art blog since 2009
Sheesh, it’s hot. Before the Internet melts you may want to check out these links: A new film documents the remarkable life and living/working arrangement of psychiatric patient Yayoi Kusama. The 8-minute trailer alone is well worth a watch The Paris review carries a long read piece about artists’ novels. Just the very suggestion of …
July 22, 2013
There are worse crimes than misnomers. But after he arranged these shop-bought basketballs all that Jeff Koons had to do was name them. How could he get it so wrong? Alert readers will by now realise there are in fact four columns and six rows. Koons is no doubt aware of his slip. So it …
July 16, 2013
Busy times, but those Found Objects just keep coming: There’s a great profile of photographer Robert R McElroy in artcritical. How a former GI ended up as one of the very few people taking photos of the New York downtown scene of the 1960s Simon Reynolds recalls violence of music concerts in the early 1980s …
July 8, 2013
Feel free to peruse another bevvy of internet links: Brian Dillon talks about the so-called Phantom Rides of the early 1900s and segues into an intelligent review of the Simon Starling piece of the same name, currently on show at Tate Britain This is probably all kinds of reactionary, but does still hold a certain …
July 1, 2013
When the tide is going out and a wind is blowing from the East, crossing the Thames in a ferry is a skilled and hazardous affair. It is tempting to say Larsen charts a similar path. Work by this Danish artist rocks back and forth between beautifully composed segments of art film and fascinating clips …
June 30, 2013
Hello, arty people of the internet. Please find below links that may interest: Teutonic art of woodcut gets colourful makeover in 20th century Japan thanks to Kawanishi Hide (and thanks to @KathyKavan) David Lister is unshocked by the shocking current show at the ICA and asks for some right wing perspectives to stir things up …
June 24, 2013
I’ve just got back from a camping holiday in Normandy, but don’t worry I’m only bringing you the highlight, and that was a trip to MuMa. The region is holding its second ever Festivale Normandie Impressionniste and as luck would have it we caught what must be the flagship show in Le Havre. The theme …
June 22, 2013
Greetings all. Another week, another collection of art links form that week. So click away: Vanity Fair visits the studio of James Bridle for a piece about the New Aesthetic which might be a little overdue. Brightonians will be familiar with his work Guy with amazing collection of Black Flag fliers goes public in Vice …
June 17, 2013
Here’s the weekly selection of links. Thanks for reading, and please note this blog will be on a week’s holiday-enforced hiatus from . . . now. Entrepreneur plans world’s biggest art gallery on UK billboards. 15,000 displays of British art to go up soon. Street Fine Art or Fine Street Art? Check your phone and …
June 10, 2013
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