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My weekly round up of links is back. Sorry if you missed it last week. Ai Weiwei risks everything to give an interview to the FT. Prepare for some vicarious paranoia. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal visits Tracey Emin. A nice portrait, but you cannot help comparing artist-governmental relations with Ai (via Art Observed). David …
February 27, 2012
In all the guidebooks available to Berlin, you are unlikely to find one which recommends making audio recordings of your journeys on the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn. But that is the method used by Fedora Romita to orientate herself in a new city. And this results in one CD for each of the five lines …
February 22, 2012
If you can taste these words or see them in colour, you already know about the condition known as synaesthesia which affects 1 in 20 people worldwide. If you can’t, chances are you might like the sound of that, especially if you are an artist. “There are a lot of wannabe synaesthetes, including myself, out …
February 19, 2012
A skull in a three dimension grid speaks of death and eternal life. This one belongs to a fox, at an end in physical terms, but which enjoys an afterlife of sorts in a gallery. The virtual scaffold which surrounds and appears to support the skull is the product of delicate handiwork. It is cropped …
February 17, 2012
Not an especially romantic edition of Found Objects this week, but hey ho: It was sad to hear that Barcelona painter Antoni TÃ pies has passed away. Check out this obituary and slideshow in the Guardian. Here’s a Tate Shots video dispatch from the Yayoi Kusama PV at Tate. Always good to hear a former rock …
February 14, 2012
If we accept the hypothesis that Africa was the cradle of the human race, it follows that black music predates the invention of the archive. Yet one of the most compelling aspects of the show at Peckham space is the newness of the exhibits: a Fugees t-shirt, a Cookie Crew album, an Amy Winehouse doll. …
February 11, 2012
As if to save those analysts the bother, Yayoi Kusama has already labelled Aggregation as part of her Sex Obsession series. She describes the white growths as so many phalluses. So you might see her boat as a metaphor for the conscious mind, floating above unconscious depths. Except here, the mind has been overrun by …
February 8, 2012
Sorry for lack of recent posting, especially during such an eventful week. Here’s catching up: Saddest art story of the week was the death of Mike Kelley. Art Info posted a three minute video interview with the LA-based artist (thanks @markscottwood). Also from Art Info is this quick guide to the Qatar royal family, who …
February 6, 2012
Ten links from around the virtual week in art: Artnet has the latest on the Prince vs Cariou case regarding copyright and image appropriation. You get to read the people specs for an A-list opening at Gagosian. A paranoid genius has managed to uncover at least two partial words spelled out by Hirst’s spot paintings. …
January 30, 2012
This semaphore frieze will stop you in your tracks at the Serpentine. Lygia Pape calls her epic a (the) Book of Time. Well, it both is and it isn’t. Yes, it has 365 elements which might be called pages. They are made from wood, which is related to paper. And they have a colourful grammar …
January 25, 2012