EDITOR’S LETTER
Welcome to The Wick
Dear All,
New York is thrumming with action with the fashion and entertainment worlds entering a flurry of action ahead of Monday’s Met Gala that takes the evocative theme ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’. Curator Andrew Bolton has surfaced 250 hidden gems from the vast collection with designs that embrace the ephemerality of fashion and the cycle of rebirth and renewal. The hosts are Anna Wintour, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and the actress of the moment, Zendaya.
The Young V&A and The National Portrait Gallery are the two London museums to make the shortlist for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 which will be announced in July. Meanwhile, book your tickets for Photo London at Somerset House where Master of Photography for 2024, artist Valérie Belin, presents an exhibition titled Silent Stories.
Rain or shine, wishing you a wonderful bank holiday weekend ahead.
All my best,
Katy
New York is thrumming with action with the fashion and entertainment worlds entering a flurry of action ahead of Monday’s Met Gala that takes the evocative theme ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’. Curator Andrew Bolton has surfaced 250 hidden gems from the vast collection with designs that embrace the ephemerality of fashion and the cycle of rebirth and renewal. The hosts are Anna Wintour, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and the actress of the moment, Zendaya.
The Young V&A and The National Portrait Gallery are the two London museums to make the shortlist for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 which will be announced in July. Meanwhile, book your tickets for Photo London at Somerset House where Master of Photography for 2024, artist Valérie Belin, presents an exhibition titled Silent Stories.
Rain or shine, wishing you a wonderful bank holiday weekend ahead.
All my best,
Katy
Objects of Desire
Kabul Sunset Bouquet, Louis Barthélemy for ISHKAR
Monday Muse
Interview Academic and Novelist Prof Lesley Lokko OBE
Spotlight
Spotlight artist Alma Berrow
Video Interviews
Interview The Wick x Digital Artist Krista Kim | Continuum
Visual Arts
Happenings National Portrait Gallery 2024 Gala
Happenings
Viewing Yan Wang Preston rewrites art history and contests power in dazzling, giant photographs
The Chinese-British photographer Yan Wang Preston presents a new body of work that has been three years in the making for her second solo exhibition at Messums on Cork Street.
Viewing Compassion and care are explored in Joseph Jones’s oil paintings of cats and flowers
Based on Jones’s personal archive of found images, drawings and photographs, the artist hopes this new body of paintings might subtly evoke feelings of domestic care and nurture.
Viewing A fascinating insight into the dynamic end of Michelangelo’s illustrious career
The final three decades of Michelangelo’s work are the focus of this electrifying new exhibition at the British Museum, a period when he produced prolifically,
