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The Last Tuesday Society is a London based organization founded by William James at Harvard and run by artist Viktor Wynd [1] and puts on literary and artistic events [2]
The Society has put on a large array of parties over the last 8 years or so, including Halloween Balls [3], Wyndstock, a festival at Houghton Hall in Norfolk [4], The Animal Party [5], From The Beast To The Blond - a Fairy Tale Masked Ball with Marina Warner [6] The Orphanage Masked Ball [7], a Danse Macabre [8] and 'Loss; an Evening of Exquisite Misery' and modern day version of Gunter Grass's Fictional onion cellar nightclub from The Tin Drum where guests dress in decaying beauty, chop onions and cry [9]
Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors was located in Mare Street Hackney and dealt in taxidermy, shrunken heads and all things odd [10] Viktor Wynd Fine Art was a commercial gallery where over 50 shows were curated including on Mervyn Peake [11] Tessa Farmer [12] Leonora Carrington [13] and Stephen Tennant [14] In 2014 the shop and art gallery were converted into The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History [15] following a kickstarter campaign [16] The Society has a long association with Hendricks Gin who have sponsored 'The Hendrick's Quarterly Seance' [17] and seem to currently be sponsoring the exhibitions program on Alasdair Gray, Gunter Grass & Mervyn Peake [18]
The Society also has put on what it claims to be londons longest running lecture series with over 500 lectures in the last ten years [19]
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- ^ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/london-underground-at-home-with-vintage-design/
- ^ http://www.tntmagazine.com/london/night-life/halloween-horror-celebrate-all-hallows-eve-with-the-last-tuesday-society-the-halloween-masked-ball-or-at-eat-your-heart-out-in-london
- ^ http://www.run-riot.com/wild-card/wyndstock-midsummer-nights-ball-garden-party
- ^ http://www.londontown.com/LondonEvents/The-Animal-Party/78003/
- ^ http://www.remotegoat.com/uk/event/78790/marina-warner-from-beast-to-blonde-fairy-tale-masked/
- ^ http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-orphanage-masked-ball-3
- ^ https://londonparticulars.wordpress.com/tag/last-tuesday-society/
- ^ http://www.run-riot.com/club/loss-evening-exquisite-misery-arts-theatre
- ^ http://howtospendit.ft.com/home-accessories/3227-little-shop-of-horrors
- ^ http://fadmagazine.com/2011/07/08/mervyn-peake-and-maeve-gilmore-at-viktor-wynd-fine-art-art-opening-saturday-9th-july-2011/
- ^ http://magpiemag.tumblr.com/post/9701912991/the-fairies-are-coming-tessa-farmer
- ^ http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2011/10/leonora-carrington-show.html
- ^ http://sergeandtweed.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/stephen-tennant-at-viktor-wynd-fine-art.html
- ^ http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/picasso-museum-of-creepy-curiosities-opens-in-london-9845703.html
- ^ http://hackneypost.co.uk/2014/03/22/hackney-little-shop-of-horrors-museum/
- ^ http://ginlanebar.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/spirit-forces-at-work-at-hendricks.html
- ^ https://londonist.com/2015/09/alasdair-gray-gunter-grass-and-mervyn-peake-at-the-viktor-wynd-museum-of-curiosities
- ^ http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-viktor-wynd-museum.html