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A few of the least missable art links from the web this week. Peruse at will: Here’s the most surprising thing written about art this week: Charles Saatchi on the vulgarity of the art world. As if to make a similar point Miru Kim shacks up with two pigs for the duration of Art Basel …
December 4, 2011
An inscription reads Silentium and it is almost tempted to leave this post right there and allow these snapshots to speak for themselves. They are not a sight for chatter. But I wanted to share the impression made on me by these tombs in the Austrian capital. It was like encountering a fleet of dark …
November 30, 2011
Welcome back to another round of art links from an exciting week on the Internet: From the department of unexpected events, here’s news that the EU is planning to undertake its biggest ever funding drive for art and culture. And here’s some more news that goes against the grain. Scientists have massively slowed up the …
November 28, 2011
With its dark, stained and somewhat splayed feet this stool looks solid enough. But it was still not clear that sitting there was permitted. It was, after all, part of an exhibition. It had its own plaque on the wall and, indeed, I was reading the very details relating to this piece, when I turned …
November 24, 2011
What might it be about a subterranean art commission which makes the imagination soar? Michael Landy, Jeremy Deller and Eva Rothschild are among the well-known contemporary artists to have taken their talents underground in recent times. It’s a gallery space you probably know, and chances are you have travelled on it. Art on the Underground …
November 24, 2011
Vienna was fun, but more on that later. Here are some links I’ve been catching up with: Check this photo on Hyperallergic and I’m sure you’ll agree, this woman really looks like a public menace. No wonder the cop is using pepper spray. I may be late to this, but if police can use said …
November 22, 2011
Internet: scoured, or at least partially. Hope you enjoy this week’s art-related links: The world’s most expensive photograph reached £2.7 million at Christies. The Guardian seemed surprised it wasn’t a classic Kodak moment. Meanwhile the world’s most expensive exhibition (surely) has already sold out its run at The National Gallery. The Independent offers a guide …
November 14, 2011
He may be one of the fifteenth century’s best known scientists and empiricists, but Leonardo has become synymous with mystery and obscurantism. The smoke which blurs the features of his most famous painting, also coils around the edges of these burnt-brown anatomy drawings and the plans he made elsewhere for real world inventions. So today …
November 11, 2011
Once again I’ve whittled down the infinite reaches of the world wide web into ten or so convenient destinations just for you: Not entirely art related but this does feature some highly creative metaphors: John Lichfield writes about the Eurozone crisis in the Independent (via @tds153) Also in the Independent, gallerist Richard Cork tells us …
November 7, 2011
Why it should be pleasant to imagine aliens are invading planet earth is not clear. But the only clear result of a recent hoax broadcast from BBC Radio Merseyside was listening enjoyment. The Halloween transmission may have confused a few people, but it was nothing like the famous Orson Welles stunt of 1938. There are …
November 4, 2011