Random Recs: Sotheby’s, Jonathan Anderson, The Bitter End
A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…
1/ UK AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT. Next Thursday (12th June) sees the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt go on display in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, a combination of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels dedicated to approximately 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS in the UK. Alongside, there’s an hourly free screening of “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”, a recently rediscovered 50-minute documentary about the 1994 display of the quilt in Hyde Park. The quilt is on display at the Tate from 12-16 June; the film will be screened from 12-15 June. No booking required. Read more here.
2/ Is the end of the extremely online era nigh?
3/ Who asked for this SOTHEBY’S collab? Have we reached peak merch?
4/ Can’t wait to see THE BITTER END with Joan and Isabella. The upcoming biopic has Joan Collins playing the Duchess of Windsor and Isabella Rossellini playing her demonic lawyer, Suzanne Blum. Here’s hoping the costumes are fabulous.
5/ Revisiting this JONATHAN ANDERSON 032c long read from 2016. “People, for me, are a function. Is that awful? I curate people as much as I curate objects…” (And here’s my 2017 interview with him for Sotheby’s magazine on art, craft and collecting.)
6/ Please sign me up for the DIPTYQUE X SUSANNE KAUFMANN lip oil*. (Has anyone tried it?)
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: UK AIDS Memorial Quilt; Sotheby’s x Frame; The Bitter End; Susanne Kaufmann x Diptyque
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