Got them back to school blues? Not us, we love September and we've got some tasty art treats to placate you with this autumn: Lee Krasner at the Barbican, Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern, and the BP Portrait Award. We then get into the nitty gritty of who is Super-Curator HUO (Hans Ulrich Obrist) and his insane work ethic and distaste for sleep. We ponder if creatives are now expected to be working to such extreme levels of productivity, and what do we lose because of this? Our September artist focus is the queen of the line, Bridget Riley. Now in her 88th year, this British artist hasn't stopped teasing our optic nerves since the 1960s. Ahead of a major retrospective exhibition coming to the Hayward Gallery this autumn, we've taken a moment to reflect on her epic career.

SHOW NOTES
Lee Krasner at the Barbican (sadly now closed): https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/lee-krasner-living-colour
Olafur Eliasson 'In Real Life' until 5 January 2020 at the Tate Modern: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson
Will Gompertz's review of 'In Real Life': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48965313
Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing 'Ice Watch': https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson-and-minik-rosing-ice-watch
Visit the Art Newspaper podcast episode on 26 July 2019 that includes an interview with Eliasson.
Instagram recommendations: @campbell.hector
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-qiang: https://www.netflix.com/title/80097472
Bauhaus 100: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007trf
Bauhaus Rules with Vic Reeves: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007tqs
'Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else' by David Balzer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curationism-Curating-Took-World-Everything/dp/0745335977
Hans Ulrich Obrist's morning ritual on Nowness: https://www.nowness.com/story/hans-ulrich-obrist-morning-ritual and via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/28/hans-ulrich-obrist-tastemakers-maria-balshaw-fabien-riggall-inspirations
BP Portrait Award until 20 October 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2019/exhibition/
Vanessa Garwood: http://www.vanessagarwood.com/about/
'Messengers' by Bridget Riley at the National Gallery: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/messengers-by-bridget-riley-a-new-work-at-the-national-gallery
Bridget Riley's exhibition coming to Hayward Gallery 23 October 2019 - 26 January 2020: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/bridget-riley
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat: https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/archive/bridget-riley-learning-from-seurat
London Sinfonietta are commissioning a piece of music inspired by Bridget Riley: https://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/homage-bridget-riley
A Financial Times interview with Riley: https://www.ft.com/content/aac6af02-deb4-11e8-b173-ebef6ab1374a