art blog since 2009
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, until January 17 2010 “The cynic,” Oscar Wilde once said, “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” In which case, London Art Fair risks making cynics of us all. 136 galleries and dealers have set out their stalls at the Business Design Centre in Islington …
January 15, 2010
Nothing to do with art, just a vaguely entertaining seasonal story. Santa swaps sleigh for steam trains all across the UK. Read more.
December 4, 2009
Published on Culture24 David Blandy – Fortress of Solitude, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, until Summer 2010 Strap on the artificial guitar and fire up the games console and you are ready to enter David Blandy’s world. It is indeed, as he demonstrates, a stage. We find our truth in the roles we play. Guitar …
November 26, 2009
Published on Culture24 The Sacred Made Real at The National Gallery, London, until January 2010 As you would expect from a pallid corpse in a darkened room, Dead Christ draws quite a crowd. Gregorio Fernández’s wooden bier is surrounded by a dozen curious visitors. If this was a roadside, they would be driving past slowly, …
November 25, 2009
Just Jack played at Concorde 2 and I went along for News of the World. Here’s the result.
November 16, 2009
Here’s a piece I wrote about Keats heritage sites for Culture24, all aimed to tie in with a certain movie.
November 15, 2009
My personal pick of this decade’s albums is available to peruse at Scrawls and Bawls, which also carries loads of good interviews and reviews. If you like music, check it out.
November 10, 2009
Laura Marling played a support set at Concorde2 in Brighton last week. It was good, but not as good as headline act Daniel Johnston. Anyway, my review for News of the World can be found here. Scroll down.
November 8, 2009
Published on Culture24 The £61m redevelopment at the Ashmolean Museum has made headlines this week, but another money-related story of no less interest can be found at the new building in Oxford. The museum is also home to a raft of coins ranking among the ten most important monetary collections in the world, containing 300,000 …
November 5, 2009
Written for Culture24 Exhibition: Keith Tyson – Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems, Parasol Unit, London, until November 11 2009 It goes something like this: n pigeons/a non-graceful tree of 2n generations where each gen has r vertices and then has r+1 edges and r and n are random integers within the limits (0<n>5) (1<r>9). …
October 30, 2009