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Since we now have to pay tax on extra bedrooms, here’s a worthwhile bit of DIY. Why not transform your spare room into a gallery? Even if there’s no guarantee it will pay out. Requirements include lights and paint, both white, plus a tonne of hard work. But at least now the gallerist (Daniella Norton) …
June 9, 2013
Sculptor Gavin Turk is perhaps best known for work about Gavin Turk. He has dressed as Sid Vicious and posed for a waxwork, or dressed as a vagrant. He has posed for photos as Andy Warhol or Che. And his degree show consisted simply of a blue plaque confirming his historic residence at the RCA. …
May 12, 2013
Anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with the practice of artist Martin Creed will know all about the fastidious numbering of his works. These begin with Work No.3 in 1986 (a yellow painting) and so far stretch as far as this year’s Work No. 1461 (an installation made with adhesive tape). What might surprise …
April 30, 2013
There’s a political and a performative flavour to Found Objects this week, read on and enjoy: Scriptonite blog plays tribute to an incredible stunt by the soi-disant Artist Taxi Driver, as backdoor privatisation hits the NHS. We Make Money Not Art has interviewed Liberate Tate, and its happy to play devil’s advocate on this issue …
April 28, 2013
A depressing week for current affairs not least for lack of art angles: Instead we have a link to a Q&A with a very terse William Eggleston from the Independent Meanwhile a serious critique of some watercolours by less radical artist, Prince Charles Hennessy Youngman has released this half hour cut of so-called CVS Bangers. …
April 21, 2013
Does rock count as art? If so there can only be one major story this week. Here it is along with all the others: Said rock band My Bloody Valentine release first new album for 22 years and Pitchfork give it a rare 9.1 out of 10 Syliva Plath also made headlines this week. London …
February 6, 2013
Here’s criticismism’s weekly selection of art links, gathered for your enjoyment: A Belgian living in Mexico with a nice line in political interventions around the world: Modern Art Notes podcast scores an interview with Francis Alÿs Mark Brown from the Guardian takes a look at the new Kurt Schwitters retrospective at Tate Britain, another reappraisal …
January 29, 2013
Welcome back to the week you’ve just lived through, but this time with premium quality links: Saddest thing in the world: when an outlaw street artist is fully embraced by the mainstream. Cameron and Branson must really have it in for Ben Eine. This story is weird and a bit one sided. But it’s always …
January 21, 2013
Books come in all shapes and sizes, but perhaps the most potent format is both small and black. The collected quotes of Ai Weiwei should have come in nothing less. Editor Larry Warsh has trawled through some 74 interviews with the Chinese artist to bring readers in the West a meditation on his life and …
January 19, 2013
Top stories of the week include a portrait of a future queen and the new single by a former one. Read on… There was much derision heaped upon Kate Middleton’s first officical portrait. My favourite was this example by Mark Hudson in the Telegraph Bowie records an album in secret. But hold on, wasn’t this …
January 14, 2013