Welcome to The Art List issue no 5!
There are lots of talks and performances coming up, in addition to the usual openings, so plenty of opportunities to attend a fun art event with a friend or two!
I hope you enjoy these recommendations. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. (Also, as you’ll note this issue is coming out on a Wednesday, but we’ll be back to our regular every-other-Sunday release date with the next issue!).
Happy art-going!
X,
Amanda
Openings & Events
Organised by date, Rsvp & ticket requirements indicated where necessary
This week:
Opening of Stacey Gillian Abe & Stephen Wong solo shows at Unit London in Mayfair, Wednesday 23 November, 6-9pm (rsvp required)
Talk: Artist Chantal Joffe and Professor Dorothy Price in Conversation discussing the pioneering women artists on view in the Making Modernism exhibition at the Royal Academy in Mayfair/Piccadilly, Wednesday 23 November, 6.30pm (ticket required, £15)
Talk: Artist Grayson Perry in Conversation with Curator Caroline Douglas discussing the idea of kitsch in ceramics and contemporary art at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, Wednesday 23 November, 7pm (ticket required, £7)
Performance: Its contours, Its movements exploring notions of disruption and unfixity at APT Gallery in Deptford, Wednesday 23 November, 5pm and 7pm
Private view of Unarchived, featuring artist residents Shumaiya Khan and Lisa Lutgen, at Soho House Redchurch Street Studios, Wednesday 23 November, 6-9pm (dm them to book)
Late night opening with curator talk, drinks, and music at Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm, Thursday 24 November, 6-9pm (rsvp required)
Opening of Hannah Lim: The Tiger’s Eye at Huxley Parlour (Maddox St location), Thursday 24 November, 6-8pm (rsvp required)
Performance: SERAFINE1369 exploring embodied relations and circular notions of time at APT Gallery in Deptford, Thursday 24 November, 6.30pm (ticket required, £5)
Talk: Artists Hannah Catherine Jones and Rebekah Ubuntu in Conversation discussing queer methodologies of healing at Mimosa House in Bloomsbury, Thursday 24 November, 6.30-8pm (rsvp required or message me for a spot)
Opening of Kate Newby: So close, come on at The Sunday Painter in Vauxhall, Thursday 24 November, 6.30-9pm
Tate Modern Lates with extended exhibition hours, drinks & food, talks & more, Friday 25 November
Talk: Out of the Kiln, From Concept to Technique with artists Aaron Angell and Serena Korda at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, Saturday 26 November, 2pm (ticket required, £5)
Opening of London Paint Club pop-up show SELECTS: VOL. 2 at Koppel Project Space (Piccadilly location on 48 Regent Street), Saturday 26 November, 5-9pm (rsvp required)
Launch party for issue 3 of Pilot Magazine, an independent mag dedicated to all things creative, at The Hanway Cocktail Bar in Soho, Saturday, 26 November, 8pm-2am (ticket required, £10)
Next week:
Opening of Ebun Sodipo: I Found Venus and She Was Transsexual at Goldsmiths CCA, Tuesday 29 November, 6-9pm
Concert: The Philharmonia Orchestra plays string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven in response to Old Masters at Cromwell Place in South Kensington, 7.15pm (ticket required, £20, includes a glass of prosecco)
The Uncollected: An evening of poetry in response to Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at the Barbican, Wednesday 30 November, 6.30pm (ticket required, £10)
Opening of Even the Worm Will Turn, featuring Nettle Grellier and Georg Wilson, at Soho Revue in Soho, Thursday 1 December, 6-8pm
Film screening: Rolling in the Deep: Mer-Creatures and Mythology in Global Cinema curated by Charlie Clark at the Barbican, Thursday 1 December, 6.20pm (ticket required, £12)
Opening of Leah Clements: INSOMNIA at South Kiosk in Peckham, Thursday 1 December, 6.30-8pm
Opening of Send Nudes curated by Goldsmiths MFA Curating students at Trio in Deptford, Friday 2 December, 6-9pm
Exhibitions
This is a running list, so you’ll always have a complete, up-to-date exhibitions list in each newsletter!
