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‘Chastity I willingly acknowledge is one of the characteristic virtues of the female sex. But I may be allowed to ask—Is it the only one?’
This is one of the opening lines of Peg Plunkett’s 1795 memoir. An archetypal good girl, who became a fallen women and then rose to become Ireland’s premier courtesan, Peg built much of her adult life on challenging what society expected of her.
The story of her life is jam packed with scandal, sex and good times, it’s a proud middle finger up to gendered morality. But I have to tell you right now, this won’t just be a rollicking romp through Dublin’s red light district. Peg’s life was littered with tragedy, she was a victim of abuse and experienced a terrifying level of violence. But each time she somehow managed to come back, more brilliant and ballsy than before.
Peg Plunkett was one of histories greatest survivors and I cannot wait for you to meet her
Quick trigger warning this article contains mention of domestic violence, violence against women and miscarriage.
Peg was born in Killough sometime between 1727 (gaged from her last memoir) and 1742 (from modern historian findings.) If you’re thinking ‘dear god this is a ridiculous piss take of a lady never revealing her age’t
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As Western politics auto-destructs into a meme, grasping at attention like an upset toddler, the London art world continues to ignore it with quiet, maternal dedication. Will this weekend be any different? London’s younger galleries are fostering the work of a new generation to various degrees of novelty. Many participated in last year’s Frieze Spotlight – an event that felt like an ordinance for a scene that functions, for all its newness, with the semblance of what came before. I hoped the model of Condo – an art fair organized by Carlos/Ishikawa director Vanessa Carlos, in which small and mid-size local galleries host yet smaller galleries from abroad – could inspire a shift. Between reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Despair (1934), watching hyperspeed TikToks and tasteful, Lynchian AI edits on the purposely more fucked for-you-page of my private account, I walk between shows, searching for the three kinds of art I usually like: the macabre; musings on innocence; and quotations from the domestic. Five stars to any show that has all three.
At Auto Italia on Thursday night for Alex Margo Arden’s solo “Safety Curtain.” A show that looks at acts of vandalism against art across history – featuring exact reproductions of artworks after they’ve been targeted by protestors. These paint