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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
Throwing a party, like making art, is one of those activities we can attend to when all of our most basic needs have been satisfied. Food, shelter, art – that is surely the order. But if we are to suppose that ancient people ever let their hair down, who would decorate the cave? With a …
February 11, 2013
Does rock count as art? If so there can only be one major story this week. Here it is along with all the others: Said rock band My Bloody Valentine release first new album for 22 years and Pitchfork give it a rare 9.1 out of 10 Syliva Plath also made headlines this week. London …
February 6, 2013
Here’s criticismism’s weekly selection of art links, gathered for your enjoyment: A Belgian living in Mexico with a nice line in political interventions around the world: Modern Art Notes podcast scores an interview with Francis Alÿs Mark Brown from the Guardian takes a look at the new Kurt Schwitters retrospective at Tate Britain, another reappraisal …
January 29, 2013