art blog since 2009
Busy times, but those Found Objects just keep coming: There’s a great profile of photographer Robert R McElroy in artcritical. How a former GI ended up as one of the very few people taking photos of the New York downtown scene of the 1960s Simon Reynolds recalls violence of music concerts in the early 1980s …
July 8, 2013
When the tide is going out and a wind is blowing from the East, crossing the Thames in a ferry is a skilled and hazardous affair. It is tempting to say Larsen charts a similar path. Work by this Danish artist rocks back and forth between beautifully composed segments of art film and fascinating clips …
June 30, 2013
Hello, arty people of the internet. Please find below links that may interest: Teutonic art of woodcut gets colourful makeover in 20th century Japan thanks to Kawanishi Hide (and thanks to @KathyKavan) David Lister is unshocked by the shocking current show at the ICA and asks for some right wing perspectives to stir things up …
June 24, 2013
This surely isn’t a complete picture of Swindon in the 1990s. And the town’s name sits at a variance with many of the other locations where Sean Smith has been to work. A current show in Kensal Green takes visitors to Palestine, Beruit, Johannesburg, Sarajevo and Kabul. But this town in South West England has …
May 31, 2013
Another week, another clutch of timely links: Interesting take on cave art, from the Travel Desk of the Guardian. “The good life was invented here,†says Robin McKie Playwright David Hare pays tribute to Patrick Caulfield. Ahead of the painter’s Tate Britain show this is well worth another visit to the Guardian site A witty …
May 27, 2013
Under normal circumstances the end of a world war might be cause for reflection. And indeed, each November we have institutionalised mourning at an almost mandatory level. But the cold war is different. Lives were only lost in countries the US and the USSR should never have been in. Remote peoples were armed and set …
May 25, 2013
It is one of the most frightening scenarios you can imagine: up to six armed drone aircraft circling your neighbourhood, preparing to strike and strike they do. Numbers are what surprised me most from reading James Bridle’s blog about unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. If six Reapers above your village doesn’t amount to terrorism, nothing …
May 21, 2013
Viewed through the baking darkness of a shipping container on a South coast beach, Critchley’s sub aquatic film floods the space with a certain amniotic calm. What you see is a cross section of a small indoor pool. With the ease of a water baby, a bikini clad free diver spins and flips back and …
May 20, 2013
Links once again compiled for your edification and delight. Please read responsibly: I suppose the art story of the week was a Gerard Richter painting breaking records for a living artist. “I just love it . . . I just love art,†says buyer But if you’re in New York you may have been more …
May 20, 2013
To stand facing this piece by David Wightman is, at a certain time of the day, to stand facing the sun as it sets behind Brighton’s much photographed West Pier. Indeed, Wightman has given us a landscape every bit as sugary as the canvases for sale down on the sea front in what has been …
May 19, 2013