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Why it should be pleasant to imagine aliens are invading planet earth is not clear. But the only clear result of a recent hoax broadcast from BBC Radio Merseyside was listening enjoyment. The Halloween transmission may have confused a few people, but it was nothing like the famous Orson Welles stunt of 1938. There are …
November 4, 2011
Resisting the temptation to do a Halloween special, here are a bunch of largely unfrightening links. Enjoy: As the art world’s most eminent reflect on where they stand in the Power 100 in Art Review, Hyperallergic completes the picture with the Powerless 20. Funny it is too. Carsten Höller’s show at the New Museum sound …
October 31, 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
Weekend shenanigans have led to a late and somewhat hasty collection of links this week. But nonetheless I hope you enjoy: There are plenty of laughs here as Hennessy ‘Art Thoughtz’ Youngman makes an offline appearance at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Pictures are well worth 1,000 words as this Wells Tower flash fiction, alongside …
October 3, 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
As with any 21st century talent contest, the three judges in Casting Jesus are impatient, cutting and at times cynical. They praise as well, of course, but not always with great sincerity. But unlike the panels we know from primetime TV, these worldly starmakers are a Vatican priest, a Vatican newspaper art critic, and a …
September 20, 2011
Here are some of the best reads/watches/gapes from the last seven days: What do we really learn from a £440 million memorial to 9/11? asks Tiffany Jenkins in the Indpendent. A child’s eye view of Palestine gets banned from a Museum of Childrens Art in California. Read the story on Hyperallergic and do check the …
September 18, 2011
On paper, this is a place to come face to face with your greatest fear: a labyrinth in whose depths you will find monuments.pertaining to four major religions. But the deity or beast you are most likely to meet will be dressed in your clothes and looking back at you from one of the many …
September 7, 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
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