EDITOR’S LETTER
Welcome to The Wick
Dear All,
Autumn arrives in a creative miasma: London is pulsing before Frieze Sculpture, London Design Festival, Digital Design Weekend and Chelsea Arts Festival all land within days of each other, right as Fashion Week’s opening bell sounds today. Add a restaurant devoted to $150m of art in Paris, a scandal rocking the Ed Sheeran tour and a permanent pavilion rising for Gerhard Richter in Doha, and the map looks glorious. Here’s what’s making headlines, and what’s worth your diary space.
Regent’s Park turns into an open-air gallery as Frieze Sculpture opens its 14th edition, with curator Fatoş Üstek assembling eleven international artists, among them Conrad Shawcross, Tarini Sethi and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendras. It’s free, with night tours too and it overlaps neatly with the 24th London Design Festival, which spreads 350-plus events across eleven design districts and crowns Jonathan Anderson with this year’s London Design Medal.
Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour has become an unlikely flashpoint after Macklemore was dropped from the bill following his ‘Free Palestine’ remarks, prompting Finneas and several other openers to quit in protest. Sheeran insists the call wasn’t his, but the backlash is harsh.
When central, check out Skepta as he takes over Piccadilly Lights, and screens in Lagos, Accra and Johannesburg, for CIRCA’s latest commission. It’s a meditation on identity, environment and tension. But if more in sofa mode this weekend Assouline unveils André Fu’s monograph, tracing 25 years of the Hong Kong designer’s hospitality work, from The Upper House to Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto, with conversations from Thomas Heatherwick and Audrey Diwan.
Happy Weekend and best wishes from,
Katy & The Wick KTW Family
Autumn arrives in a creative miasma: London is pulsing before Frieze Sculpture, London Design Festival, Digital Design Weekend and Chelsea Arts Festival all land within days of each other, right as Fashion Week’s opening bell sounds today. Add a restaurant devoted to $150m of art in Paris, a scandal rocking the Ed Sheeran tour and a permanent pavilion rising for Gerhard Richter in Doha, and the map looks glorious. Here’s what’s making headlines, and what’s worth your diary space.
Regent’s Park turns into an open-air gallery as Frieze Sculpture opens its 14th edition, with curator Fatoş Üstek assembling eleven international artists, among them Conrad Shawcross, Tarini Sethi and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendras. It’s free, with night tours too and it overlaps neatly with the 24th London Design Festival, which spreads 350-plus events across eleven design districts and crowns Jonathan Anderson with this year’s London Design Medal.
Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour has become an unlikely flashpoint after Macklemore was dropped from the bill following his ‘Free Palestine’ remarks, prompting Finneas and several other openers to quit in protest. Sheeran insists the call wasn’t his, but the backlash is harsh.
When central, check out Skepta as he takes over Piccadilly Lights, and screens in Lagos, Accra and Johannesburg, for CIRCA’s latest commission. It’s a meditation on identity, environment and tension. But if more in sofa mode this weekend Assouline unveils André Fu’s monograph, tracing 25 years of the Hong Kong designer’s hospitality work, from The Upper House to Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto, with conversations from Thomas Heatherwick and Audrey Diwan.
Happy Weekend and best wishes from,
Katy & The Wick KTW Family
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