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Film is to artists, what books are to Paris Hilton: at one’s disposal, but hardly useful. Rarely is film a successful medium for artists, not because of film’s inherent limitations, but mostly from artists’ inability to produce a linear story in a time-based medium. Those that do attempt film or video demand that viewers leap… (read more)
Trecartin: Turgid Waters
Ryan Trecartin is a former art student from the Rhode Island School of Design, and makes videos that he claims are scripted. The results prove otherwise, as amateur actors appear in various forms of drag and costume, seemingly having a ball slinging phrases about that don’t pretend to make any sense. The direction is a… (read more)
Dickensian Moments
In Dickensian fashion, a tale of two cities is exposed in the realm of British art. For rough and tumble adventures, Liverpool serves up its own, street-wise biennial, lasting from September through November. Meanwhile down in the sumptuous south, London slips us four days of glossy eye-candy at Frieze Art Fair at Regent’s Park. While… (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)