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Yes - indiscriminate 'greatness' quickly becomes grating.

Totally agree

Yes the latest edition of Cathy Lomax’s Garageland – the 12th (unbelievably) is now available, edited around the theme of Fake . I’m not just announcing this because I have a modest piece in it – although I do – nosirree nor because things are a bit slow here at the WWR news desk, what with JJ posti...

Serious textile design for the conservative-at-heart.

Crazy site, advertised in Art Forum for some reason.

Reviews-U-Like.

So much for art criticism on Fascistbook. Look I don't blame you for wanting to share, you assumed you were among friends when they were nothing of a sort. But you've got to realise old Matt and his cronies are not really up for it. I suppose this paints you as a tad naïve, but hopefully there’s a l...

Matthew Collings: 'I haven't read some of the other comments. And I don't identify with the nastiness in some of the ones I have read'.

- '....a silly art-world hustler like RM'.

Takes one to know one, I guess.

Jeez Feath… were you on the wrong thread! Looks like you caught Matt rehearsing his part for the next Grumpy Old Men series, and finding plenty of willing accomplices. Mike Hinc among them – Mike? Please Mike! What can you say? Some people just don’t or won’t get it. It’s probably a generational th...

I think you actually have to know Matt for him to befriend you on FB - or at least that's what it says there. As for Mosley - here's another good'un from the Jacques site ( The Rest of His Natural Life 210 X 190 cm 2011). Incidentally, to link to gallery JPGs you just right click on the image, scrol...

Nice work Feath. Welcome.

Incidentally, links for the illustrations: - Heavy Bouquet (whole) and detail, and Cave Inn (whole) and detail.

What about The Red Dog Saloon?

See if you can work out which Chapman brother produced what in this online version of the exhibition:

Click here or on the image to launch

Terry Smith: What Is Contemporary Art? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 344 pp. ISBN: 13-978-0-226-76431-3. (a review in the style of Matthew Collings) According to Smith, Contemporary Art is basically installations and videos, especially those made in countries that were recently coloni...

Well this one was a real snore. Whoever left the postit with '30 Girls With Ripped Bodies!' beside the show's listing in my copy of Time Out, has something to answer for!

Judging by his name, I thought he might be an Aussie.



Then I found out it was pronounced 'Stroot'.

Awesome list.

This is basically Badlands Meets 2001: A Space Odyssey . And yes, as you might guess, there are a few structural problems, even Terry Malick’s distinctive montage cannot surmount. Badlands was his first and best feature from the early 70s about a doomed young couple fleeing 50s Texas across the grea...

Australia's favourite drunk driver gets the full and frank treatment [url]=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(critic)here[/url]. I don't know how accurate it all it, but it does make for an appalling and amusing read in equal measure. At least his life has never been boring.

Yes, Mike and his reviews, a welcome addition here, certainly. I’m glad someone’s come forward to cover these shows, I’d never get round to them, although probably I should. For those that have come in late, Christoph Büchel belongs to the encyclopaedic school of installation/performance (for preced...

Chantal a relation, JJ?

Well ‘contemporary painting’ is a huge category. Let’s sort it a bit. Firstly, there’re different kinds; like abstract, semi-abstract, figurative from expressionist to photo-realist and so on, all painting, and all rough but valid categories. Then there’s global versus local painters, stuff that’s j...

I'm afraid that's the way it's always been AR, the way it'll always be. There just ain't a lot of quality around, never will be. That's sort of what makes it quality, really. It is depressing trawling through the dross after a while. Your senses do get deadened, blunted by wave after wave of mediocr...

To view the NYT video try this . But actually there's loads of Trecartin's videos on You Tube. To get an idea of the South Park Meets Warhol/Smith aesthetic try this one . But the whole I Be Area series pretty much stake out his territory by 2008, seems to me. There is something there, but I'm not s...

The first third is OK - great portrait of growing up in London in the 1950s - 60s, Dartford style. Amazing memory given all that substance abuse for 40 years. After that it's a dreary parade of drug busts, court cases and world tours. Lottsa bitching about Mick Jagger, but I guess it's not easy bein...

Techno Camp.

Time for another Jack Smith revival then?

