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This Week
💦 Xanax tablets “sourced in the Balkans”
💦 bloviating hypocrisy and booze-saturated violence
💦 the return of the spray tan
Events
We can feel the rumblings of the art world summer lull and couldn’t be more relieved. A… break !! With gallerists slipping away to Mykonos (?) or wherever they creep off to we will be rolling up our little towels and settling in for what promises to be a gorgeous London Fields / Victoria Park brat girl summer, and what with the return of the spray tan – no one ever has to know you weren’t in the Hamptons xx
🧊 3 July | 6-9pm | On Feeling, curated peter Davies, including Okiki Akinfe, Nour Jaouda, Anderson Borba, Lara Shahnavaz, Mohammed Z. Rahman, Alex Margo Arden, Gal Schindler, Kentaro Okumura, Areena Ang, Ruoru Mou, and Lowena Hearn, The Approach [Bethnal Green]
🧊 3 July | 7pm | A conversation between Noorain Inam and Wells Fray-Smith, Indigo+Madder [Holborn]
🧊 4 July | 6-8pm | Storage, group show including Alexis Kanatsios, Henrik Potter and Pol Wah Tse, among others, Final Hot Desert at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ [Oxford Circus]
🧊 4 July | 6:30-9:30pm | Lonnie Holley: All Rendered Truth, Camden Art Centre [Finchley Road & Frognal] | Free, booking essential, book here
🧊 5 July | 5-8pm | Brian Dawn Chalkley: Living on the edge of failure, Lungley [Oxford Circus]
🧊 5 July | 6-9pm | Christ Thompson: Kit Bash, Xxijrah Hi [Deptford]
🧊 5 July | 6-9pm | hiraeth, group show, Filet [Hoxton]
🧊 5 July | 7pm | Garden Nights: Lonnie Holley (Concert), Camden Art Centre [Finchley Road & Frognal] | £10-15, book here
🧊 6 July | 12-6pm | Jala Wahid: Pretend History and Theia, including Rafaela de Ascanio, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Noga Shatz and Amy Steel, Niru Ratnam [Oxford Circus]
Hot Links
“a corpulent mayor passed out from a monstrous surfeit of oysters” - An excellent long-read by Simon Schama in the FT ahead of the election, which explores their (sometimes troubling) depiction in art via Hogarth, Turner and Dickens. He concludes: ‘somewhere… there is an artist or a writer at work who will have the gumption and the talent to let us know, in their own particular way, just what this big moment in history truly betokens…’
Is “fashion photography ‘no longer regarded as a frivolous medium’”? - Rosalind Jana continues the perennial ‘can fashion be art’ debate that pops up in university seminar rooms for ArtReview. Her take? “perhaps what an artist can do, and a designer may find it trickier to achieve, is address the hypocrisies and gross disparities of the industry in which they operate…”
“you can seamlessly go from a corporate day job to doing lines at Berghain” - Normcore gets a final reckoning with in this oral history from Interview mag. From how the internet threatens our individuality to the aesthetics of the acceleration of capitalism, learn these hot takes by rote to impress your next date.
ew! gross! Yuk!? - Samutaro take a long hard look in the mirror in their latest interest-trend-summary, analysing the rising movement of fashion taking on body horror. As with anything posted on a public forum, the comments are pretty funny – scroll on for Mowalola defending her keyboard tits and teenagers freaking out about ballsacks.
Add-to-Cart
Vivienne Westwood’s wardrobe hit the block at Christie’s a few days ago and is well worth a peruse online if you missed the exhibition in London. But suppose you’re still lusting after some celeb memorabilia. In that case, Elton John is selling of more of his loud designer wares for charity after a huge auction earlier this year in the US, including Gucci loafers reading ‘Suck Me’, Donatella Versace’s own platform booties, and, of course, Elton’s own iconic two-piece Adidas tracksuits! Available here on eBay…
Parting Shot
Hyperallergic reports on an insanely disturbing lawsuit filed by a former employee of Robilant + Voena (who was previously a curator at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco) that claims among creating a culture of ‘bigotry, sexual harassment, body shaming’, the wife of one of the two eponymous dealers “recommended that [the employee] lose weight by adhering to an absurd diet that consisted of Xanax and champagne, and later mailed her “over 1,200 illegal unprescribed Xanax tablets” in addition to weight loss drugs “sourced in the Balkans” so that she could lose 25 pounds in time for The European Fine Art Fair TEFAF… WTF!
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