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This weekend, I was on assignment in Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013. I’ll write about the gallery going elsewhere, and for the time being post a few photos of politically charged street art. Above is a mural on the wall of the Museum of Free Derry. Behind the subject and the illustrated bullet holes …
March 25, 2013
Salutations. This week’s art links are the usual mix between the topical and the wondrous. Topical: Here’s a sad story about the death of young Dominic Elliott, friend and assistant to David Hockney. The Independent reports. Also topical: the Guardian send music critic Alexis Petridis to review the record-breaking Bowie show at the V&A. Highly …
March 18, 2013
Given the vast technological resources made available to those who wish to explore outer space, an analogue vinyl album seems like a less than adequate way to respond to the cosmos. But in fact Yird Muin Starn is comprehensive in its dealings with such matters as star constellations, the Apollo missions, lunar cycles, the Pioneer …
March 15, 2013
It’s a freedom of speech issue. If you are a global corporation like IKEA you can afford to take out a full page in a national broadsheet. If you are a little known artist you can barely afford to reply. What IKEA tells us some 200,000 times at a go is that Harry’s passion now …
March 13, 2013
Greetings from snow-gripped Brighton. Here’s my weekly selection of links better not missed: Firstly, everyone must see this Fox News report as discovered by Art Fag City: George W. Bush as an emerging artist Still Stateside, I enjoyed at least two reports about the Armory show in New York, both from Art Info: the first …
March 11, 2013
Left-leaning liberals from middle class homes should hate the discourse which runs through Final Machine by Amanda Beech. Instead it could give them a masochistic thrill. The action runs fast, the soundtrack faster. This is punctuated by gunshots, not always easy or even possible to follow the arguments. But you catch enough to get the …
March 7, 2013
Here are the week’s most interesting art links as chosen entirely subjectively: After finding horsemeat in ready meals, one wonders which artworks might be contaminated. Fortunately The L-Magazine has checked the situation out. Well, this looks entirely brilliant, perhaps inadvertently so: a breathing statue of Lenin has gone on show in Moscow. New York Times …
March 4, 2013
Everyone loves a good car crash in the art world where no one really gets hurt. Last year we thrilled to the saga of Beast Jesus. The previous year this statue of Pope John Paul II became infamous. Critics said it looked like Mussolini. The artist reworked it to produce the version you see here. …
February 27, 2013
Unlike a piece of writing or a piece of art, it is easy enough to get started with a game of chess. The game of kings offers a limited number of openings. You might never use more than a couple. For this reason, and several others, most creative people should envy Marcel Duchamp. He turned …
February 26, 2013
Sorry for lack of postings of late. I’ve been on a short break in Rome. Keen observers will find this reflected in my first two chosen links of the week: In any other country he would surely be unelectable. Not so in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy, from where Der Spiegel recalls the following gaffes. As luck …
February 25, 2013