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Initially I resisted this MOR offering from former hard rockin' guitar hero JJ, but I've come to love the straight out tenderness. 8-) Is it still possible to write - much less sing - the wrenching romantic ballad? Jim reminds me a bit of Paul McCartney, with a voice the equal of even the mushiest s...

This is an intensely guilty pleasure. While I might only score it five or six with some sobriety, any film that details a painter’s seduction into the film industry in the early seventies and includes scenes like queuing outside The Electric Cinema in Portobello Road for an obscure late show/ all-ni...

Gauche. For starters, what is going to hold this patty of finely chopped (minced?) steak together? You might press it firmly together with your hands, but once in a pan or on a grill, under heat it will just fall apart without a binder of say, beaten egg. Then it will only have the consistency of a ...

Primitive.

This is what painting is like for me.

Mary definitely looks like she's got a bit of a sugar buzz going...

Courtesy of a Re-title feed - the guy has form but is new to me. Here . I'm interested I suppose because I'm doing black and white paintings at the moment, vaguely derived from photos - and black and white photos are currently a big part of Damian's work. They're medium to large and pretty tricky bu...

Lotsa reviews for this one though - mostly mixed or really negative. Still - 'no such thing as bad publicity or a bad review', they say. But I think the idea of an exhibition encapsulating a nation or continent is a bit silly. And what do people really expect? A succession of waves of Europeans appl...

The Unit's on form here , but I find the stuff patchy generally. :| There's a Boiler Room set of course, but I couldn't download it! :( Where's the fun it that? :mrgreen: But not to be a total prisoner of the BR - there's this set for Mixmag Lab , with Fracture and Ean Soundwave - but it's over two ...

Unexpectedly restrained JJ.

Liked the uptempo ones...

Very Ewok-ative

There's a heap of their stuff on You Tube - avant garde folk I guess you could say...

But this one - The Geshin and the Guga is rather sweet

This single is a couple of years old now but still sounds great. It's one of those catchy little love songs that can get stuck in your head, which is great if you have to spend all day in a drudge job :) You Tube has a couple of versions, the acoustic original and a remix - I prefer the remix. :D

Another Cali band on the grunge psychedelia tip, as they say. I particularly like The First White Man to Touch California Soil . :D If it's of interest, I learned of them from a You Tube interview with Ty Segall (Ty pretty much still my main man) in which he sketches the local scene and turns out to...

Blogs n stuff... Radio 6?... Tom Ravenscroft?

Today I’m getting hot under the collar about the recurring issue of supposed artists’ peer assessment, or artists as talent scouts for other artists. This is something I remember Saatchi said some time ago about spotting talent. Rather than ask dealers, who often only took the word of their most tru...

Minnesota band noted mostly for lead singer Nona Marie Invie's haunting vocals and lyrics (although I don't know that she's the main song writer in the band whose line-up can be as many as eight). They've been around since 2006 but I only recently got hooked. Here they do Something For Myself . :)

Californian slacker acid psycho rockers - this is actually who I thought Pond would sound like - again, okay in small doses, but a lot of the time just too slack for me...

I'd recommend Forever in Space though.

I think it's in part because it's a portrait of Lucien Freud (School of London double whammy). It's not my favourite Bacon (a George Dyer or Isabel Rawthorne would get my billions) but it is from the 60s - his golden period.

The money's probably Russian or Chinese - i.e. criminal.

Last year NME voted this band from Perth, West Australia as 'the hottest band in the world' . Ah dear old NME..... 8-) You Tube has quite a bit of their stuff - the hit album I think is Beard Wives and Denim from 2010 it's there too. At first I was looking for Beer Wives & Denim, which sounds mo...

Great bluesy voice, don't know that I could take a whole album or concert though. But liked Never Tell My Mother and Aching Bones - actually the video seems to be shot in a penthouse beside the Sydney Harbour Bridge for some reason - at least I think that's Aching Bones ... Nadine from Manchester th...

Good slagging here of the Art Basel/Miami circus. WWR says RIGHT ON MUSTAFA!

16th Oct – 16th Nov 2013 3511w Another version of this article appears on CAP’S CRITS where it has the advantage of opening links in a separate window. This saves you bouncing back and forth between text and illustrations... ;) This is not bad, certainly the best thing Stewie Shav’s shown for quite ...

DJ duo give it loads in their Boiler Room set.

'Course they probably wouldn't even let me in the place....

Great name for a siren obviously, but there's only really one track I like on her album and that's It's Too Late, and then there's a boss remix of it by Snakehips!

