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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
Welcome back to the week you’ve just lived through, but this time with premium quality links: Saddest thing in the world: when an outlaw street artist is fully embraced by the mainstream. Cameron and Branson must really have it in for Ben Eine. This story is weird and a bit one sided. But it’s always …
January 21, 2013
Books come in all shapes and sizes, but perhaps the most potent format is both small and black. The collected quotes of Ai Weiwei should have come in nothing less. Editor Larry Warsh has trawled through some 74 interviews with the Chinese artist to bring readers in the West a meditation on his life and …
January 19, 2013
Top stories of the week include a portrait of a future queen and the new single by a former one. Read on… There was much derision heaped upon Kate Middleton’s first officical portrait. My favourite was this example by Mark Hudson in the Telegraph Bowie records an album in secret. But hold on, wasn’t this …
January 14, 2013
Well, here’s your regular pick of the best art links around: Art Observed report on a fine looking Sol LeWitt show at Marian Goodman gallery in Paris Contemporary Art Daily also have pictures from what seems like a cracking show: Judith Bernstein at the New Museum ArtInfo carry a short film about Russian art world …
January 7, 2013
A focussed set of Found Objects this week as it proves time to crank up the blog again after an extended holiday season. Good to be back. Brighton might be the UK piercing capital, but even we would look twice at these Thai festival goers. Check out the gallery by Guillaume Megevand on Beautiful Decay. …
January 2, 2013
Industrial House in Conway Street Hove looks just as workmanlike as its name would suggest. If I was a councillor presented with the chance to knock it down, I just might. But having been inside the office-like space, the industry seems to be altogether more interesting than, say, just the embroidery of sports logos. Inside …
December 19, 2012
Of the half a dozen mass market art paperbacks you might find in your local good book store, there may be at least two biographies of Michaelangelo Caravaggio. In addition to this, the latest, there may be another recent account by Peter Robb. That book, called M, emulates the passions of the painter’s life with …
December 16, 2012