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http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibition/luc-tuymans-allo-2/ Surprise! I really liked this show having found toyman boring since i had him shoved down my oesophagus as a student. The images, found, distanced, screens, yawn are no great shakes, but the scrubby paintwork brings them alive in pleasing w...

These guys are two of the best painters of the modern generation. London trained and feted, they decided to move to Trinidad. A bold move to get away from the madding crowd and sycophantic chatter I'd imagine. I was interested to see whether the relocation has helped them paint better, with more fre...

not sure. I use my twitter and fb to promote it. Do you think we should have our own facebook page and twitter?

yeh they look pretty dreadful but have a certain kitschy fascination

http://www.pacegallery.com/london/exhibitions/11142/rothko-sugimoto-dark-paintings-and-seascapes I loved this show. First it seemed facile, all horizon lines, then magical. The eye messing photos and the full and empty paintings. Visual delight how Rothko holds you to a painting of so little. The f...

http://www.hughlane.ie/history-of-studio-relocation Ironically they have taken Bacon's kensington studio and meticulously rebuilt the mess in Dublin City Art Gallery. It is a beautiful and sad sight. The brushes, old winsor and newton paint, and empty boxes of Krug champagne. Fascinating like the a...

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excellent blog, great images for the east londoner

not too harsh, I have got an oyster card

SCULTPURE, big stuff like HENRY MOORE. It's exciting to large things made of wood, bronze plaster. They do look like art. They lack much movement in space. There is a great moment in Houseago where a 3D foot turns into a drawing of a foot. That will do me. Perhaps it all looks like it's been scaled ...

the other aspect of this show, which I cant help joining up to prices and non-openings, is the location, about as fancy as possible, just by the US embassy in Mayfair, you buzz in and walk up some carpeted stairs and some snooty gallery assts ignore you. It says, like not having an opening: YOURE NO...

http://www.michaelwerner.com/exhibition_current_5_press.htm http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/80009a78-fd9a-11e1-8fc3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz27whjZTrZ I wanted to go the opening of this show, but there wasn't one, it was an openingless opening, the show just started and you could go along and see it if you ...

this should go in the press release category!

actually read some! Though do all kind of have the same wistful, remembrance of things past tone.

I dont really get this. They look all right. Is that all right? http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/magnus_plessen_riding_the_image_masons_yard_2012/ "During the process of making the work, Plessen often physically turns the canvas 90 or 180 degrees as a means of re-positioning or confounding a re...

Much praised and it was ok. Didnt really have much drama or politics to it, as it had been sold.

Why does the Tate Modern put me in such a bad mood? Perhaps because out of 7 floors only 3 of them have art hanging on the walls, and even on those floors vast amounts of wall space are used for signage, information, general corridors, and cafes and shops. That's right 7 floors http://www.tate.org.u...

Hey CAP i like artists who try different things, don't be so hard on her!

no longer £5. Sadly the stalwart lunch of the hungry lone diner has now increased to £7.20. Pork and duck on rice (the meat must be served cold on the hot rice, with tea, and free chilli sauce on the side. So so good if the bbq pork is tender, the duck soft on its bones. But now they have added a se...

Malkovich is compelling with his weird SA accent. This is a feel bad movie, dead dogs, rape, disgrace. Who the hell wanted to make this into a movie, they're meant to be fun.

I bumped into a friend so maybe didnt give this show my full attention. Bronze. It's all stuff made of bronze. The best is first, some greek greened up bronze of a figure which has real life to it and maybe because it's broken seems to exploit space in a way like nothing else in the show, flying or ...

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1594/rita-ackermann-fire-by-days/view/ Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this show. I thought it was some old dudess from the 1950s but she was born in 68. The paintings are crusty and big and look like pinocchio and a figure at the same time. I found it hard to w...

this is good. a bit downbeat but dizzyingly dismaying as we see the complexities of class, gender, etc separating people in iran. the judge bits seem straight out of kafka, occasionally a bit like a tv movie.

had always thought a bit dull, but actually great storytelling writer

terrible genre mashup. jerry maguire meets some gambling movie. fascinating queasy uneasy tone. pacino not very good.

it took me a while to realise i was watching the same day, but guess thats cos i am stupid. i love this sort of shit, ann hathaway was good, though the source of their friendship and the twist were a bit blocked it.

never eard of it, but will look for it now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_4/

this is good, absurd stiff up her lip type stuff with strong work from cumberbund and the red haired temptress. AH tv is great. the war bits are somewhat dull.

