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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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May 15, 20100 min read
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Lost Art: G8 Protest as Art
A small screen on the wall at eye level, on the top floor, next to a window facing the street and the park opposite the gallery. This is...
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May 6, 20101 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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Eco art
Currently, Madrid’s Casa de America presents a group exhibition of Spanish and Latin American artists, ‘Mientras sea posible’. The brief...
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Apr 13, 20103 min read
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Body image terrorism
[singlepic id=54 w=320 h=240 float=left]MUA, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, has 4 wonderful spaces (usually showing contemporary...
cnualart
Apr 9, 20102 min read
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Creative Economy
I have recently come across this excellent article on art and business in Arts Professional which explains why artists need to look at...
cnualart
Apr 2, 20101 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...
cnualart
Mar 18, 20102 min read
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Logorama
After many industry efforts to ban it from the internet, I finally got to see it:  Logorama, the film. Oil as the end of capitalism… It...
cnualart
Mar 15, 20101 min read
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Lost Art: Wall-to-wall photograms, possibly Chinese
Imagine covering the back wall of your lounge with photographic paper (in darkeness), and then opening the curtains to expose the paper....
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Mar 15, 20101 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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Banksy / Exit through the Gift Shop
I was one of the 300.000 people that, last summer, went to the west of England, to queue for 4 and a half hours (which was the average...
cnualart
Mar 4, 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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Laydeez do Comics
This is a networking event, as well as an educational session, so I met lots of cool people.The girl drawing in the photo is Catari, an...
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Feb 24, 20101 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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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...
cnualart
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...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20151 min read
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