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Viewing ‘Handcrafted by the World’ at SoShiro London

The SoShiro Space is a five-storey townhouse in the heart of London’s Marylebone. The venue houses SoShiro Collections, as well as a lively mix of guest exhibitions, shows and private events. This week and running to 20 December, SoShiro is holding Handcrafted by the World, a pop-up festive gift market bringing together craftspeople from around the world.

Visitors will find the most beautiful handmade gifts all priced under £500 – sourced by SoShiro’s founder, Shiro Muchiri, from artisans in Jordan, Kuwait, Colombia, and beyond. The specially curated collection includes everything from textile wall hangings to ceramic pieces, jewellery and one-off items for the home, such as Studio Saffar’s metal candleholders and Alex Roby’s stoneware.

This unique shopping experience away from the crush of the Christmas crowds is a ticketed event. Tickets are priced at £12 – spots are limited so book ahead to avoid disappointment. 50% of the ticket price goes to support young people with learning disabilities.

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Dates
21 November 2024 — 20 December 2024

Viewing Art Basel Miami 2024

Next week is the art world’s last hurrah of the calendar year – Art Basel Miami. The coastal city plays host to an array of spin-offs and satellites at private venues and public institutions, and then of course there’s the main fair.

On our must-see list is the fair’s Meridians sector at the fair, the platform for large-scale projects, curated this year by Yasmil Raymond. This year’s line-up includes conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas’s Interference #18—a monumental, fourteen-feet wide multipanel hologram from the artist’s ongoing Interference series—presented by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Meyohas layers magnified imagery of plant matter with images of a nude female form.

We’ll also be heading to Nova, the place to see new works created in the last three years or less. This always proves to be a highlight of Art Basel, and this year we don’t want to miss Deborah Willis, presented by Welancora Gallery. Across town, the Bass Museum’s ‘Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum’, is an innovative visitor experience and a celebration of the city, and at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, you can see works by Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson and Isamu Noguchi, among others, in Historic Works from the Margulies Collection 1930’s-1970’s. Round out the weekend with a visit to the Perez Museum for a groundbreaking exhibition surveying six decades of Xicanx-identifying artists.

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Dates
04 December 2024 — 08 December 2024
London gets a real treat with this breathtaking, uplifting, seriously good touring exhibition of works drawn from the Wedge Collection. Based on the Aperture publication of the same title, and brilliantly curated by Elliot Ramsey, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic brings together portraiture of Black subjects authored by Black subjects from the mid 20th century to today.

Major draws include a chance to see vintage prints by the likes of West African masters Malick Sidibé, Sory Sanlé, Seydou Këita, through to Jamal Shabazz, an early work by Carrie Mae Weems, and a rare black and white documentary portrait by Aïda Muluneh. There are also portraits by more recent superstars in the photo world, such as Kennedi Carter, the youngest photographer to ever shoot a Vogue cover, (aged 21 in 2020).

You might come for the famous names – but you’ll stay for the less celebrated: the Wedge Collection’s Dr Kenneth Montague has a sensibility and sensitivity for histories untold across the Black Atlantic, introducing Canadian artists like Tayo Yannick Anton, and Jamaican artists such as Ruddy Roye, whose bold visions of his homeland are revealed through striking portraits of Jamaicans taken on the beaches of Montego Bay.

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Dates
05 November 2024 — 20 January 2025
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