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Better late than never; this week’s art links… The bravest art critic we ever had…some memories of Robert Hughes by his producer Nicolas Kent. Art Fag City advances the theory that art world success is a direct correlative of the curved edges of your spectacle frames. Oh dear. The dust has barely settled on this …
August 15, 2012
For your enjoyment and perusal: Na na na na-na-na nah, Ai Jude! China’s dissident art superstar gave the thumbs up to Britain’s opening ceremony for the 2012 London Games. Blogger Catherine Baker was more circumspect, but makes a number of good observations which still point towards room for optimism. RIP Franz West. Tyler Green from …
July 31, 2012
Not the most newsy of weeks, so go here for a Tate Tanks video. Otherwise: My dream gallery since I can but dream of going there. Hyperallergic pokes around in The State Tretyakove Gallery, Moscow. From that to this. A nightmare from the pages of Kafka turned into a sculpture currently on show at the …
July 24, 2012
Greetings art lovers. Have some links from the week just gone: Having once left Facebook and been lured back, my hat goes off to Man Bartlett who turned his departure into performance art Few writers have ever got to grips with evil like author of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell. Now he’s doing journalism in …
July 16, 2012
Apologies to anyone who checked in last week, I was on a break. Back on it now: So, Londoners, are you pro or anti the Shard? I only ask because nothing can compete with the wrath of Simon Jenkins in the Guardian. The same paper reports on a 5 year old abstract art prodigy from …
July 9, 2012
Another plethora of destinations for your mice or mobiles: Anish Kapoor proves fair game for the Occupy movement as several dozen rock up at one of his second homes. Two French museums dedicated to Henri Matisse to share a newly discovered cache of colourful, but unfinished, paper cut-outs. The 340-tonne boulder which travelled from rural …
June 27, 2012
Another conglomeration of interest piquers for you: Scientists have found the first suggestion that Neanderthals made cave art and tis strangely exciting. Upon the realisation this review has two inclusions of the word “Thwunk!†it had to be included: Adrian Searle on Yoko Ono. The iconic artist comes out somewhat better from this encounter with …
June 19, 2012
This week’s Found Objects are a taxidermy and economics special: This NYT piece claims the art market is a totally separate economy to the one the rest of us work in, thanks to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals. But UHNWIs maybe about to lose out, for a while at least, as the art bubble bursts. …
June 5, 2012
In case you missed the unmissable, here are this week’s links: The Guardian argues, selflessly, that the Parthenon marbles belong in Greece, and sadly appears to be right. Dana Schutz, who makes a virtue of painting’s limitations, is celebrated on Hyperallergic, and her work photographs well. Tracey Emin gets another feminist endorsement as novelist Jeanette …
May 21, 2012
Blimey, there is a lot to read this week: The New Aesthetic was much discussed. JJ Charlesworth puts it into a wider context of post-humanist thinking and behavioural economics. Writing for the L Magazine, Paddy Johnson meanwhile dismisses the movement, calling the New Aesthetic a “tumblr paired with a lecture circuitâ€. Hyperallergic, meanwhile, opt to …
May 14, 2012