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We are inspired by and learn from others. To every project, we bring ideas from personal experiences, observation and research. Our Influences capture artworks, ideas and initiatives from our immediate environment that we believe bring new perspectives.

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✨ We are hiring ✨

The Cosmic house is looking an Advancement and Partnerships Manager. 

This is a pivotal moment in The Cosmic House’s history, one that offers a dynamic creative individual, with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, the opportunity to build and nurture trusted relationships that will have a transformative impact on the museum’s future.

For more information and to apply, please see the full role description at the link in our bio.

#ArtsJobs #TheCosmicHouse #CharlesJencks #MaggieKeswickJencks #PostModernism
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We are looking for a new Development Manager to join our team!

The ideal candidate will lead our fundraising and strengthen the long-term sustainability of the organisation. Reporting to the Executive Director, the post holder will oversee a diverse portfolio spanning trusts and foundations, major donors, and our Friends and Patrons schemes.

To apply, please send a CV and a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4 to recruitment@pushkinhouse.org.uk by 21 November, with the subject line “Development Manager”.

🔗 More information about the role via the link in our bio.
#thankyou @kochibiennale and @shwetalashvinpatel a #thankyou @kochibiennale and @shwetalashvinpatel a great panel conversation with Kader Attia, curator of the seventh Kochi–Muziris Biennale, and Jitish Kallat, President of the Biennale, Shanay Jhaveri, Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican Centre. 
#KochiMuzirisBiennale #KMB2027 #KaderAttia #JitishKallat ShanayJhaveri
Sublime exhibition Liz Larner @camdenartcentre ap Sublime exhibition  Liz Larner @camdenartcentre apologies for poor photographs. #mustsee on til 17 Jan. From CAC text, “Unfolding across a series of rooms, … ranging from mythology and cosmology to transformation of matter in living systems, Larner is inclined towards post-human and eco-feminist thought…”
#thankyou @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig @marcoza #thankyou @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig @marcozapp @dhranko @daniel.birnbaum @jacquidavies__ @ryanjgander for talk and book launch at @friezemasters yesterday evening in advance of the exhibition opening @ogr_torino Repost from @daniel.birnbaum
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The Quantum Effect: Book launch at Frieze Masters, London, Koenig Books on Wednesday 14 October, 5.30 PM. Daniel Birnbaum & Jacqui Davies in conversation with Ryan Gander. 
 
Not a traditional catalogue, but an unconventional editorial object conceived as an extension of the exhibition project of the same name. Conceived and curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies, it draws inspiration from the black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, echoing its enigmatic nature.
 
Through artworks, cinema, and scientific experiments, the volume explores quantum theories and their symbolic representations, guiding the reader through spatial and temporal paradoxes, entanglement and superposition, teleportation, and dark matter.
 
Published by Verlag der Buchandlung Walther und Franz König it anticipates the second chapter of the exhibition. Following its presentation at SMAC Venice in 2025, The Quantum Effect will open at OGR Torino on 31 October, during Turin Art Week, in a new site-specific configuration.
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✨ Exclusive limited-edition print by Isaac Julien ✨

‘Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)’ (2025) by Isaac Julien (@isaacjulien) was created especially for The Cosmic House to coincide with the site-specific presentation of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ (2025), on view at the house until 18 December 2026. 

This print is generously offered in support of our mission, and all proceeds will go directly towards our educational and curatorial programmes. We are deeply grateful to Isaac Julien.

Head to the link in bio for more information and to purchase the print.

📸 Isaac Julien, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025. Inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss with glitter, 58 x 77 cm (unframed), Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro © Isaac Julien