It's just a composited 'drawing' I did in Ps. To see the whole thing try this . ;) Sorry. I'm just screwing around. I needed a little diversion from a lot of heavy academic research for a big article that'll probably end up on CAP'S CRITS after it gets rejected elsewhere. Ekphrasis is this neat Gree...

The Demon Drummer of Greek Street

Very nice review too Harry. Although I was disappointed that misspelled received in the third paragraph. Still, there may be some sort of street cred attached to this...

You obviously went on a different day from Lamp.

That's putting it mildly.

Well old Bernie has shuffled off. Crazy Kokoschka-esque Expressionist apparently seen as one of the founders of The Leipzig School, a somewhat more painterly version of socialist realism, usually typified by Wille Sitte , et al. And not to be confused with famous conductor Bernard Haitink. At some p...

Also an instructive You Tube , unfortunately compered by the simpering Ben Lewis, but provides an excellent interview with Nelson - taking a surprisingly formal line on his installation, and somewhat at odds with the prevailing view of his work as more or less elaborate film sets for sordid settings...

I think it’s just the old mid-career artist backlash, really. Was Surly ever a fan? I can’t remember. But, undeniably, 10-12 years down the track, some of the thrill has gone, romance has settled into a working relationship, and Cec’s shortcomings – as with any artist – become clearer. Welcome to li...

Hi Corr! Thanks for clarifying. Although if my friemd has barred me from his wall, (which is probably the case) why not just 'defriend' me? What would be the point of remaining 'friends' if not to share that much? Maybe they just didn't think of that? Strange anyway, but no great loss in any case. X...

Interestingly – well to me at least - over on the Das Kunst Mag site, the band of merry Germans reviewing The Venice Bi are giving The Golden Lion , or whatever the main prize is, to Nelson’s installation. It’s that, or to Roman Abramovich’s massive, black ‘yacht’ Luna , dominating the docks. The Ge...

I never really get how this works: since 'a friend' can pick up or 'share' an entry or comment with other friends, so that you can comment on the entry, even if it doesn't originate with your 'friend' - only their sharing of an unshared friend, so to speak. That would be fine if the entry then becam...

No, the book is real, sadly. Its ISBN 978-0-262-51567-2, published by MIT press Cambridge, Massachusetts and Whitechapel Galery Ventures Ltd - http://www.whitechapelgallery.org - distributed by Central Books (http://www.centralbooks.com). My paraphrased and abbreviated version of the dialogue betwee...

To take another screaming example of lameness – on the back cover it proclaims a long list of artists ‘surveyed’ in the book and includes Sigmar Polke (understandably) – except that the only entry on Polke I can find is a brief exchange (perhaps a quarter of a page) between Robert Storr and French C...

Wish I shared your faith in hit counters, JJ. My experience is it's all about the counting and when and how 'a hit' is counted. Over the years, I tried about 5 different counters on CAP - all delivering wildly varying numbers - depending on how they distribute hits within their count (a range of sit...

I toyed with writing a ‘straight’ review of this book for another, more respected site (they invite submissions). But in the end I decided against it. I suppose blogging has spoilt me, the promise of open source sites, like this one, is too much of a temptation. I would rather rant here, straight fr...

Karl Pilkington is certainly amusing, as the plain-speaking Mancunian alone in exotic tourist spots, but Ricky's interventions seriously backfire for me. The more he stresses his pleasure at Karl's discomfort, the weaker Karl's response becomes. You keep waiting for Karl to say, "Fuck off Gerva...

And may many more continue to do so.

Salle can't dance no more!

Come on, Maureen!



Take this to the bank

Don’t bother. 240 pages, without so much as a single reproduction, excepting the cover. In a book supposedly about painting, this is not a good look and it’s certainly not a good method. It’s an anthology of fifty short articles by mostly ‘name’ critics and artists on the value of painting but not a...

I happened to watch James Kalm's video of this show the other day, and was a little surprised at Grotty's direction - big gestural-but-schematic arcs of mainly tertiary colours - lotta white. Derived from tribal masks - stylised faces. I don't know, I suppose if I just saw one or two in a group show...

Trier can obviously be very trying. Thing is, he's a crap film maker anyway.

Going off!