LYDIA ELIZA TRAILL is a cultural critic and arts writer based in London. In her last text for Spike, she reviewed a Parker Ito gesamtkunstwerk at Rose Easton.
A flush, on-foot, rabbit-fur-coated tour around cOnDo LoNdOn 2025, an international gallery mixer where everyone seems like a twenty-something or a millionaire (or both).
In London, a Gesamtkunstwerk by the post-internet artist par excellence claims medieval guilds, Albrecht Dürer, and Wagnerian opera as precedents for scattering the ashes of authorship.
The author of My First Book on the tattoos she regrets, retelling Shakespeare for Gen Z, and how long it takes for a cultural event to become a bouncy house.
