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thomas struth@whitechapel art gallery

big photos of kinda interesting stuff like people looking at pictures in galleries. At the opening some protestors had put some foul smelling shit in the govt collections section, which was novel, wonder what they are pissed off at, certainly not struth. These deadpan c types or whatever have become...
by art reviews
Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:10 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: thomas struth@whitechapel art gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 14032

Vyner Street the new Cork Street

V Street has become even worse than C street. Crap galleries with shitty shows with pricelists and names like newExhibit or Britarse and exhibitions of the erotic or street art whatever, it has crashed faster than the greek economy, and poor old anthony wilkinson has his white elephant stuck on Naff...
by art reviews
Sat Jul 02, 2011 4:00 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Vyner Street the new Cork Street
Replies: 0
Views: 12224

Re: Shoreditch Gallery Roundup

thanks for the advice CAP, you're right quality is in short supply partly by definition but where is it in contemporary painting?
by art reviews
Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:29 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Shoreditch Gallery Roundup
Replies: 7
Views: 28255

Re: Big Society

nice to see a new reviewer on wwr
by art reviews
Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:27 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Big Society
Replies: 2
Views: 17381

Alice NEel @victoriamiro gallery

Neel is not bad, gets a distinct likness, a look and a time captured in paint. There is some joy in the scruffy surfaces. But they are not super extraordinary and if you saw a couple in a market, you wouldnt part with 500 quid for one. They are exceptional because we see part of the figurative tradi...
by art reviews
Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:16 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Alice NEel @victoriamiro gallery
Replies: 0
Views: 12238

Re: The Venice Biennale

worldwidereview scooped cathedral of shit!

http://cathedralofshit.wordpress.com/20 ... ew-nairne/
by art reviews
Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:38 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: The Venice Biennale
Replies: 2
Views: 18257

The Venice Biennale

by art reviews
Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:02 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: The Venice Biennale
Replies: 2
Views: 18257

west end gallery round up, sadie coles, haunch, white cube

Sadie coles has best ever artist in the world Spartacus Chetwynd, a multiplayer journey through cringey performance circa 1970. It's the clever posh gallery subeverting itself for the millionth time. Haunch of Venison has expensive Matthew Day Jackson, guys in open necked shirts and tailored jackets...
by art reviews
Thu May 26, 2011 6:20 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: west end gallery round up, sadie coles, haunch, white cube
Replies: 0
Views: 12177

Peter Kennard @ Raven Row Gallery London

http://www.ravenrow.org/ Kennard at the off is uninspriring, makes you think ah photo montage John Heartfield circa 1932... But then hey how many political shows do you see and the guys pasted his posters on to the fancy walls round jutting out bits. And the back window of the gallery is open, and ...
by art reviews
Sat May 21, 2011 5:15 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Peter Kennard @ Raven Row Gallery London
Replies: 0
Views: 12435

A sort of Night to the mind @ Arch 402 gallery

Contemporary painting. Uninspiring phrase. Usually a jumble of styles, paintings of images of abstract and figurative painting of the 20th century mashed up with a twist. E.G. Mondrian but in camouflage, or late Picasso but without the dying energy. Stuck in a fun house of images, the contemporary p...
by art reviews
Sun May 15, 2011 2:40 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: A sort of Night to the mind @ Arch 402 gallery
Replies: 0
Views: 12299

turner prize shortlist 2011

GEORGE SHAW: midlandish royal college realist, dab hand with enamels, his drab landscapes have a certain spirit of the overlooked. the turner prize is at the baltic, the judge is from the baltic, and shaw has a show at the baltic on now. coincidence? KARLA BLACK: stockholder of our time,junk artfull...
by art reviews
Sat May 07, 2011 11:04 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: turner prize shortlist 2011
Replies: 1
Views: 13991

Shoreditch Gallery Roundup

People ask why are these reviews so aggressive and negative. I guess it's just I walk into a gallery and the art is really depressing. I know the artists are trying, I know the galleries put a lot of effort in (sometimes). But if we don't say how we feel about art then what's the point. I want to se...
by art reviews
Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:52 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Shoreditch Gallery Roundup
Replies: 7
Views: 28255

Re: Martin Amis on Christopher Hitchens

they're both amises
by art reviews
Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:38 pm
 
Forum: Books
Topic: Martin Amis on Christopher Hitchens
Replies: 2
Views: 9929

nerd art Savage Messiah @ 1 Sutton Lane Gallery

Below is the blurb quoted in full. There were a few good things in the show. The rest is middle aged people in fashionably unfashionable 80s clothes, standing around with their backs to a bunch of stuff in a case, all connected round some pretentious premise. Sort of as cool as can be, and as dull a...
by art reviews
Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:35 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: nerd art Savage Messiah @ 1 Sutton Lane Gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 13981

Paul Graham @ The Whitechapel Gallery London

"Arrestingly beautiful, Graham’s photographs transform the banality of a social security office or a suburban lawn into compelling scenes. Yet for all the immediacy of his saturated colours and large formats, these pictures are also about what cannot be seen. ‘I realised that concealment…"...
by art reviews
Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:39 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Paul Graham @ The Whitechapel Gallery London
Replies: 0
Views: 12486

