Will Jennings
@willjennings.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Director: Hypha Studios
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
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Editor: recessed.space
Director: Hypha Studios
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
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Will Jennings
@willjennings.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and a Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers
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Making my Art Newspaper podcast debut here, taking to Ben Luke about the work we do at Hypha Studios:
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Tips for nice affordable places to eat and drink dark beers in Rotterdam please?
February 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Tips for nice affordable places to eat and drink dark beers in Rotterdam please?
So glad that Keir Starmer is doing things to help "enhance the UK!s creative industries"... This should help me get a better salary and more security.
February 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
So glad that Keir Starmer is doing things to help "enhance the UK!s creative industries"... This should help me get a better salary and more security.
Always so insightful.
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Always so insightful.
BIG news for architectural labour protests as Bjarke Ingels doesn't make enough millions a year to year his workers fairly. Seems like employment can't have the hedonistic sustainability he goes on about...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
BIG news for architectural labour protests as Bjarke Ingels doesn't make enough millions a year to year his workers fairly. Seems like employment can't have the hedonistic sustainability he goes on about...
C/O @unitetheunion.bsky.social
C/O @unitetheunion.bsky.social
This is awful. It's over complicated, and weirdly includes the London Underground logo even though it's the Italian embassy for all of Britain.
The Italian Embassy's new logo looks surprisingly familiar | Creative Bloq share.google/yyidlaOk0UaR...
The Italian Embassy's new logo looks surprisingly familiar | Creative Bloq share.google/yyidlaOk0UaR...
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This is awful. It's over complicated, and weirdly includes the London Underground logo even though it's the Italian embassy for all of Britain.
The Italian Embassy's new logo looks surprisingly familiar | Creative Bloq share.google/yyidlaOk0UaR...
The Italian Embassy's new logo looks surprisingly familiar | Creative Bloq share.google/yyidlaOk0UaR...
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At Edinburgh’s RSA, architect Richard Murphy looks at the generational family tree of design
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00313 - Richard Murphy Generation RSA — recessed.space
At Edinburgh’s RSA, architect Richard Murphy looks at the generational family tree of design At the Royal...
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February 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
At Edinburgh’s RSA, architect Richard Murphy looks at the generational family tree of design
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Can’t believe Labour are briefing such a poor line, when an obvious response is “why is the party who blocked a local candidate from running because he’s midway through his political term calling a London Assembly member ‘chicken’ for not running to be MP of a constituency 160 miles from his home?”
A Labour spokesperson, responding to Zack Polanski’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg, said: "If [he] thought the Greens had a chance in Gorton and Denton he wouldn't have chickened out standing himself."
This is pretty weak IMO - Polanski is a serving London Assembly member and lives in Hackney...
This is pretty weak IMO - Polanski is a serving London Assembly member and lives in Hackney...
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Can’t believe Labour are briefing such a poor line, when an obvious response is “why is the party who blocked a local candidate from running because he’s midway through his political term calling a London Assembly member ‘chicken’ for not running to be MP of a constituency 160 miles from his home?”
The UK Treasury didn't read my piece for The Art Newspaper perhaps!
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February 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The UK Treasury didn't read my piece for The Art Newspaper perhaps!
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Thank god that the art market Kapoor soaks himself in is not similarly "deeply entrenched in money and gross capitalism". This seems like a really clever, considered, meaningful response to awful people putting awful things into space.
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Thank god that the art market Kapoor soaks himself in is not similarly "deeply entrenched in money and gross capitalism". This seems like a really clever, considered, meaningful response to awful people putting awful things into space.
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Just say Neil Gaiman, this is taking forever.
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Just say Neil Gaiman, this is taking forever.
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Oh. What a surprise. Now the very silly Cube thing is also cancelled.
Lots of ethicless architects, engineers & advisors out of jobs.
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Lots of ethicless architects, engineers & advisors out of jobs.
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Exclusive: Saudi Arabia shelves Mukaab 'The Cube' project, world's largest skyscraper
Saudi Arabia has suspended planned construction of a colossal cube-shaped skyscraper at the center of a downtown development in Riyadh while it reassesses the project's financing and feasibility, four...
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January 29, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Oh. What a surprise. Now the very silly Cube thing is also cancelled.
Lots of ethicless architects, engineers & advisors out of jobs.
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Lots of ethicless architects, engineers & advisors out of jobs.
