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Criticismism has just got back from warmer climes. The excuse to visit Toledo was a family wedding. So I headed to Spain for the party and stayed for the El Greco. Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the painter known to art history as The Greek, plays a large role in the identity of this historic city. Here is …
September 13, 2012
Some athletically aggregated art links for the week. (That’s the only Olympics reference here): Like most nurses, C-Monster’s Art Nurse could surprise you with her technical knowledge. Here she is advising on a tricky restoration project This sculptural installation looks good on screen. Is that a strength of the photographer or a strength of Robert …
August 6, 2012
Another week on the news-and-views merry-go-round: Frieze claims the art world has swallowed up the art itself and Dieter Roelstraete bemoans the amount of reference-heavy work that has come about as a result. In the Guardian #1: Rachel Cooke visits Jenny Saville to conduct a wide ranging interview about the painter’s life and work. In …
June 11, 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
It’s been a rum week in the art world. So here’s some rum, distilled: A painted penis belonging to a portrait of the South African President is making plenty of headlines. In the latest twist Jacob Zuma’s lawyer weeps in court. Back in London meanwhile it is YBA artist Damien Hirst who some claim has …
May 29, 2012
Quite a newsy Found Objects this week, so hold page 23: German artists threaten to guillotine a sheep if the public don’t vote to save it. Let’s hope it has the X Factor; story in The Telegraph. Larissa Sansour has reimagined Palestine as a tower block. But the Swiss Musée d’Elysée got cold feet, or …
April 30, 2012
Another frenzy of links from the last seven days: Is anyone using Artstack yet, or is everyone using it already? *panics* Whatever the case here’s an enticing primer from the Guardian. As a victim of procrastination, I love this curated twitter stream by media artist Cory Arcangel: wrknonmynovel or “working on my novel”. Daily Serving …
April 23, 2012
It is the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympics, but you could be forgiven for letting the 2012 Cultural Olympiad pass you by so far. And if it conjures images of community dance projects and corporate sponsors holding up giant cheques at photo calls, you may be trying to ignore it …
April 19, 2012
Sorry for lack of recent posting, especially during such an eventful week. Here’s catching up: Saddest art story of the week was the death of Mike Kelley. Art Info posted a three minute video interview with the LA-based artist (thanks @markscottwood). Also from Art Info is this quick guide to the Qatar royal family, who …
February 6, 2012
With a major death, a minor spat and completely mad bit of art crit in Denver, the year has got off to an eventful start. Please enjoy any or all of the links below: Ronald Searle gets called “perhaps the greatest British graphic artist of the last 100 years” in this compelling obituary from the …
January 8, 2012