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Great links this week. Please tuck in: I’m still not entirely sure what SOPA is, but I vehemently oppose it. Even if it has thrown up this ace Jonathan Jones rant on Wikipedia As Prime Minister David Cameron calls for more commercial British films, comedian Stuart Lee offers a commercial response (via @NickMotown) Third and …
January 23, 2012
Say that two individuals began, at the same moment in time, to sit down with a pen and ream of paper. They will copy out the bible word for word. One of the pair may have been Daniel Rapley, graduate of an art MA at Chelsea. His work is soon displayed on a plinth and …
January 18, 2012
Regular users of this internet thing will be pleased to know this week’s Found Objects are a spot free zone: Instead we have this awe inspiring NY Times story about geoglyphs in the Amazon News that Picasso and Warhol have been knocked off the top of the bestseller charts by Chinese artists A delve into …
January 16, 2012
Liliane Lijn is such a hands-on artist that, within two minutes of arriving at her North London studio, my own pair were enlisted to help lift a Poem Machine from the floor onto a well-worn work surface. There was an issue with this kinetic, text-bearing sculpture. It creaked as it rotated, so Lijn and a …
January 10, 2012
With a major death, a minor spat and completely mad bit of art crit in Denver, the year has got off to an eventful start. Please enjoy any or all of the links below: Ronald Searle gets called “perhaps the greatest British graphic artist of the last 100 years” in this compelling obituary from the …
January 8, 2012
The ideal place to relate this piece of art might be in a pub. You could try a dinner party, but you may not get the requisite howls of disbelief. “There’s this German artist, see, who wants to fly to the moon. No she’s not in a space training programme. She’s going to let herself …
January 5, 2012
A rather sheepish selection of five post-celebratory links this week. Thanks for reading in 2011 and rest assured I’ll be back on it later in the week: Somewhere between art history and art criticism, this is a heavyweight consideration of either version of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks. Elucidating (via @tds153). Good news if you’ve …
January 2, 2012
Investigations have taken place as to the feasibility of projecting a single word onto the surface of the moon. But Liliane Lijn is still waiting for a technical solution. In the meantime, we can make do with a simulation. And the word which appears on the virtual moon, both online and at FACT Liverpool, is …
December 21, 2011
Most favourite links from the past week, with a passing reference to xmas: Take in a whole book on deregulated capitalism at a glance with this wall chart by William Powhida. Better still, zoom in and scroll around. The Guardian interview the soi-disant Ikea anarchists, underemployed grads with time on their hands and photoshop on …
December 19, 2011
Coasting in the general celebratory mood of this time of year, it seemed harmless enough to pick out a few personal highlights for readers of this blog. Gallery of the year: Grey Area, Brighton Although I should disclose I’ve enjoyed a night out or two with the folk at this local venue, you would be …
December 14, 2011