They say this is going to be a campus novel on the cover, it's something stranger,NOT david lodge, it didnt quite work for me, the profundity and whimsy was not quite on the money. But there are good moments. I found the long paragraphs sent me to sleep.

http://www.halesgallery.com/exhibitions/ I really enjoyed this show by Dant. He has drawn imaginary books with whimsical depictions of cities. It's easier to see than explain. He draws like a very precocious and imaginative child who has lost no sense of wonder and what lines can make. (oh and decl...

you go all the way to e.finchley to find an excellent turkish restaurant. who'd have thought it. why cant every burb have a place like this? It's about attention to detail. A fresh broad bean salad with herbs and red pepper tastes like what you'd eat in the home of a good cook. Everything from the g...

actually pretty good despite my initial reservations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qfl/The_Shock_of_the_New_Mechanical_Paradise/

RIP RH. This is less good than I thought it might be, though the hair and the brown suits with the wide ties are indelible. I prefer celebrity masterchef for entz though.

never been that into murakami, perfectly readable but somehow too selfconsciously kooky for me. this is a kinda boring but also readable memoir about his marathon running. he is impressively hardworking as a writer and runner. Still suffers from the rather in your face self effacing.

http://ibidprojects.com/exhibitions/ I hate to be neg, but this was really uninspiring. Little brown figurative paintings with quirky bits. You've got to make a living, but why not mix it up a little. There is a lot of this round, it's a sort of conservative contemporary art, paintings which look l...

quite funny, quite good. not very. mumblecore director or something. marisa tomei is good and should feature more

a good film, anderson is clear about his concerns, that children can be grown up and adults childish, and that is not a bad thing, we dont need to be stuck in our ages. That life should be spent pursuing whatever quirky vision you have, and that it is full of sad beauty.

I love ha jin, these are stories, more novels please. But great. I feel like a chinese immigrant to NY. Read ha jin.

Funny if a bit drawn out. Basically the hangover. 40 year old virgin type film with female protagonists, which is progress of sorts. Soon we will all be the same in an ok way.

Perhaps not the most hard edged exploration of civil rights ever made, but nevertheless, extremely entertaining and somewhat political.

hot new poet's novel. He looks like franzen but writes better. This is a coming of age writer in foreign country story, clearly a lot of autoB thrown in, with some unreliable narrator and philosophy about art alienation etc you know what I mean. It's better than it sounds. It's good.

Good show, nice to see all the lines. Highlights: a rubens of his new 16 yo wife. A soft ingres. Some British watercolours. A mass of styles. Almost makes you want to draw.

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2012/master-drawings/index.shtml

Ho Hum, good to have a new space at the modern, which for some reason (architect's ramps, bridge etc) always leaves me worn out. Sehgal is the present genius showing for Unilever, he doesn't abide contracts etc, and gets paid with a verbal agreement. People come and talk to you, telling you poignant...

fabled babel i had never read before. died tragically by stalin. hard to know whether all that great, is much lost in translation? tone, words, dialect, piercing phrases.

this is very poor, silly, predictable campus comedy, and his style of writing is awkward to read and not insightful. If you want this go to bradbury, lodge or better still read Lucky jim, the masterpiece, and nothing else.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/12/team-arts-gold-olympics

scroll down to the comments.. enlightening

I finally (call me stupid) realised why I find discussions about success in the artworld so incredibly boring and depressing. It reminds me of school, who's popular, how do you get in with the right crowd etc etc. Life, the interaction with others, reduced to a kind of tension inducing and joyless s...

art reviewer dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/arts/robert-hughes-art-critic-whose-writing-was-elegant-and-contentious-dies-at-74.html

good phrase maker but a little conservative and too down on schnabel. Still at least he judged.