Morgan Fisher: Films and Paintings @ Raven Row

http://www.ravenrow.org/current/ Nice space. You just feel isnt this boring. I mean the problem with contemporary art is that the nerds took over. Before now you had Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, Emin, Damien Hirst. Now you have people doing stuff about how wide film is and why and going on about it li...
by art reviews
Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:16 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Morgan Fisher: Films and Paintings @ Raven Row
Replies: 1
Views: 14014

BP Portrait Award 2011 National Portrait Gallery

Polluting slick of oilpaint. No need to seem them in real life if you've ever seen a BP before. The pre-rif-raff one is acutely exceptionally bad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/13/bp-portrait-award-2011
by art reviews
Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:55 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: BP Portrait Award 2011 National Portrait Gallery
Replies: 4
Views: 22469

Anselm Kiefer @ White Cube Gallery London England

WC and AK have been crap recently, one crassly emptily commercial and not even sexy, the other overblown used up samo, exchange epithets as you will. But lo and behold let there be light. Or as in the cube, turn the lights off, and let the painting glow through the murk of spring daylight filtered t...
by art reviews
Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Anselm Kiefer @ White Cube Gallery London England
Replies: 1
Views: 13848

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark Babican

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s 3 March 2011 - 22 May 2011 Barbican Art Gallery http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=11398 Matta-Clark made a great piece of art when he cut in half a house because it was like sculp...
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Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:08 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark Babican
Replies: 3
Views: 17666

Leo Steinberg dead

by art reviews
Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:13 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Leo Steinberg dead
Replies: 1
Views: 13882

Terence Koh

by art reviews
Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:29 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Terence Koh
Replies: 1
Views: 13984

British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery London England

http://www.britishartshow.co.uk/ This is very popular with the chattering classes, Christian Marclay is aaaa mazing and there's naked guy who sits on a bench next to a fire. Marclays synched up film clips are as fascinating as those 100 greatest film programs on channel 4, you cant stop watching, a...
by art reviews
Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:16 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery London England
Replies: 2
Views: 16353

Re: Andrew Graham Dixon.com

"Born in London in 1960, Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world."

:lol:
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Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:13 pm
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: Andrew Graham Dixon.com
Replies: 7
Views: 22098

Phillip King @ flowers east gallery london

A survey through 50 years. Every show at flowers is guaranteed mediocre. There was one nice scupture at the front. What's wrong with art that's not great? That is well made, thoughtful blah blah blah. I'd rather see a student mess than an RA's nice stuff. http://www.flowersgalleries.com/exhibitions/...
by art reviews
Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:06 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Phillip King @ flowers east gallery london
Replies: 0
Views: 11767

Re: Art mags.

Art MAgs are shit and nigh on unreadable. Best general clever mags are New Yorker and New York Review of books. You will learn more and get more pleasure with either... and no neither are about New York primarily.
by art reviews
Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:32 am
 
Forum: Random Stuff
Topic: Art mags.
Replies: 2
Views: 11072

Cory Arcangel @ The Barbican Curve Gallery London

Ho hum. Ho hum. Hum drum. Computer Game bowling over the years large scale filling the alley like curve gallery. That's it. Really, only mildly interesting. At best. Art. Help?
by art reviews
Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:08 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Cory Arcangel @ The Barbican Curve Gallery London
Replies: 0
Views: 11563

Sean Scully

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video ... tist-video

Love the headline: there are no certainties in my art..

Uh, except they'll be stripes and dull. What if he painted a Zebra?
by art reviews
Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:47 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Sean Scully
Replies: 3
Views: 18377

John Stezaker at the whitechapel gallery

The stez's career is schizo. He's gone from being well loved moustached royal college tutor in humanities to wildly sucessful international superstar artist. Huh? Hope for all us losers, I guess. I remembered feeling slightly bored by his collages, but thought I should take another look now he has b...
by art reviews
Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:27 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: John Stezaker at the whitechapel gallery
Replies: 3
Views: 18626

Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy London

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/modernbritishsculpture/ Good title. Weird how Jeff Koons and Urs Fischer et al are in this British Scultpure show. Guess it's some kind of clever shit. Sculpture is something you trip over, ha ha, the best thing here is Damien Hirst Barbecue maggoty fly vit...
by art reviews
Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:36 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy London
Replies: 0
Views: 11763

Sculpture

http://www.re-title.com/public/newsletters/29_Jan_11_-_re-title.com_Artist_Focus_Sculpture_0.htm This is pretty accurate, like every art student in the country has a book on Jessica Stockholder (what happened to her anyway) so you put a pantone colour sample next to a bit of MDF next to a shower cur...
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Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:10 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Sculpture
Replies: 0
Views: 11880

Richard Phillips: Most Wanted at WHite cube Hoxton Sqaure

http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/rp%202011/ Continuing the abominable series of exhibits at London's flagship gallery. Phillips paints some celebs in familiar blow up photo style with logos stencilled on the wall. What a comment on celebrity and consumerism. Entirely, utterly, ridiculously, unbe...
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:05 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Richard Phillips: Most Wanted at WHite cube Hoxton Sqaure
Replies: 0
Views: 13469

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