#IsaacJulien #TheCosmicHouse #CharlesJencks MaggieKeswickJencks PostModernism
#thankyou @mohammadalfaraj (featured with my bike #thankyou @mohammadalfaraj (featured with my bike outside the Foundation) and to @theaaroncezar @sarahphilip and the team @delfinafdn for the special viewing of Mohammad Alfaraj’s solo exhibition The Heart is a Bird’s Nest The Brain is a Spider Web - selection of images from this #mustsee body of work
#thankyou to Director @esteierhoffer and Curator @ #thankyou to Director @esteierhoffer and Curator @anya_smrnv for inspiring insights into @thecosmichouse at this morning’s tours for Frieze Masters VIPs and to @isaacjulien for his remarkable installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis presented at the House until 18 December. To join @thecosmichouse community visit https://www.thecosmichouse.org/support Such a pleasure to collaborate with the wonderful team
#thankyou @studiotarekatoui for the exceptional ne #thankyou @studiotarekatoui for the exceptional new commission #hold for @tate looking forward to seeing and hearing it again when the crowds ebb
Such an inspiring talk #thankyou for lifting the “fog of normalcy” @annapuigjaner @thecosmichouse @esteierhoffer Repost from @riba
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Last week we were delighted to host this year’s Charles Jencks Award recipient, Anna Puigjaner (@annapuigjaner), for her winner’s lecture at the @aaschool. Presented annually, the award recognises an individual or practice that has made an outstanding contribution to both the theory and practice of architecture.

Through her theoretical and built work, Anna challenges established ideas about domesticity and how we live together, asking us to rethink housing as a form of collective infrastructure shaped by care, shared resources and social organisation.

Her work opens up new ways of thinking about how architecture can respond to the changing needs of society, and how the spaces we inhabit might support more diverse and equitable ways of living.

Thank you to Anna for sharing her insights, to Thomas Aquilina from @newarchwriters, for hosting the conversation and audience Q&A, and to everyone who joined us for an evening of thought-provoking discussion.

📷 @jackiekingphoto
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Can a new Russian bookshop become a place to build bridges?

In London’s Bloomsbury, an unassuming Georgian townhouse accommodates @pushkinhouselondon, a home for Russian culture. In a time of conflict, architect Alexander Brodsky hopes to connect it with a wider public.

Read more at our link in bio as The Observer’s architecture critic Rowan Moore spoke with Brodsky and Pushkin House director Elena Sudakova about the bookshop. 

Photography: Anastasia Belinskaya (@abelinskaya.photo) / Alexander Brodsky
New Review picture editor @cherylnewman1
#thankyou @musevery for yet another exceptional ex #thankyou @musevery for yet another exceptional exhibition Repost from @gallevery
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« SAM DOYLE: WHAT I PAINT IS HISTORY » IS OPEN NOW AT THE GALLERY OF EVERYTHING ON CHILTERN STREET.

WE WILL BE OPEN THROUGHOUT FRIEZE WEEK, FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM DAILY. 

SAM DOYLE IS A CRITICAL FIGURE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN SELF-TAUGHT ART OR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 1970S AND 80S.

DOYLE WAS BORN ON ST HELENA ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, INTO A GULLAH COMMUNITY SHAPED BY THE HISTORIES OF SLAVERY, EMANCIPATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF-DETERMINED BLACK CULTURE. 

DOYLE MEMORIALISED THE LOCAL POPULATION IN GRAPHIC PAINTINGS ON ROOFING TIN AND BOARD, PRESENTING THEM IN HIS YARD AS THE « ST HELENA OUTDOOR ART GALLERY ». 

WORD OF MOUTH BROUGHT DOYLE’S WORK TO A WIDER AUDIENCE, LEADING TO HIS INCLUSION IN THE SEMINAL EXHIBITION « BLACK FOLK ART IN AMERICA » AT THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART (WASHINGTON DC) IN 1982. 

FOR DETAILS AND SALES, PLEASE CONTACT THE GALLERY.

IMAGE:

SAM DOYLE 
« UNTITLED (SELF-PORTRAIT)» (C 1978/82)
PAINT ON PAPER

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« SAM DOYLE: WHAT I PAINT IS HISTORY »
THE GALLERY OF EVERYTHING
4 CHILTERN STREET, LONDON W1
4TH OCTOBER TO 22ND NOVEMBER 2026

COURTESY OF THE GALLERY OF EVERYTHING
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Musquiqui Chihying A Life of Navigation @Project S Musquiqui Chihying A Life of Navigation @Project Space recommend catching before it closes on 18 Oct. Image clip from The Jog (2014) featuring the artist as athlete on supermarket till conveyor belt
Looking forward to this exhibition at @whitechape Looking forward to this exhibition at  @whitechapelgallery It is always good to see how the spaces created through the capital campaign we created, so many years ago now,  are used to present new bodies of work Repost from @xavierhufkens
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#CeciliaVicuña’s first major UK exhibition is opening tomorrow at the @whitechapelgallery, London — on view until 14 February 2027 

Spanning six decades, this extensive exhibition entitled ‘Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads’ provides a unique opportunity to explore the interdisciplinary practice of Vicuña, one of Latin America’s most internationally renowned artists, poets and eco-feminist activists. Her practice intentionally dissolves the boundaries between visual art, poetry, performance, ritual and activism, and encompasses works across painting, textile, photography, installation and film.

