“the unendingly embarrassing hellscape of contemporary journalism”
This week
💦a weeklong amphetamine fueled deepdive into the depths of cthonic digimon lore
💦 the diet that helped Karl Lagerfeld fit into Dior Haute Couture
💦 our regressive girlboss feminism era
Events
Some corkers this week and especially from all time mvp, Sadie Coles HQ. Catch us at Kingly St for the Richard Prince show on Weds, and round the corner at The Shop for Rose Easton’s takeover with works by the stellar Eva Gold on Fri. We can’t wait for the next iteration of friend of the ‘sletter Phillipa at piloto pardo’s ongoing gallery collab with Claas Reiss x
🧊 29 March | 6–10pm | Matt Antoniak: Scrapings, Piccalilli Gallery [Sydenham]
🧊 29 March | 7pm | Tom Rasmussen at ICA [Charing Cross]
🧊 29 March | 6–8pm | Richard Prince: Everyday, Sadie Coles Kingly St [Oxford Circus]
🧊 31 March | 6–8pm | Eva Gold: City of Rooms (part two), The Shop at Sadie Coles [Oxford Circus]
🧊 31 March | 6–8pm | I Want to Show You What I’ve Learned From the Worst I’ve Ever Known, Grove East [Old Street]
🧊 Opens 1 April | 10–5pm | The Gilbert and George Centre *new gallery alert* [Liverpool Street]
🧊 1 April | 6–9pm | Martina Quesada: The Borders are Fragile, piloto pardo hosted by Claas Reiss [Great Portland St/Euston]
🧊 2 April | 2–5pm | Gaming Salon and Testing Session with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Studio Voltaire [Clapham Common]
Hot Links
👀“I got an unwitting glimpse into the unendingly embarrassing hellscape of contemporary journalism” – Filthy Dreams talks us through her recent experience of virality after her piece exposing art-world-couple-gate, and how contemporary journalism ‘is mostly bullshit peddled desperately by media organizations who realize the only way to grab eyeballs is to feed outrage culture through a parasitic relationship with social media virality’ prreeeach
🧃“Ah, Tesco Baldock! The old Kayser Bondor works. I worked there in 1989” – An interesting Twitter thread exploring the strange postmodern architecture of suburban and regional supermarkets. Faves include Morrison’s shaped like a football stadium and Tesco Perivale, located in one of the UK’s best art deco buildings x
🦇“what’s the worst that can happen? You get a bad review?” – A beautiful / haunting interview with Nick Cave in the New Yorker, touching on grief, ‘laying one’s burdens down’ and his loss of appetite for the violent deaths of women in films…
🥩“we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specialises in tantuni. We were the only customers” – Vittles, our fave London food blog reacting to the ‘insular, calcified world of British newspaper restaurant writing’ gets the New Yorker profile treatment (!!)
🚫“Unfortunately, the problems start on pretty much the first page” – Tom Jeffreys goes in for the kill on 2023’s most advertised book, The Story of Art w/o Men by K*ty H*ss*l. This concise review includes the immortal lines: ‘frustratingly, the ‘corrective’ approach to art history on display here, with its hyped-up narratives of ‘rediscovery’, is underpinned by a regressive girl-boss feminism that basically just wants women to have more shows at Gagosian and sell for more money at Sotheby’s…’
🥤“The conclusion is a meandering essay on the way a dandy functions in modern society” – In this article from 2018, Rebecca Harrington explores the diet that helped Karl Lagerfeld fit into Dior Haute Couture. For a man who got through 10 diet cokes a day, and had three hundred iPods, it seems a bit weird that he thought a second slice of toast is the height of luxury.
⚰️“The smuggler complained to what he thought was a fellow reprobate that he had not been paid for his skulduggery” – London’s The Times explore how ‘Kim Kardashian unwittingly exposed a museum’s dubious morals’ in when standing next to a 2,000-year-old gold coffin of Nedjemankh at the Met Gala.
Add-to-cart
Grand dame purveyor of kitsch, Karen Kilimnik, has collabed with Acne studios on a range of garments and accessories garnished with her ironically naff paintings of feline friends. Available for £500 here.
Parting Shot
Lomex gallery founder Alexander Shulan’s twitter never fails to disappoint. spittle are keen to crowdfund the conversion of his bonkers stream of consciousness autofiction into a fitzcarraldo editions bestseller x