Welcome to Wednesday Wishes.
This week I have headed out of London to Manchester for Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons. Back in London Africa has featured in three of this week’s exhibitions: Pardner Hand at the Bank of England Museum, Lagos, Peckham, Repat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes at the South London Gallery and A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern. Over in Canary Wharf the Cultural Young Men and I experienced the surreal immersive Illusionaries.
Drumroll please. Vyki from Museum Mum and I pressed publish on the first edition of our podcast. This week we are talking about the six London exhibitions that we recommend this summer and one that we really want to see. Have a listen. Subscribe. Tell all your friends! Our next episode about outdoor sculpture is recorded and is being edited.
This week I visited Manchester for the first time in 20 years. It is a place transformed. I was there for the Manchester International Festival which is on until next weekend. Whilst there I searched for some of the 100,000 coins that are being hidden in central Manchester for the duration of the festival as part of Ryan Gander’s The Find. Over at the National Football Museum Tino Seghal has created This Entry with Juan Mater it is a performance that features bicycles, footballs and singing violinist and is free to see. Over at the Whitworth Art Gallery I enjoyed Economics the Blockbuster: It’s not Business as Usual looking at alternative economic models, as a former business and economics journalist I loved this. All in all I want to return to Manchester soon. The Whitworth looks really good and they also have a really interesting Albrecht Dürer exhibition on. I had to walk past the newly reopened Manchester Museum and the promise of Golden Mummies. Plotting my return.
Two unusual opportunities this weekend. The 1,000 year old gardens at Lambeth Palace are open this Friday 7 July. Doors open at noon and close at 3pm, tickets on the gate will cost £5 no pre booking. English National Opera are having a yard sale on July 7 & 8 at Stonelake Industrial Park, Woolwich. Prices start at £5 for costumes and props. No need to book
Happy Culturing
Catherine