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Viewing Albert Paley at Messums West

The Wick Culture - Courtesy of Messums West

Above Courtesy of Messums West

Albert Paley: Heavy Metal and the Art Nouveau
Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury

14 October 2023 – 14 January 2024

Those headed to Wiltshire this festive season should make a bee-line for Messums to see American modernist sculptor Albert Paley’s rhapsodies in metal. “Using metal is like drawing in space,” the artist once said, and his sinuous sketches in the air give the gallery’s vast tithe barn a magnetic charge. From the Victoria and Albert Gate, commissioned by the V&A in 1982, to the Fence of the Hunter Museum, Paley has pushed his medium in ever more inventive directions. On show are works from the past 35 years, alongside a collection of his drawings. Catch the exhibition before it closes on 14 January.

https://www.messums.org/exhibitions/albert-paley/

Viewing The Casablanca Art School at Tate St Ives

The Wick Culture - Mohamed Melehi, Untitled 1971 © Mohamed Melehi Estate. Courtesy of private collection, Marrakesh

Above Mohamed Melehi, Untitled 1971 © Mohamed Melehi Estate. Courtesy of private collection, Marrakesh

The Wick Culture - Mohammed Chabâa, Untitled, 1981, Natural wood, 15 x 15 cm, Mohammed Chabâa Estate

Above Mohammed Chabâa, Untitled, 1981, Natural wood, 15 x 15 cm, Mohammed Chabâa Estate

Above chabaa studio 66 MM

Above Mohamed Melehi, Untitled 1971 © Mohamed Melehi Estate. Courtesy of private collection, Marrakesh

Above Mohammed Chabâa, Untitled, 1981, Natural wood, 15 x 15 cm, Mohammed Chabâa Estate

Above chabaa studio 66 MM

The Casablanca Art School
Tate St Ives, Cornwall

27 May 2023 – 14 January 2024

If on a festive escape to Cornwall, let Tate St Ives transport you to warmer climes via its exhibition The Casablanca Art School. The show explores the artistic rebirth that followed Morocco’s independence, forged by the experimental teaching methods of the Casablanca Art School in the 1960s and 1970s.

Led by Farid Belkahia alongside Mohammed Chabâa, Mohamed Melehi and others, this pioneering institution spawned a new generation of socially engaged modern artists. Works by 22 of them showcase the Moroccan ‘new wave’, from vibrant abstract paintings and urban murals to graphics and interior design.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/casablanca-art-school

Doing London Made Me Shop

The Wick Culture - London Made Me pop up shop.
Carnaby Street
December 2023

Above London Made Me pop up shop. Carnaby Street December 2023

The Wick Culture - London Made Me pop up shop.
Carnaby Street
7th December 2023

Above London Made Me pop up shop. Carnaby Street 7th December 2023

Above London Made Me pop up shop. Carnaby Street December 2023

Above London Made Me pop up shop. Carnaby Street 7th December 2023

London Made Me
14 Carnaby Street, London, W1

2 December – 30 December 2023

The London Made Me shop is a retail store and a creative incubator rolled into one delightful Christmas package. Makers, artists and creatives from the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zones were tasked with learning the ropes of high street retail before building and trading in this collective space on Carnaby Street throughout December.

You can snap up the fruits of their labours, including limited-edition artworks, homewares, clothing, ceramics and gifts. Plus, visitors are encouraged to get in on the action via the store’s programme of workshops and events, including in-store live art murals, artist portrait sessions and more.