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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
This surely isn’t a complete picture of Swindon in the 1990s. And the town’s name sits at a variance with many of the other locations where Sean Smith has been to work. A current show in Kensal Green takes visitors to Palestine, Beruit, Johannesburg, Sarajevo and Kabul. But this town in South West England has …
May 31, 2013
Another week, another clutch of timely links: Interesting take on cave art, from the Travel Desk of the Guardian. “The good life was invented here,†says Robin McKie Playwright David Hare pays tribute to Patrick Caulfield. Ahead of the painter’s Tate Britain show this is well worth another visit to the Guardian site A witty …
May 27, 2013
Under normal circumstances the end of a world war might be cause for reflection. And indeed, each November we have institutionalised mourning at an almost mandatory level. But the cold war is different. Lives were only lost in countries the US and the USSR should never have been in. Remote peoples were armed and set …
May 25, 2013