“Wake the Fuck Up Soup”
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This week
💦 a glut of flash bulb surrealism
💦 collective low-grade anxiety
💦 connoisseurship has been lost, proclaims gallerist
Events
The next few weeks are BUSY and we are hot with anticipation. According to Google Weather, rain is predicted on 6 out of 7 days this week: kids, we hope you have your stolen-from-gallery-openings umbrellas to hand. The one day without rain forecast? Saturday. Freddie – looks like God (Peter Davies) is watching over you x
🧊 19 Sep | 6.30–10.30pm | Gray Wielebinski: The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low, ICA [Leicester Square]
🧊 20 Sep | 5:30-7:30pm | Julia Thompson: Soft Furnishing, Incubator [Baker Street]
🧊 20 Sep | 6:30-8:30pm | Gardening on Borrowed Time, Studio West [Ladbroke Grove]
🧊 20 Sep | 6-9pm | Jack Evans: Fear of the Dark, Soup [Elephant and Castle]
🧊 20 Sep | 6-8pm | Josiane M.H. Posi: Through My Fault, Carlos Ishikawa [Stepney Green]
🧊 21 Sep | 7:30pm-12am | Lug Hole (Bleet Zine Launch), Venue MOT, £7, tickets here [South Bermondsey]
🧊 21 Sep | 6pm and 8:15pm | Rachel Jones: Hey, Maudie (Opera!!), St James’s Church [Piccadilly] Free, tickets here
🧊 22 Sep | 6-9pm | Half Truths (curated by Vanessa Murrell), Unit 2 Cassia Building [Shoreditch High Street]
🧊 22 Sep | 6-8pm | Cui Jie: Thermal Geographies, Pilar Corrias [Green Park]
🧊 23 Sep | 5–8pm (assumed) | Choon Mi Kim: ACID—FREEEE, Ginny on Frederick *New Location!!* [Barbican] 🚨🚨
🧊 23 Sep | 12-6pm | Cubitt Open Studios [Angel]
🧊 24 Sep | 3pm-Late | Burgess Park Sculpture Garden, group show including Tom Harwick-Allan, Josephine Baker, Aidan Duffy, Benjamin Slinger [Oval]
Hot links
🍬 “When the door calls for it, they are a black-op extraction team” – Gia Kuan doing it for all the publicists out there in a profile by Delia Cai for Vanity Fair on how and why ‘the New York PR girl is a vivid but relatively new archetype in recent history’. Being a bitch is out, sweeties. Gia, if you’re looking for a UK client, we’re available x
🛻 “We’re like a monster truck, and we ask you if you want a ride” – Friend of the ‘sletter Sofia Hallström interviews non other than Jamian JV and Billy Grant of O’Flaherty’s, on their infamous project space in NYC. Describing their curatorial approach they say, ‘we’re not a platform; we’re like a picky orphanage’... can’t see many other gallerists getting away with that x
💒 “Zeitgeisty moments like WWII memorials, a portrait of Churchill, a Concorde in flight” – After stumbling across the Church Kneeler Archive on insta, which documents the unique, kitsch and very British art of cross-stitched church kneelers, we have been obsessed!! Thankfully, the World of Interiors have followed up with a little history and context, for all you god-fearing nerds who want to learn more.
🐋 “Juicy Couture would be lucky to have [Jeff Koons] on their team” – Janelle Zara sums up some of the best and worst fashion-art crossovers for Frieze. Oh, what we would give to erase from our brains Loewe’s ‘egregiously yassified’ take on David Wojnarowicz’s iconic Fuck You Faggot Fucker (1984) for actor Dan Levy’s 2021 Met Gala outfit...
🧩 “Go write her a I hope this email finds you well” – artist Carla Garlaschi aka Princess Prada spins stories about her move from Europe to Chile, reflecting on sex work, academia, wanderlust and finding solace in fiction in a gorgeous read for Various Artists, enjoy x
🗝️ “No one knows how to sell art any more… they just ‘place’ it” – Jeff Poe of Blum & Poe gallery decries the current state of the art world – ‘connoisseurship has been lost,’ he reasons – while explaining his exit from his own namesake gallery in the Baer Faxt podcast. We’re not sure about LA but a new generation of connoisseurship is thriving in London xo
Add-to-cart
Guerilla art critic Gabrielle de la Puente writes the zinephlet we never knew we needed. Ostensibly a review of a twitter account that posts Chaotic Nightclub Photos de la Puente cuts to the chase, posing such questions as ‘Why do we drink??’ and ‘What does it all mean?’ in a rousing meditation on photography, surveillance, internet culture and (probably) being Brits. We don’t know for sure, but we can’t wait to find out: it’s available for pre-order now and out out in mid September with Rough Trade editions.
Parting shot
ACAB !! We’re sorry JJ, u may be a hottie but we can’t make an exception, even for you :(