Brazilian psychedelic band from the late 60s, I've finally cottoned onto. They have a Wikipedia page.


This is their debut album from 1968.

The notorious BBC TV - NEWSNIGHT interview now available on You Tube . A clash of cultures really, Paxman, priggish establishment suck versus Brand, nimble Essex lad, up for the challenge. Needless to say Brand wins hands down, fields the insulting questions effortlessly, courteously. And Paxman's s...

Oh dear.

The stuff still seems a huge disappointment. Hard to put my finger on what exactly has gone wrong, but they've lost a lot of their spontanaiety. The 'fun' is all a bit forced now. They're still bold and colourful but kind of empty.

The End-of-Art guy meets his own peaceful end at 89. Distinguished philosopher - essentially idealist - and less distinguished art critic for The Nation - his Wikipedia page is not very good , but will have to do. It's still too early for proper obits. The Art Newspaper has jumped in, but it's prett...

Danish female pop trio - here's an old single called Apple Pie.

Political interpretation.

Just found another one.

Dreary thriller about child abduction in small town somewhere in Pennsylvania in winter – I don’t know why I bothered. Give it 2. On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, slumped in an empty cinema on an RDO, feeling like shit, this is what you end up with. What was I expecting? Apart from killing time, I su...

21st century Garage/Grunge Psychedelica I guess.... There's loads of stuff on You Tube . I'll file them with The Pandas .... :ugeek: Haven't really researched them, so I don't know just what the band might owe to Egypt, but they seem Cali-based. That droning feedback keyboard does it for me though ....

Hey Jiminy, long time no hear! Welcome back my little cricket. 8-) I meant my reviews here actually. The ones on CAP'S CRITS are more considered, I like to think. Here I shoot from the hip, to the hip. I was thinking of things like The Bruce High Quality Foundation review , or the Justin Mortimer pi...

A number of my art reviews over the past year have been deliberately provocative or insulting, depending where you stand. My hope was that they would at least draw outraged response, engender a lively critical thread. But they didn't. Which means either no one reads them or no one can be bothered wi...

A story about Formula One racing drivers from the 70s initially didn’t sound all that enticing. It would of course be another guy’s movie and I’d just seen Gravity . I changed my mind after seeing an interview with Daniel Brühl, one of the stars. He plays Austrian driver, Niki Lauda and described ho...

It looks like this.

The artist died in 2004 but his work surprisingly continues to circulate, often in public galleries. I confess to being gradually won over, almost in spite of Donald Buy-Kuspit’s book. There was a big show in Spain a couple of years ago and undeniably the scale suits big venues. I think there was so...

This could go under Television, could go under Reviews or Links, I'm putting here just for variety really. It's pretty long. (4668w) There have been two notable documentaries about the famous Chinese artist. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a 90 minute independent feature by Alison Klayman and Without Fea...

That’s actually how the title is spelt or spaced. What I liked about it was the stripped down, minimal story. Just a stranded astronaut trying to get back to earth and all the technical obstacles when you lose radio contact and your spaceship in a furious shower of space debris. The visuals are pret...

Here's a show of interesting abstract paintings that someone at Abstract Critical should review - even if only virtually.

The stuff is funky!

Here's John Yau's review on Hyperallergic. Yow!

This guy seems to be saying the same thing Hockney said a while ago - that it's all done by mirrors etc, although this guy calls it a comparator. I think it's obvious that some sort of optical device was used, whether it was really such a great trade secret as Hockney makes out I'm not so sure - si...

Blue Jasper

That Gisela Capitain (Berlin dealer, married and in partnership with Fritz Petzel) has a kindly face. She's the one on the left of this AF layout.

She might not be, but this is sort of my ideal image of a dealer...

That said, I did end up seeing this, as usual mixing up my session times and intending to see Rush . :roll: Okay it’s not brilliant, and Greta is not Dianne Keaton and can’t quite carry a leading role yet but I did think it was a slight improvement on Greenberg where she is disastrously paired with ...

Here's a show by a new Nigerian female artist. I like

There was an exhibition of his Ned Kelly paintings at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Nov 2012 > Jan 2013.

I'm sure it thrilled our Irish massive.

Here's a rather sniffy Australian review of 'Australia'.

I often wish WWR attracted lively comments threads and had more regular contributors. But after looking at some other sites that do attract these things, I realise it can get pretty ugly. Actually, I remember , it can get pretty ugly. Back in the days of the PaintersNYC blog (2006-8), you’d get all ...

It's true, NB looks like a sleaze.

Just looking at the website for this one- I'd go if I had the time... Intriguing stuff...