Last Tuesday Society

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] and a bar^[16] following a kickstarter campaign^[17] The Society has a long association with Hendricks Gin who have sponsored 'The Hendrick's Quarterly Seance'^[18] and seem to currently be sponsoring the exhibitions program on Alasdair Gray, Gunter Grass & Mervyn Peake.^[19]

The Society also has put on what it claims to be London's longest running lecture series with over 500 lectures in the last ten years.^[20]

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