A life of love letters, festival sculptures, and years in retrospect. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Brooklyn ARTery's Uncivilized Festival, @thebrooklynartery

Sculptures by Johannes Vanderbeek will be exhibited during Uncivilized Festival at The Brooklyn ARTery on January 5.

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS The new Royal Art Lodge exhibit at the School of Art gallery at the University of Manitoba on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. For Martin Zeilig story. Winnipeg Free Press 2024

The University of Manitoba is currently showing an extensive exhibition of works by Royal Art Lodge through January 17.

Drue Langlois photo, The Dudes of Hazmat, created by Drue Langlois.

Speaking of RAL, Winnipeg Free Press profiled former member Drue Langlois and his success as a popular indie cartoon animator. Check out his popular series Dudes of Hazmat on YouTube.

Sarah Staton, Gertrude Stein

Did you know Sarah Staton was the first artist to exhibit work at the original Soho House in London? As the global private member’s club celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025, we can thank Staton for being the harbinger of its ever-growing art collection.

Jonathan Horowitz' Self-Portrait in "Mirror #1" installed at his and Rob Pruitt's aPalm Springs home. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson

Work by Jonathan Horowitz was spotted in recent spread from Architectural Digest.

Wade Guyton and Tomohiro Masuda. Photo by Tokyo Art Beat

Wade Guyton was interviewed by curator Tomohiro Masuda about his current exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, on view through March 16.

Margaret Lee in her studio. photo and pictured artwork by Lee

Margaret Lee’s April 2024 Cultured Mag article was named as one of the pub’s top profile of 2024. Revisit it here.

Photographs that the artist Joe Brainard included in a 1961 letter. Credit: E.G. Schempf

Joe Brainard’s collected love letters, “Love Joe,” was recently reviewed in The New York Times. Some of those letters can now be read on The Dirtyverse.

www.839gallery.com

Joshua Smith’s gallery, 839, will open a new show featuring Tran Truong on January 11.