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washed-up artist finds new medium: walls
Some art galleries are better designed than others. Indeed some are so well designed, they’re more appealing than the art presented inside. Take the London’s Saatchi Gallery. When it first opened, I wasn’t impressed much with the random pieces that Charles Saatchi called art, but the building’s flooring was visually and vastly impressive. In fact,… (read more)
give us back the russians
Attention all aliens from extragalactic nebula outside Earth’s Solar System (third planet from our sun, in the Galaxy called the Milky Way). Consider this a human plea for what was at one time, righteously ours, and to many people, fondly remembered. We would like to have our Russians back please. The ones that were on… (read more)
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)
mining for understanding
Leave it to another art form, this time the theatre, to pierce through the fog of contemporary painting. Art can’t seem to do that on its own. It must be the only thing in the world that can’t (not counting Marmite, which, for the good of mankind, should remain mysterious). Lee Hall’s “The Pitmen Painters”… (read more)
help wanted: indolence necessary
Want a job? I know, you’d think in these desperate times what job could possibly be so readily available. Unemployment stretching toward 10% in the US, skyrocketing toward 8% in the UK, and probably just as bleak on the European continent, how could such an unforeseen opportunity exist? What, the fleeing Third Worldians from Calais… (read more)
art for one
Attention all artists: stop the inconsequential discussion with yourselves in the secluded and singular vacuum World Of One. The reason nobody understands what you’re doing is very simple to explain: your work doesn’t mean anything to anyone but you. This is not public art. It’s not even contextual art. It’s Art for One. I hope… (read more)
a world of one’s own
Something that Jeffrey Deitch said in the book, Collecting Contemporary (by Adam Lindemann) I thought was a very useful idea for understanding contemporary art. Deitch is one of New York’s art dealers, with a background in finance as well as art. Although he doesn’t come out and say it, his perspective is one where art… (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)