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Archive for October 2009
building an icon
Birmingham: England’s second largest city. It’s a colossal second to London in population, cultural energy, and decent pubs. The distance between the largest and second-largest, in population, is the equivalent of New York City and Austin, Texas. Birmingham, however, is ground zero for the industrial revolution, heavy metal music, and the Balti. The intrepidness of… (read more)
maybe someone will mistake me for a creative person
Forget about the art, the point of London’s annual Frieze Art Fair is to be an affected part of the art. It’s now my favourite thing about this typically posy British art fair – the living, breathing, accountants during the week, cool guys by weekend, semi-conscious sculptures milling around casually as cute art collectors. What… (read more)
are you going to the art do?
I have a new art theory: the big difference between 19th century art and that of the 20th century are the parties. It’s a tale of two Tates, in this instance, and ultimately it serves only to fortify the boundaries between centuries. We’re just better at entertaining ourselves today than we were in Victorian times…. (read more)