Gallery Shows
Mayfair
Radhika Khimji, Lee Miller: Portraits in Space at Sapling Gallery, through 17 December
Stop for a little cake & coffee afterwards at Marchesi 1824, a delightful pastry shop & cafe on Mount Street
Ferrari Sheppard: Tremendous at Massimo de Carlo, through 20 December
Haley Josephs: Every Part of the Dream at Almine Rech, through 22 December
Adrian Ghenie: The Fear of NOW at Thaddaeus Ropac, through 22 December
Marcel Dzama: Child of Midnight at David Zwirner, through 22 December
Amy Sherald: The World We Make at Hauser & Wirth, through 23 December
Anne Imhof: Avatar II at Sprueth Magers, through 23 December
Grace Weaver: Trash-Scapes at Galerie Max Hetzler, through 7 January
Hannah Lim: The Tiger’s Eye at Huxley Parlour (Maddox St location), through 21 January
Stacey Gillian Abe: Shrub-let of Old Ayivu at Unit London, through 27 January
Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, through 28 January
A wonderful historical group show that I wouldn’t miss if you are a fan of portrait painting!
Soho
A Flash of Blue, a duo show of new work by Hannah Tilson and Beatrice Lettice Boyle, at Cedric Bardawil, through 26 November
Dialogue, a group show of three London-based women artists working with portraiture, at The Artist Room, through 17 December
Even the Worm Will Turn, a duo show of Nettle Grellier and Georg Wilson, at Soho Revue, 1 - 30 December
St. James’s
Cecily Brown: Studio Pictures at Thomas Dane Gallery, through 17 December
Bloomsbury
Hannah Catherine Jones: OWED TO CHIRON (The Wounded Healer) at Mimosa House, through 23 December
Clerkenwell
From Aphrodite to Mars curated by Nina de Maria at David Benjamin Gallery, through 15 December
North West London
Bex Massey: the truth is out there at Roman Road, Notting Hill, through 26 November
South Kensington
Embodiment, a duo show of Leo Park and Anton Alvarez, presented by Bernston Bhattacharjee at Cromwell Place, through 27 November
East London
Unarchived, featuring artist residents Shumaiya Khan and Lisa Lutgen, at Soho House Redchurch Street Studios, through 25 November
Buffer, showing the work of recent graduates from UK art universities, at Guts Gallery, Hackney, through 8 December
Pair with coffee & lunch at nearby Pophams Bakery (also a good spot to sit and read or work)
Nana Wolke: Wanda’s at Nicoletti Contemporary, Bethnal Green, through 28 January
Southwark
Oracles and Algorithms, a duo show featuring Rebeca Romero and Maria Joranko, at Copperfield Gallery, through 28 January
Close to the Tate if you want to hit two art visits in one! Break it up with lunch or a coffee at Caravan’s Bankside location, conveniently located between the two.
Museum Shows
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery (ticket required, £15)
Rebeca Parkins at Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm/Primrose Hill
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine Gallery
Go on a sunny Saturday so you can stroll through Hyde Park after
Two wonderful shows at the Royal Academy: William Kentridge (ticket required, £20) and Making Modernism, (ticket required, £15)
A visit to the RA is best paired with a takeaway cappuccino from Ralph’s or a delicious pasta dish from Cecconi’s, both located not even a minute from the museum
Several recommended shows at the Tate Modern: Cecilia Vicuña’s Turbine Hall commission, The EY Exhibition: Cezanne (book ticket, £22), and Maria Bartuszová (book ticket, £16)
For a sweet post-exhibition treat head to Bread Ahead at nearby Borough Market for one of their delectable doughnuts
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square (book ticket, £26)
Pair with a stroll through Covent Garden, where you can stop for a matcha latte at 26 Grains in Neal’s Yard
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House (ticket required, £13)
Get coffee afterwards at WatchHouse across the courtyard. (Also a great spot to sit and work for a bit!)
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today at the Design Museum, Kensington, (ticket required, £17)
Leighton House museum reopened last month after renovations (ticket required, £11)
The Design Museum & Leighton House are right next to each other, so pair those visits together then grab a coffee (there is a Gail’s right there) and go for a stroll in Holland Park
Dani and Sheila ReStack: Cuts in the Day at Camden Arts Centre (book ticket, free)