Here’s my pick of three things to do this week- the Monocle Christmas Market is a must, as is the Chapman brothers exhibition, but there’s also a whole lot of sample sales in the city this weekend. Enjoy!
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What: The Monocle Christmas Market
Where: Midori House, Dorset Street, London
When: Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 Dec
Monocle magazine’s HQ in Marylebone will be home for the weekend to Monocle’s favourite nations and retailers, mixing the best bits of Swiss Weihnachten, Japanese Kurisumasu and traditional Yuletide cheer. There’ll be stalls to buy christmas presents, reindeer petting, musical performances, warming treats from the Monocle Cafe and a Monocle Tombola (last year we were very lucky and won a meal for two in the delicious Dinings restaurant…).
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What: Jake and Dinos Chapman: Come and See
Where: Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
When: Until February 9
Come and See showcases the duos provocative and confrontational work, including their large Hell landscapes, such as Hell (2000) and The Sum of All Evil (2012-13). The grotesque and often surreal violence of these scenes is offset by the overwhelming detail and painstaking labour evident in many of the Chapmans’s works.
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What: Sample Sales this weekend!
Where: various locations, London
When: Saturday and Sunday
Blogger Susie Bubble has created a super useful calendar for this weekend’s sample sales. See it here. There’s Preen, Erdem, Sophia Webster and Emma Cook.
