EDITOR’S LETTER

Welcome to The Wick

— Katy Wickremesinghe
Hi All,

London will be at full throttle with Frieze, PAD London & 154 opening next week and kicking off with Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art Party on Saturday with a screening of Marina Abramovic’s work Performance for the Oceans.

At 1-54 Contemporary, we will be looking out for Prince Gyasi at MAAT Gallery, Zanele Muholi at Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, and Theresa Webber at October Gallery. Take a read of our Monday Muse interview with Touria el Glaoui, the fair’s founding director.

At Frieze London, download the app and start mapping its new floorplan designed by A Studio Between which gives bigger, brighter space to the Artist-to-Artist section of six emerging talents nominated by established artists and to this year’s themed zone, Smoke. Curated by Pablo José Ramírez (Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles) it focuses on ceramic works that explore diasporic and indigenous histories. We will be making a beeline for Dawn Ng at Kate MacGarry, Lawrence Lek (Winner of the 2024 Artist Award at Frieze London) at Sadie Coles, and Carol Bove’s abstract sculptures at Gagosian. Don your Rains coat, The Row zipper boots and sunglasses – going a little incognito can be useful.

Opening 8 October, PAD London in Berkeley Square brings together leading designers and galleries including Rose Uniacke with her focus on Swedish furniture and Bryan O’Sullivan who is responsible for Claridge’s sumptuous interiors. This is where deco renovation dreams are born.

With best wishes from me and the KTW Family,
Katy
The Wick Culture - Unisex KAWS + Warhol UT Graphic T-Shirt - Uniqlo

Objects of Desire

KAWS + Warhol Graphic T-shirt by Uniqlo

The Wick Culture - Portrait of consultant, coach, speaker, and writer Africa Broke
Monday Muse

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The Wick Culture - John Hui portrait
© Joe Rigby, courtesy of the Sarabande Foundation
Spotlight

Spotlight artist John Hui

The Wick Culture - Fatoş Üstek, curator of Frieze Scupture, and Katy Wickremesinghe, founder of The Wick.
Video Interviews

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Visual Arts
The Wick Culture - David Bailey, Mary McCartney and Brandei Estes at Claridge's ArtSpace

Happenings ‘DOUBLE EXPOSURE: David Bailey & Mary McCartney’ at Claridge’s ArtSpace

Happenings
The Wick Culture - Portrait of Yayoi Kusama
Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki
Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

Viewing Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE at Victoria Miro

Yayoi Kusama’s latest hallucinatory spectacle is an unmissable, dazzling all new Infinity Mirrored Room, pulsating and filled with light.

The Wick Culture - Gold Shoulder Clasp ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Viewing Silk Roads at The British Museum

This exhibition at The British Museum tries to get past the stereotypical and exoticised view of the Silk Roads and get a bigger picture of the impact of these overlapping networks of global trade routes that linked communities all over Asia, African and Europe.

The Wick Culture - C. K. Rajan, Mild Terrors-II, 1991–96 
Courtesy the artist and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi

Viewing The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975 – 1998 at Barbican Art Gallery

A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.

Visual Arts

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