art blog since 2009
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
Some links from the last seven days. The internet has been busy again: Once you start building a bunker, it hardly ever ends well. As Gaddafi hunkers down in Tripoli (presumably), Jonathan Glancey looks at his architecture. Does art change nothing? This galvanising piece on The Daily Serving finds street art in the thick of …
August 27, 2011
A film in the back room tells the story of Sein, who seems to be in perpetual flight around the city of Cairo. In piecing together her story, the artist may also be piecing together ours. Like Sein, we find ourselves lost in the city or at least the shop at 87 Sandgate Road, in …
August 23, 2011
Allow me to pilfer some more of your time for this week’s selection of links. Theft has emerged as a bit of a theme: Der Spiegel carries an interesting long read about a time when tourism and archaeology went hand in hand. Berlin’s famous bust of Nefertiti is just one item Egypt wants back. Then …
August 19, 2011
By elevating the point of view and catching performer May Milton as she surges past, Toulouse-Lautrec captures the unsteady excitement of a late night at the Moulin Rouge. And unlike the paparazzi shots which litter today’s gossip pages, looking at this work leads to a feeling of inclusion. Perhaps that’s also thanks to the intoxicating …
August 17, 2011
After an unplanned hiatus, this blog returns with another selection of links: items from the last seven days in descending order of topicality… Nevermind the stock cupboards of Footlocker, etc. Lucy Inglis in the Guardian laments the Victorian architecture which suffered at the hands of rioters in Tottenham. Tattooist Louis Molloy is another victim of …
August 12, 2011
Posting early links this week, due to weekend commitments. So, erm, click while you’re ahead: Lucian Freud appears not to have liked social conventions, but I hope he would not mind the odd tribute or two. Martyn Gayford’s close, measured and warm recollections in the Telegraph are well worth a read. An Xiao’s piece in …
July 23, 2011
At about 12.30 last night a widely-published cartoonist had his email and password broadcast on Twitter. Mark Wood’s only connection to #hackgate is that he has also worked for The Sun. If his characters are anything to go by, Wood is a likeable sort. His client list suggests he’s hard-working. And indeed a web listing …
July 19, 2011