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Viewing Damien Hirst: Sunshine, presented by HENI

On everyone’s lips this week is the new Damien Hirst show at Claridge’s ArtSpace, the freshly opened permanent art gallery located in the hotel’s Victorian basement. Designed by John Pawson, ArtSpace is now one of the largest art galleries in Mayfair. Landing in the gallery next year are a shop and an on-site café, serving delicious Claridge’s treats.

Works on display include examples of Hirst’s colour chart series and his brilliant pipe cleaner animals. ‘They are about the fact that everyone’s an artist,’ he said. ‘They are a group of works which have never been seen together before — they are big and fun and playful and hopefully they will bring the child out in even the most grown of grown ups!’

Both cryptocurrency and Tenders from The Currency, Hirst’s first NFT collection, will be accepted as payment for the artworks on show. Get yourself down there asap.

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Dates
13 October 2021
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Viewing: Pop Goes The Arts Club: The World of Peter Blake

British legend, Sir Peter Blake is subject of a solo show at The Arts Club on Dover Street where he sits as president. The exhibition embraces Blake’s joyful, multi layered pop cultural works, meticulously rendered watercolour portraits alongside intricate collages assembled from found objects that cast many a sharp allusion on the history of art. Blake, who is now in his 80s, has a long and illustrious career that is intertwined with the evolution of the British art world and the impact of pop culture. The Royal College of Art graduate first came into the limelight with the ground-breaking Young Contemporaries show at the ICA in 1961 where he exhibited alongside Hockney and R.B. Kitaj.

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Viewing Social Works II

At Gagosian London explore Social Works II curated by Antwaun Sargent highlighting artists from the African diaspora and their insights into the relationship between space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic—and social and artistic practice. The innovative show highlights how geography helps shape personal and social identity. Sumayya Vally, principal of the Johannesburg/London-based studio Counterspace and architect of the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion, has created a wall fragment that will transform itself over time. Architect and artist David Adjaye presents a group of sculptural forms made using a rammed earth technique inherited from West African architectural vernacular. The mixed media show also features a poignant series of oils and watercolours What black is this you say? (2020–21) by Amanda Williams produced as a bold response to the recent tumultuous racial events in the United States. Tyler Mitchell’s photographs meditate on home and leisure offer up a new vision of the American pastoral idyll.

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Dates
07 October 2021 — 18 December 2021
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