art blog since 2009
A film in the back room tells the story of Sein, who seems to be in perpetual flight around the city of Cairo. In piecing together her story, the artist may also be piecing together ours. Like Sein, we find ourselves lost in the city or at least the shop at 87 Sandgate Road, in …
August 23, 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
Posting early links this week, due to weekend commitments. So, erm, click while you’re ahead: Lucian Freud appears not to have liked social conventions, but I hope he would not mind the odd tribute or two. Martyn Gayford’s close, measured and warm recollections in the Telegraph are well worth a read. An Xiao’s piece in …
July 23, 2011
At about 12.30 last night a widely-published cartoonist had his email and password broadcast on Twitter. Mark Wood’s only connection to #hackgate is that he has also worked for The Sun. If his characters are anything to go by, Wood is a likeable sort. His client list suggests he’s hard-working. And indeed a web listing …
July 19, 2011
These links are from the past seven days. Feel free to enjoy as many as you like: Jonathan Jones uses his Guardian column to link departing CEO of News International Rebekah Brooks to both the Damsel of the Holy Grail and Mick Jagger. Legal news: a monkey takes a photo in the wild and back …
July 17, 2011
Don’t expect to find this in Duty-Free over the summer. Artist Jammie Nicholas has made a perfume from his own urine, faeces, sweat, hair and God knows what else. He is not the first artist to offer the public his own shit, but he may be the first to go to such lengths to make …
July 15, 2011
I struggled to find an art angle for the News of the World story, so here are the rest of the week’s most readables: Cy Twombly, already in the news with a show at Dulwich Picture Gallery, made more headlines by dying. Sebastian Smee in the Boston Globe compares his work to 1,000-year old bedsheets, in …
July 10, 2011
The clock face above Debenhams is one of the most mundane and predictable sights in any town. But Ruth Ewan has removed just two of the integers and the effect is hallucinatory. It may not slow traffic and find itself on TV idents in the way some public art has done over the years. But …
July 7, 2011
Things which I have come across this week include: Even as cuts cause pain elsewhere, last week’s auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s confirm that business is booming for blue-chip art. Check out this shrewd report from A Kick up the Arts. In a video for the Guardian, Jonathan Glancey turns his somewhat intense gaze on …
July 3, 2011