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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
These links are from the past seven days. Feel free to enjoy as many as you like: Jonathan Jones uses his Guardian column to link departing CEO of News International Rebekah Brooks to both the Damsel of the Holy Grail and Mick Jagger. Legal news: a monkey takes a photo in the wild and back …
July 17, 2011
Don’t expect to find this in Duty-Free over the summer. Artist Jammie Nicholas has made a perfume from his own urine, faeces, sweat, hair and God knows what else. He is not the first artist to offer the public his own shit, but he may be the first to go to such lengths to make …
July 15, 2011
Given a world prison population of some 10m, this short-lived exhibition in Toronto (too distant for me to see in person) might well have deserved a tour, or at least a run that outlasted a conference. The winning entry in their 2011 competition shows a powerful contrast between the finitude of captivity and the infinite …
July 12, 2011