Archive for September 2010

Donald Judd IS Kitagawa

Just a few weeks back, the opportunity arose to attend two art house openings; same company, different locations. My town of Birmingham has a reluctant saviour for art in this part of the British Isles called the IKON gallery. For those not familiar, the IKON is to Birmingham, what spice is to Indian food. Fairly… (read more)

humour me just this once

In the Exhibit book for “Rude Britannia”, shown at Tate Britain earlier, the director of the Tate, Penelope Curtis, states matter-of-factly that “Understanding humour is never easy and understanding in a historical sense is especially difficult.”. Except, well, I don’t think it’s difficult at all, understanding humour, especially in “a” historical sense. In fact, history… (read more)

hypercomics: your move

Comic books are not everyone’s cup of tea, but nothing is “everyone’s” cup of tea. Except maybe tea. Everyone does, however, enjoy a witty comic story; if for no other reason than the text is much shorter than that of a novel. The comics creator, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, proves this point at a small show… (read more)