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marathon retrograde
Come Olympic time next year, will London art addicts be gritting teeth and holding cynical breaths as the endurance race begins? Chancing upon the line-up for Tate Modern in the next 18 months, I see five months of Saatchi showmanship will be placed firmly in front of international Olympic visitors in the form of a… (read more)
seen this movie before?
I’m in a position to completely spoil a surprise here, so if you’re coming to IKON’s Eastside Gallery for the AVPD exhibition (until 14 Nov 2010), read no further. It’s an encounter that requires your presence and determination to go with the flow. For everyone else, pour yourself another cup of coffee or glass of… (read more)
design isn’t art, thankfully
“…It provides a means for understanding the contemporary world, and, potentially, for making it a better place.” You’d be mistaken if you thought this ambitious phrase was lifted from an exhibition programme at a contemporary art gallery, or an expensive brochure at a museum of modern art. It would be a good guess though. People… (read more)
appropriating art by any means necessary
Needing to know more about Cy Twombly – who he was and his creative influences – I discovered an “incident” that occurred in France to one of his paintings. A fan was so taken with Twombly’s triptych “Phaedrus” that she kissed one of the panels (the mark is more like a grope in the back… (read more)
meet the hole in the wall gang
It’s no wonder art galleries are going out of business during the credit crunch. I just hope artists are rigorous in their representation awareness to know that, possibly the reason they might be starving artists is because the profligate galleries are busy sleeping or drilling holes in the wall. This past week, on my most… (read more)