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Once again I’ve whittled down the infinite reaches of the world wide web into ten or so convenient destinations just for you: Not entirely art related but this does feature some highly creative metaphors: John Lichfield writes about the Eurozone crisis in the Independent (via @tds153) Also in the Independent, gallerist Richard Cork tells us …
November 7, 2011
In solidarity with occupy Sotheby’s, etc, criticismism has been occupying GoogleReader to bring you another bunch of links: It could always be worse. So suggests Der Spiegel who report on the publication of a database of Nazi appproved art. Being dubious about the Museum of Everything, I liked this Jonathan Griffin piece which raises questions. …
October 24, 2011
Post-Frieze comedown fodder: Too much has been written about the fair this year, I know. But this sharp analysis by critic JJ Charlesworth makes a lot of sense. Non-native English speakers only need to know 1500 words and ‘globish‘ is one of them. The Guardian also reports from a talk at Frieze. If you’re not …
October 17, 2011
More time has elapsed. More links have accrued. Thank you, as ever, for reading… RIP Steve Jobs. Very sad, of course, but as Art Info point out he was hardly Che Guevara. Although as Slate recall, he did once drop acid. Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective have captured the flowering of a utopian protest movement in Wall …
October 10, 2011
Once again, here are some of the more readable/watchable/listenable links from the past seven days: “Freud’s cranium is a snail”: listen to a short radio 4 programme about the meeting between the founder of psychoanalysis and Salvador DalÃ. Tom McCarthy, in the Guardian, provides some intelligent appetite whetting for the forthcoming Gerhard Richter show at …
September 24, 2011
My abiding memory of September 11 is soul searching about the point of starting an MA in one of the bars at the University of Sussex. Not sure that we ever reached any conclusion: Jerry Saltz, however, was collecting missing person posters and you can read his confession of sorts on artnet. For all other …
September 11, 2011
How was your week? Mine was all the better for finding these 10 links: Christopher Hawthorne in the LA Times reports on boom time for skyscrapers. To quote from movie Life Stinks: “Gentlemen, you’ll never know how much this project excites me.” And as we approach 9/11/2011, at least one bit of reportage now looks …
September 4, 2011
Some links from the last seven days. The internet has been busy again: Once you start building a bunker, it hardly ever ends well. As Gaddafi hunkers down in Tripoli (presumably), Jonathan Glancey looks at his architecture. Does art change nothing? This galvanising piece on The Daily Serving finds street art in the thick of …
August 27, 2011
Allow me to pilfer some more of your time for this week’s selection of links. Theft has emerged as a bit of a theme: Der Spiegel carries an interesting long read about a time when tourism and archaeology went hand in hand. Berlin’s famous bust of Nefertiti is just one item Egypt wants back. Then …
August 19, 2011
After an unplanned hiatus, this blog returns with another selection of links: items from the last seven days in descending order of topicality… Nevermind the stock cupboards of Footlocker, etc. Lucy Inglis in the Guardian laments the Victorian architecture which suffered at the hands of rioters in Tottenham. Tattooist Louis Molloy is another victim of …
August 12, 2011