EDITOR’S LETTER
Welcome to The Wick
Dear Culturally Curious,
Salute! The Bayeux Tapestry is in town so whilst you wait to view at the British Museum head to the NPG to see the recently unveiled portrait of Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum. The optically flickery Nick at Home (London), 2025, commissioned to mark Cullinan’s 2015-2024 tenure as NPG director, was donated by the artist and is now on permanent display in Room 30 – the first Peyton painting to enter the collection. The duo grew close whilst working on Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels held at the NPG in 2019.
Meanwhile just before the August escape, Jessica Morgan has been named the next Director of Tate. The Dia Art Foundation director, and a former Tate Modern curator, becomes Tate’s tenth director, taking up the role on 1 January 2027 and succeeding Maria Balshaw. At Dia, Morgan pioneered Land art projects, site-specific commissions, and programming across its constellation of twelve sites. A onetime Groucho club receptionist (second home to the YBAs) Morgan holds degrees in art history from Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating in the early 1990s. Welcome back to London.
For those in town there are a plethora of activities celebrating South Asian heritage month ,’Unity in Diversity’ is the theme. Read more here https://southasianheritage.org.uk/ and please highlight those in your network! I am personally thrilled as a British Sri Lankan to see a vast array of Asian talent on show – congratulations to Bharti Kher who this week unveiled her work ‘Hybrid Forms’ at the V&A.
As July’s pace softens into August and Burnham settles his cabinet, it’s time to smell the wildflowers – or take a city London meander to the fairytale world of Richard Dadd at the Royal Academy. Are you heading to the mountains or the sea?
Happy Weekend wherever you are,
Katy & The Wick KTW family
Salute! The Bayeux Tapestry is in town so whilst you wait to view at the British Museum head to the NPG to see the recently unveiled portrait of Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum. The optically flickery Nick at Home (London), 2025, commissioned to mark Cullinan’s 2015-2024 tenure as NPG director, was donated by the artist and is now on permanent display in Room 30 – the first Peyton painting to enter the collection. The duo grew close whilst working on Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels held at the NPG in 2019.
Meanwhile just before the August escape, Jessica Morgan has been named the next Director of Tate. The Dia Art Foundation director, and a former Tate Modern curator, becomes Tate’s tenth director, taking up the role on 1 January 2027 and succeeding Maria Balshaw. At Dia, Morgan pioneered Land art projects, site-specific commissions, and programming across its constellation of twelve sites. A onetime Groucho club receptionist (second home to the YBAs) Morgan holds degrees in art history from Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating in the early 1990s. Welcome back to London.
For those in town there are a plethora of activities celebrating South Asian heritage month ,’Unity in Diversity’ is the theme. Read more here https://southasianheritage.org.uk/ and please highlight those in your network! I am personally thrilled as a British Sri Lankan to see a vast array of Asian talent on show – congratulations to Bharti Kher who this week unveiled her work ‘Hybrid Forms’ at the V&A.
As July’s pace softens into August and Burnham settles his cabinet, it’s time to smell the wildflowers – or take a city London meander to the fairytale world of Richard Dadd at the Royal Academy. Are you heading to the mountains or the sea?
Happy Weekend wherever you are,
Katy & The Wick KTW family
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