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He might not know it yet, but the subject of The Hunted is right where Adrian Ghenie wants him. This baboon has been cornered on a coffee table. That’s the kind of place you would expect to find a book about art. And indeed this photolike monkey fades into a black outline on what could …
September 27, 2011
Once again, here are some of the more readable/watchable/listenable links from the past seven days: “Freud’s cranium is a snail”: listen to a short radio 4 programme about the meeting between the founder of psychoanalysis and Salvador DalÃ. Tom McCarthy, in the Guardian, provides some intelligent appetite whetting for the forthcoming Gerhard Richter show at …
September 24, 2011
As with any 21st century talent contest, the three judges in Casting Jesus are impatient, cutting and at times cynical. They praise as well, of course, but not always with great sincerity. But unlike the panels we know from primetime TV, these worldly starmakers are a Vatican priest, a Vatican newspaper art critic, and a …
September 20, 2011
Here are some of the best reads/watches/gapes from the last seven days: What do we really learn from a £440 million memorial to 9/11? asks Tiffany Jenkins in the Indpendent. A child’s eye view of Palestine gets banned from a Museum of Childrens Art in California. Read the story on Hyperallergic and do check the …
September 18, 2011
Today’s sad news has prompted me to share an artwork-related anecdote. At Richard Hamilton’s Serpentine show in 2010 the central piece was a stark, cell-like hospital room. Next to the sort of bed patients get strapped down to was a stainless steel sink and if memory serves a bucket. Behind a glass shield to one …
September 13, 2011
My abiding memory of September 11 is soul searching about the point of starting an MA in one of the bars at the University of Sussex. Not sure that we ever reached any conclusion: Jerry Saltz, however, was collecting missing person posters and you can read his confession of sorts on artnet. For all other …
September 11, 2011
On paper, this is a place to come face to face with your greatest fear: a labyrinth in whose depths you will find monuments.pertaining to four major religions. But the deity or beast you are most likely to meet will be dressed in your clothes and looking back at you from one of the many …
September 7, 2011
How was your week? Mine was all the better for finding these 10 links: Christopher Hawthorne in the LA Times reports on boom time for skyscrapers. To quote from movie Life Stinks: “Gentlemen, you’ll never know how much this project excites me.” And as we approach 9/11/2011, at least one bit of reportage now looks …
September 4, 2011
For artists who don’t perhaps make millions, Frieze art week may be a date to hate. But this year, two man team Karl England and Ben Street are presenting a bold alternative. The brand new Sluice Art Fair will be 15 minutes down the road. “We have had some hostile reactions when we invited people …
September 1, 2011
To those who say, I could have done that when faced with contemporary art, here is a project that you really could have done. The catalogue provides instructions. Mocksim’s show comprised some 200 photos of illegally parked cars. 1) check the parking ticket; 2) visit the Penalty Charging Notice website; 3) enter a code; and …
August 30, 2011