art blog since 2009
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
Well, here’s your regular pick of the best art links around: Art Observed report on a fine looking Sol LeWitt show at Marian Goodman gallery in Paris Contemporary Art Daily also have pictures from what seems like a cracking show: Judith Bernstein at the New Museum ArtInfo carry a short film about Russian art world …
January 7, 2013
Ignoring the three hour old news about the Turner Prize, here are a week’s worth of high quality links: You live by the market, you die by the market. Business Week reports that Damien Hirst has officially jumped the shark Guest on this week’s Modern Art Podcast is Sophie Calle. Find out where she plans …
December 3, 2012
Sad week, as the extent of a hurricane’s destruction becomes apparent: But Chelsea gallerists are a resilient breed. So discovers the New York Times as Roberta Smith assesses damage caused by Sandy Art is no longer cool, according to Jacob Willer. This could be the best thing to happen to art since, well, since it …
November 5, 2012
Even as he maintains his emolient sales pitch for rich customers, it is worth bearing in mind the real world catastophe at which Jeff Koons’ puppy was at the centre. This piece of inoffensive topiary is as cuddly as any 43ft high sculpture could ever be. Containing 60,000 plants it is said to be a …
November 3, 2012
Storms have pushed art somewhat off the agenda this week. Imagine what Sandy might have done to a Frieze tent, anyway, I digress: Hyperallergic art blog catered for all your climate news needs, with a collection of photos compiled from social media by Hrag Vartanian. On the Guardian’s Northerner blog, Liverpudlian Kenn Taylor takes the …
October 31, 2012
Between the condoms by the notorious bed to the film about abortion, childlessness has emerged as a major theme in the work of Tracey Emin. As if she has traded creative fecundity for motherhood, her prolific art has more in common with masturbation rather than procreation. She sketches the former activity at length. In a …
October 24, 2012
Apologies for the fortnight off, but my weekly link selection is I hope back on track: Romance of the ruin doesn’t sound half bad, but Steven Thomson is concerned that, in the wake of the Olympics, two of the most signifcant East London art projects were too nostalgic. A new service brings you “Everything you …
September 24, 2012
This piece floats on a perilous sea of style mags; they buoy up a marble-effect plinth. Matthew Stone is not cool, he is stone cold. But these publications have more gravity than usual. Their covers are stuck to blocks of wood, giving each more permanence than a sheaf of glossy pages. A muted printing technique …
September 18, 2012