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Joana Vasconcelos: hand crocheting and kinetic sculptures.
Joana Vasconcelos‘ exhibition in Haunch of Venison a couple of weeks ago, and I wasn’t planning to write about it because a) I’m busy...
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Aug 5, 20101 min read
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The skin of art spaces
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has exposed the art viscera inside the Hayward gallery, London. I won’t digress much talking about the...
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Jul 19, 20101 min read
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High culture art marketing in low culture spaces
Those of you in London some weeks ago may have noticed these adverts in the Southbank space were graffiti and skateboarding interrupt the...
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Jul 10, 20101 min read
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Sculpture + 2D
Madder139 gallery, and I was pleasantly intrigued by the Cervantian look of the man, but mostly attracted to the 2D image collaged over...
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Jun 8, 20101 min read
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Drawing Theatre
[singlepic id=189 w=320 h=240 float=left]My art practice is rusty, for a few more months. It’s on hold while I put energies into my art...
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Jun 6, 20101 min read
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Open Arts Cafe
Open Arts Cafe. From the link a friend sent me on fb, I expected it to be geared towards fine arts performance, but instead of being all...
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May 28, 20101 min read
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The Creative Compass
Strolling up to the Serpentine Gallery on a fine London morning I happened upon a wonderful little exhibition in the Royal Geographical...
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May 24, 20102 min read
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Breaking the surface
As a teenager I went to see a Minimalist art exhibition in Barcelona that ( I realised years later) was really influential. First, there...
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May 20, 20102 min read
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Singh Twins
China may be doubling the value of its art market every year, but the superpower is not sending as much Chinese art to this neck of the...
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May 5, 20102 min read
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Stuck on Childish
Due to my regrettably poor memory, I confused Billy Childish with Charles Thomson, ignorantly putting all stuckists in one mental box,...
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Apr 24, 20102 min read
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Kenji Yoshida
The October Gallery in Bloomsbury has just opened a small and lovely exhibition of Kenji Yoshida’s paintings. Below is my favourite:...
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Apr 17, 20103 min read
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Exit Banksy, enter Swoon
I finally saw Banksy‘s film Exit through the Giftshop, now on show in only one London cinema. Glad I made it to the big screen before it...
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Apr 16, 20102 min read
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Sutra and Antony Gormley
What I can’t quite work out is how a visual artist, Antony Gormley, designs the set for something like this. I can understand that a...
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Mar 18, 20102 min read
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Artbin
[singlepic id=35 w=320 h=240 float=left]But rules about taking photos are becoming stranger. During the Anish Kapoor exhibition, the...
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Mar 13, 20103 min read
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Femme daze
Late last year, I read a very funny article by Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, pointing out –in case you hadn’t heard because feminism is so...
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Mar 5, 20102 min read
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Oscar Wilde
[singlepic id=27 w=320 h=240 float=left]Had today been a leap year, it would still be February, LGBT month. Throughout the month,...
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Mar 1, 20101 min read
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How to make art with toxic waste: Richard Wilson’s 20:50
here. The first time round, I saw it first in 1993, this artwork blew my young mind. The disused factory in St John’s Wood, as I recall...
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Feb 26, 20102 min read
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Collective cyanotyping
Zoë Burt is exhibiting the fascinating results of her residence at the Brockwell Lido last summer, now on show at 198@45 gallery, in...
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Feb 21, 20101 min read
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Photographing Travellers: Eva Sajovic
Until the 20th March, 198 gallery is presenting an exhibition that is supported by so many workshops and seminars, that the whole show...
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Feb 14, 20101 min read
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THE MADWOMAN, a poem by Hoang Hung
THE MADWOMAN Carrying a broken stick on her head she walks and sings Evening comes gradually at the end of the street She walks and...
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Jan 25, 20161 min read
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Saigon’s artworld – sketches in ‘Masque & Spectacle’
The July 2015 issue of literary and arts journal Masque and Spectacle is devoted to Vietnam, and features a few of my sketches done...
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Jun 6, 20151 min read
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