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Listening Artlogic’s Connect 24

The Wick Culture - New Art World: Building Community and Narratives in a Digital Age

Above New Art World: Building Community and Narratives in a Digital Age

Artlogic Conference Connect 24

Online
19th – 21st November, 2024

Connect 24 is Artlogic’s online conference bringing together those who create, sell and buy art through conversations and panels exploring everything from shifts in the market to the dynamics between artists and galleries. Informative and educational, Connect 24 is a unique opportunity to think about the art market and how it will be impacted by wider changes in the world.

Artlogic expects more than 10,000 of its community to attend the conference, including leading collectors, galleries, advisors, curators from around the world – as well as artists working in every medium. Our very own founder Katy Wickremesinghe is also part of the stellar line-up alongside the likes of Jasmin Tsou, Lisson Gallery’s New York Director, Gazelli Art House founder Mila Askarova, as well as Paul Smith Foundation director Martha Mosse and curator Jenn Ellis, to name a few.

Katy Wickremesinghe will moderate a panel titled Brave New Art World: Building Community and Narratives in a Digital Age, alongside Curator & Author Ekow Eshun, CEO of The Art Newspaper Nick Sargent, and Curator & Founder of @Carriescottcurates Carrie Scott.

Among the exciting discussions to sign up for is a panel discussion on the challenges facing the art market in 2025, in the wake of the US elections, and how to approach the sustainability in a globalised art scene. Also hot topics to be dissected are how to build better relationships between galleries and museums, and how collectors today are navigating the market on their own terms.

See the full programme and register here.

Viewing MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor at Royal Ballet & Opera

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The Wick Culture - Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, The Royal Ballet ©2024 RBO. Ph Andrej Uspenski

The Wick Culture - Giacomo Rovero (Adam) and Lukas B. Brændsrød (Zeb) in Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM ©2024 RBO. Ph Andrej Uspenski

The Wick Culture - Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, The Royal Ballet ©2024 RBO. Ph Andrej Uspenski (2)

Above MADDADDAM

MADDADDAM

The Royal Opera House
14 – 30 November 2024

The last few tickets are remaining for the two week run of Wayne McGregor’s visionary new ballet based on Margaret Atwood’s epic speculative fiction of the same title. The two hour performance is divided into three acts and sees many of McGregor’s collaborators from his landmark Woolf Works return, with a new score by Max Richter.

Atwood’s original dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and continued with The Year of the Flood, moves back and forth between the apocalyptic present and the past, in which survivors of a biological disaster grapple with its aftermath and the personal and political events that lead them there as they attempt to build a new community.

Wayne McGregor brings Atwood’s trilogy to the stage with panache, riffing on the writer’s themes of extinction and invention, hubris and humanity, love and loss, a vivid and dynamic exploration of life beyond societal collapse.

Viewing Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists

The Wick Culture - Lou Andreas-Salomé, c.1900
© Freud Museum London

Above Lou Andreas-Salomé, c.1900 © Freud Museum London

The Wick Culture - Photograph of Anna Freud (1920s), photographer unknown
© Freud Museum London

Above Photograph of Anna Freud (1920s), photographer unknown © Freud Museum London

The Wick Culture - Photograph of Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud taken in the study of Berggasse 19, Vienna, 1937
© Freud Museum London

Above Photograph of Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud taken in the study of Berggasse 19, Vienna, 1937 © Freud Museum London

Above Lou Andreas-Salomé, c.1900 © Freud Museum London

Above Photograph of Anna Freud (1920s), photographer unknown © Freud Museum London

Above Photograph of Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud taken in the study of Berggasse 19, Vienna, 1937 © Freud Museum London

Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists

Freud Museum
30 October, 2024 – 5 May, 2025

Women played an important and intriguing role in the development, and dissemination of, Freud’s theories and practice. The authors of ‘Freud’s Women’, the curators Lisa Appignanesi and Bryony Davies’ have drawn on their extensive research for the exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists, exploring the influence Freud’s female collaborators, from the early “hysterics”, the psychoanalyst referred to as ‘his teachers’, to later patients who would go on to become analysts. Several of those analysts – including Joan Riviere and Alix Strachey – worked on the translation of his Complete Works at Hogarth Press, first published 100 years ago.

Images, objects and footage bring the story of these women vividly to life. The room dedicated to Anna, Freud’s daughter, at the museum, will be brought into the dialogue of the show with new materials, and a new installation by ceramic artist Abigail Schama. Moving through the museum, Freud’s impact on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, and Tracey Emin is explored, as well as other female members of Freud’s family, and important symbolic female figures, such as his female goddesses and Gradiva – the figure that inspired Freud’s influential 1907 essay.