road]
🧊 8 Jun | 3pm | Michael Dean: Shaking a spear at William. Part 1 (performance), Herald St [Bethnal Green] | RSVP rsvp@heraldst.com
Hot links
🐩 “underbite, topknot and distinctly arrogant carriage” – Rosa Lyster delves into the absurd, camp, fanatic world of professional dog shows with a visit to Crufts. Wondering what it is that keeps these owners and their bitches coming back, year after year, for what is relatively meagre prize money, she unveils deeply human motivations for their hobby.
💪🏻 “He had his bros and his hoes” – For interview mag, Al Freeman interviews writer Dan Nadel, to coincide with the release of his biography of R Crumb, celebrated cartoonist and loveable pervert ;) It’s a whistle stop tour through comic history and the sexual revolution, with some fervent debate over whether or not he was an incel, thrown in for good measure - buckle up
💎 Gem Stone Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste“Social media is a great business tool for my family” – 9 years after Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room, her assailants finally face trial and the Kween of Kardashian theory MJ Corey was there to analyse it all.
📐“OMA pulled off a rare feat — they made a wonky show feel sexy” – BUTT magazine’s Andrew Pasquier tackles what on initial glance looked like quite a nerdy show about graphs at Fondazione Prada in Venice, in a very fab way for PIN UP… x
🪽 “We never intend any copyright infringement” - we just discovered Jarrett Earnest’s podcast ANGELIC TRANSMISSIONS which is keeping us going on these sweaty commutes, recent eps have included spittle-faves like Lynne Tillman, Sam McKinniss and Natasha Stagg. Enjoy chicas!
Add-to-cart
We have banged on about Julien*s auction house before. They shift dead celebrities’ personal items – creepy AF, but what’s not to love? Up next: hundreds of items from David Lynch’s house, including coffee machines, ashtrays, art books, fab Bang & Olufsen ipod docks, and scripts from his iconic films. Love!
Parting Shot
Alongside programming Mark Leckey and Arthur Jafa at the Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon, running Gladstone gallery in New York, and having his NYC apartment photographed in T Mag, iconic dealer Gavin Brown (closely linked to the careers of artists like Joan Jonas, Urs Fischer, and Alex Katz) has been planning a show of his own work in Italy, too! (it appears…) who knew such a busy man had time to crack out the odd single-sheet woodcut, j’adore!
xoxo