art blog since 2009
It is one of the most frightening scenarios you can imagine: up to six armed drone aircraft circling your neighbourhood, preparing to strike and strike they do. Numbers are what surprised me most from reading James Bridle’s blog about unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. If six Reapers above your village doesn’t amount to terrorism, nothing …
May 21, 2013
Viewed through the baking darkness of a shipping container on a South coast beach, Critchley’s sub aquatic film floods the space with a certain amniotic calm. What you see is a cross section of a small indoor pool. With the ease of a water baby, a bikini clad free diver spins and flips back and …
May 20, 2013
Links once again compiled for your edification and delight. Please read responsibly: I suppose the art story of the week was a Gerard Richter painting breaking records for a living artist. “I just love it . . . I just love art,†says buyer But if you’re in New York you may have been more …
May 20, 2013
To stand facing this piece by David Wightman is, at a certain time of the day, to stand facing the sun as it sets behind Brighton’s much photographed West Pier. Indeed, Wightman has given us a landscape every bit as sugary as the canvases for sale down on the sea front in what has been …
May 19, 2013
 This show may be just a hidden outpost of a relatively obscure art festival on the South Coast. But London policewoman Marta Zawistowska has reportedly been twice already. In many ways this show is for her, from the cases full of postcards, to the photos and videos, and the shredded clothes and motorbike leathers …
May 18, 2013
Some things don’t need to be said, unless you are one of the Chapman brothers being interviewed in advance of a rare public appearance: “No one’s going to get hurt. No one’s going to get injured. There’s no blood involved,“ says younger Chapman sibling Jake. “It’s not spectacularised. No one’s going to find themselves with …
May 14, 2013
Good afternoon/morning. It’s time for my weekly compilation of interesting links: First but not foremost, it’s been Frieze week in New York. Jason Farago captures the spirit of the event and bottles it for the Guardian Fans of Dante may not be thrilled about the arrival of a new Dan Brown book. The Telegraph publishes …
May 13, 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
Halfway between painting and photography, Stepnik’s photos show people halfway between their usual everyday life and then what might be called the disease of the future. The Polish artist has colonised their skin. Dayglo pixels creep around the countours of their faces. Hair is electrified with luminous colour. But these touches draw you in, rather …
May 8, 2013
It’s beach weather here in Brighton, but first aggregated art links for a Bank Holiday Weekend: How could a show with such a title be anything but great. Read about “Ain’t Painting a Pain?†by Richard Jackson at Orange County Museum of Art Billions and billions of stars are now available for viewing at Apexart …
May 5, 2013