Learn more via link in bio 🔗

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1: ‘Super Cacha’, 1973/2024; 3: ‘Quipu Menstrual’, 2006-2024; 4: ‘Sol triangular’, 2023; 5: ‘Chinampas Los Tules’, 2023; 6: ‘Ser eléctrico (Precarios)’, 2018. All images courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. @ceciliavicuna #whitechapelgallery
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Now open. ‘Sophie Calle: Something Missing?’

From love, loss and longing, to guilt, fear and embarrassment, with equal parts poetry, humour and conceptual rigour, influential French artist Sophie Calle has spent five decades tackling the big questions of human experience.

Featuring photography, text, video and installation spanning 1986–2026, ‘Something Missing?’ explores Calle’s multi-dimensional practice through a fresh lens. From the video installation ‘Voir la Mer’ (2011), capturing the emotional moment when Istanbul residents see the sea for the very first time, to an expansive presentation of ‘Catalogue Raisonné of the Unfinished’ (2023) in which Calle revisits her unrealised projects, the exhibition reveals a life-long commitment to an artistic practice that is consistently curious, witty, unflinching and deeply human.

Come and experience work by one of the world’s most boundary-pushing artists working today. 
 
Discover more at the link in our bio 🔗

❓’Sophie Calle: Something Missing?’
📅3 October 2026–24 Jan 2027
🕰️11am–5pm, Tue–Sun and bank holidays
📍Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate
🎟️Free entry

‘Something Missing?’ is organised by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Turner Contemporary and De Pont Museum, in close conversation with the artist.

‘Sophie Calle: Something Missing?’ is generously supported by @fluxus_art_projects with additional support from the Sophie Calle Exhibition Circle Supporter Circle: Cathy Wills Charitable Trust, Robert Bricout and Liesl Fichardt, Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation. Public funding thanks to @kcc_kent and @aceagrams.

📷 Portrait of Sophie Calle and exhibition installation views by @jounderhill 

#SophieCalle #TurnerContemporary #SomethingMissing #ContemporaryArt
@adansophiecalle #mustsee @turnercontemporary @adansophiecalle #mustsee @turnercontemporary
Endless summer Endless summer
Last night at @pamtanowitzdanceofficial : Pastoral Last night at @pamtanowitzdanceofficial : Pastoral Collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw, set by @sarahcrowner and exquisite colours of Reid Bartelme’s costumes @barbicancentre
RIP @pamhoggfashion RIP @pamhoggfashion
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Join us at The Cosmic House on 5 October for a very special Patrons’ event: Fireside Chat with artist Madelon Vriesendorp (@madelon_vriesendorp) in conversation with our Keeper of Meaning and Financial Times Critic, Edwin Heathcote (@heathcoteedwin).

Madelon was a long-life friend of Charles and Maggie Jencks and also collaborated with Charles on his landscape models and illustrated his books. Her illustrations for the OMA office influenced a whole generation of architects, and we are so pleased to have Madelon for such intimate event at the house.

Fireside Chats is a series of intimate gatherings at The Cosmic House featuring a diverse range of speakers, followed by refreshments. Created especially for The Cosmic House Patrons, these events are only occasionally opened to the wider public when limited spaces become available.

Head to the link in bio to book tickets for this special event.

📸 Madelon Vriesendorp. Photo by Giulio Sheaves.

#FiresideChat #MadelonVriesendorp #TheCosmicHouse CharlesJencks MaggieKeswickJencks PostModernism
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An ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris sp.) on a yarrow (Achillea millefolium) spotted during an excursion in Berlin. Photo: Frederic Griesbaum © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.Courtesy Gaia Art Foundation

 
 
 
 
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