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Weekend Combo: New Puritans, Warhol and snooping
Art | 20 September 2013
Text Thomas Davis
This article is part of Weekend Combo – What to do this weekend

We bring you our guide to living well in the world’s capitals, from exhibitions to cinema, food, drink, fashion, music and beyond. Just call it culture and take it, it’s yours.

LONDON, SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2013

PEEK Moominvalley-gone-phallic
Phoebe Collings-James presents Lament for the Walking Dead, her first solo show in London, her home city, since 2011’s Broken Hearts Requiem. Since then she’s shown everywhere including New York, Berlin, Beirut, Madrid, Lisbon, Athens, Los Angeles, as well as Miami Art Basel, the 2012 Marrakech Biennale and most recently at the noise-making Preteen Gallery in Mexico. (Yes we got the name right). For this show, think a mix of Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley and the costumery of the Ku Klux Klan; depravity of thought in the dressing up box.

Phoebe Collings-James: Lament for the Walking Dead (until 5th October 2013),
The Cob Gallery, 205 Royal College Street, London NW1 0SG

MIMICK Tony Soprano – or Samantha Jones recovering after too many Dirty Martinis. No judgement
Morini Meatballs. The Patty Melt Burger Sandwich. Cottage pasta pie. Droolin’ yet or what? Get yourself down to the new Chop Shop in Haymarket for your hangover-cure NYC style. These guys aren’t messing, serving up the favourites of their East Coast locals on planks. Perfect for shovelling.

Chop Shop , midday to midnight daily, 66 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RF

WATCH a Warhol time capsule being opened (yes, really)
Andy Warhol once said, “It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.” That’s a bit beyond even the power of the ICA. Still, the recently launched Off-Site exhibition space will play host to a live-screen viewing of a Warhol time capsule opening, which IS a kind of reincarnation. Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, USA, seeing such a momentous event on screen is very Warholian in itself.

Out of the Box: Live Warhol Time Capsule Opening, Saturday 21st September, 18:30,
(A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now is still running too. Check it out while you’re there),
ICA Off-Site at The Old Selfridges Hotel, 1 Orchard Street, London, W1H 6HQ

GO BACK TO 1985 with Michael Clark
Tracking a day in the life of legendary Scottish choreographer Michael Clark, then 23, Charles Atlas shot the film as a mockumentary. Watch as he and his company prepare for a performance of The New Puritans. With an amazing soundtrack courtesy of The Fall, watch in the very space it was filmed. Popcorn included with ticket, too.

Michael Clark/Charles Atlas: Hail The New Puritan, Saturday 21st September, 19:00,
Chisenhale Dance Space, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ

SEE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS without getting arrested
The annual Open House weekend, taking place this saturday and Sunday, gives Londoners the chance to explore behind the closed doors of some of the capital’s biggest, most renowned and most secret venues. There are over 800 to chose from, but we’ve picked our favourites:

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
Beautiful, intricate and impressively huge Hindu temple made with 5000 tonnes of Italian Carrara and Indian Ambaji marble. Hand carved in India then shipped to London to be assembled in Neasden.

Saturday 21st September and Sun 22nd September, 10:00 – 16:00,
105-119 Brentfield Rd, London NW10 8LD

Trellick Tower
Completed in 1972, Ernö Goldfinger’s 31-storey Trellick Tower is social housing in the style of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation. It’s also London’s most famous brutalist building.

Sunday 22nd September, 10:30 – 17:00,
5 Golborne Rd, London W10 5UT

St Paul’s Cathedral
No explanation necessary, tbh

Saturday 21st September, 10:00 – 16:00,
St Paul’s Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD

 




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