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Today i went to Brussels to see an enormous arts centre that's really more masterplan than architecture.
January 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Today i went to Brussels to see an enormous arts centre that's really more masterplan than architecture.
Only a few seats left
On Wed 04 Feb I am spending 15 minutes talking about Buster Keaton and how he destroyed architecture, alongside other esteemed speakers at Site&Sound, The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, London.
Tix here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/sitesou...
Tix here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/sitesou...
January 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Only a few seats left
It's such a dereliction of duty that the local paper for a city like London can't discuss serious subjects like housing & planning unless it's through the lens of Marvel, someone from Squeeze, a bitpart actor from Miranda and Marvel. It's so grotesquely patronising & fucked up.
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 PM
It's such a dereliction of duty that the local paper for a city like London can't discuss serious subjects like housing & planning unless it's through the lens of Marvel, someone from Squeeze, a bitpart actor from Miranda and Marvel. It's so grotesquely patronising & fucked up.
I'm at an exhibition opening.
Come for the art, stay for the negronis.
Come for the art, stay for the negronis.
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I'm at an exhibition opening.
Come for the art, stay for the negronis.
Come for the art, stay for the negronis.
Tarek Atoui is an excellent choice for the next Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission & it will annoy the right people too. I've seen his work in several locations, written about it a few times & had a lovely chat with him in Madrid last year which you can read here:
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Mountain Echoes: Tarek Atoui at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum – Canvas
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January 26, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Tarek Atoui is an excellent choice for the next Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission & it will annoy the right people too. I've seen his work in several locations, written about it a few times & had a lovely chat with him in Madrid last year which you can read here:
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MPs' pay should be pegged to Britain's arts culture funding.
'I’m not always convinced [growth] is the number one mission of every government department,' business secretary Peter Kyle told the FT. ft.trib.al/IhcOUcZ
January 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
MPs' pay should be pegged to Britain's arts culture funding.
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"bringing back the frost fair" is a heck of a mayoral pledge
My spirit animal is getting brutally abused by fascists. What did penguins do to deserve this?
January 25, 2026 at 12:07 PM
"bringing back the frost fair" is a heck of a mayoral pledge
January 25, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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🟦 Why this week’s announcement of £1.5bn in cultural funding was not quite the transformative moment it claimed to be
DCMS pledges £1.5bn funding. Is it enough?
PLUS: V&A director wants more gratitude from government
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January 24, 2026 at 12:17 PM
🟦 Why this week’s announcement of £1.5bn in cultural funding was not quite the transformative moment it claimed to be
We should boycott the World Cup.
Obviously the FA won't, and FIFA won't, they are designed to support whatever fascist agenda develops, but *we* should. Just don't watch it, even if England it Scotland or Wales or either Ireland get to the final bits. Just ignore it, fascism craves attention.
Obviously the FA won't, and FIFA won't, they are designed to support whatever fascist agenda develops, but *we* should. Just don't watch it, even if England it Scotland or Wales or either Ireland get to the final bits. Just ignore it, fascism craves attention.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:54 AM
We should boycott the World Cup.
Obviously the FA won't, and FIFA won't, they are designed to support whatever fascist agenda develops, but *we* should. Just don't watch it, even if England it Scotland or Wales or either Ireland get to the final bits. Just ignore it, fascism craves attention.
Obviously the FA won't, and FIFA won't, they are designed to support whatever fascist agenda develops, but *we* should. Just don't watch it, even if England it Scotland or Wales or either Ireland get to the final bits. Just ignore it, fascism craves attention.
I've lost count of how many sharks dezeen has now jumped.
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I've lost count of how many sharks dezeen has now jumped.
I don't understand the context or whatever AI shit this fascism is from. But I love penguins, they are my spirit animal, and such a communal, socialist bird would never go hand-in-flipper with a fascist. So he can fuck right off.
[Wrong continent from the incontinent]
The White House: ‘Embrace the penguin.’
The White House: ‘Embrace the penguin.’
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The White House: ‘Embrace the penguin.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44vryxuypemvgsck5xkhppf3/bafkreibxmth67yu5h7dkykrqz2l3hgqnxmhgcpt762kf6rpl7fzda5hkge@jpeg)
January 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I don't understand the context or whatever AI shit this fascism is from. But I love penguins, they are my spirit animal, and such a communal, socialist bird would never go hand-in-flipper with a fascist. So he can fuck right off.