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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
I’m not even going to mention the most famous toilet in modern art, but here’s another pretender to the throne, no pun intended. Hundertwasser was an Viennese architect. His quirky creations are a guide book mainstay, with their undulating floors and irregular windows. Coach parties love him. Just streets apart in the East of the …
December 13, 2011
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
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