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The burning question this week is possibly not: ‘What did it feel like to win a 12kg cake at the Ceri Hand Gallery’s Summer Fete?†But that’s what this post is about. Reader, it felt good. This blogger got a round of applause for a dubious and hitherto untried skill of guessing the weight of …
August 20, 2013
Some great links this week, a few of which I hope you’re tempted to click on: William Powhida and Jade Townsend have devised a scarily detailed map of the art world as a number of warring tribes, including an encampment for Critical Refugees. Lego has released an architects’ studio. Hundreds of white or clear bricks …
August 19, 2013
Found Objects are back. Sorry to regular readers for the break: Freelance journalist Francesa Borri is working for $70 a story. That’s $70 to cover the frontline of the war in Syria. (via Jude Sheerin) Bomb magazine links the work of Gordon Matta-Clark and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, all via the writing of Francis Ponge. Here’s a …
August 12, 2013
Written for Bad At Sports. It is more than 1,000 miles from Luton, England, to Reykjavik, Iceland. But Dominic from the UK town appears to love a good caper. Why else would he put together a group show on very little money in one of the most far flung and expensive cities in Europe? “It …
August 9, 2013
He grew up making fantasy art. He now sells ‘fantasy’ landscapes. But there can be few artists who cleave to the tradition of painting like David Wightman. Nevermind that he says of his mountainous scenes: “They’re fictions. They’re not real places.†Visiting his studio, I was struck by the minimal clutter in his space. Daylight …
August 5, 2013
Mr Bitchin’ is a contradiction. On one hand he says that jealousy gets him out of bed in the morning. On the other, he thinks for a moment before nodding and confirming his is happy with his life. And he should be, mind you. Robert Williams has reached the age of 70. He has a …
July 28, 2013
American readers will be lucky enough to see an art film by Jay Z next Friday on HBO. I say lucky, because – good or bad – this should be one compelling television event. If you weren’t already aware, the rap megastar spent six hours filming in Pace Gallery New York for a track on …
July 27, 2013
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