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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)
destroy creatively
Which would you rather have in your neighbourhood; a new Tesco, or a street full of newer, smaller, probably high-quality food (they’re new, so who knows) entrepreneurs popping up? On the one hand, Tesco gives you assurance and wide selection of safe goods, but the entrepreneurs potentially provide better quality, and make you feel socially… (read more)
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)
simian’s theorem of grasp
In order to further assist artists with their efforts in gaining a following and thus increasing their importance to the brotherhood of man, I thought to create a mathematical model that explicitly describes a winning formula. “Simian’s Theorem of Grasp” is a useful device for eliminating those individuals, who, in the end, don’t matter enough… (read more)
that’s ridickerous
Plowing through Adam Lindemann’s “Collecting Contemporary“, I ran across Martin Kippenberger, a German artist who died of liver cancer in 1997. He was 44. Hmmm, I wonder what his lifestyle was like? On the Saatchi Gallery site, his life’s work is said to be prolific, mostly because he claimed that anything could be art. As… (read more)