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decent balance of salt and sugar, nigel slater do you approve?

Too dark to see properly

no, I cut and pasted it from twitter!

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To deal with the content, all (good) painters like Tuymans sound the same, the same agony. Always find it depressing, but that's just a childish desire to be unique... Wish painting could be more open, less a specialised compulsion, but guess that in its results, the show, it becomes available to all.

WS comes across as trying to keep up (keep his hip) with grissled painting LT.

Thanks for posting this!

Not even 1/10th as good as inbetweeners, still slightly funny

roth writes with his usual effortless reading clear good prose but this book is weak. The love object (breasts) are so ludicrous without even being funny, and the final tumourous end is so bad as almost to be funny. Pity the dying male.

Perhaps he's just been absorbed by the market driven consensus without realising it. Sassy's paintings are snazzy cuteness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/18/wilhelm-sasnal-review-whitechapel

Is searle an art CRITIC or just a pr man for the art market?

so bad i only managed a chapter, amis is really a very bad writer, dull and showoffy at the same time.

not as great as london train, somehow the postwar setting is tedious like all those borefests set in the past beloved of the contemporary novelist. it all comes together for a good last 1/4. though the writing is also less pellucid than other hadleys.

http://liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/jm2012/

let failed artists give better artist 25 quid in a giant ponzi scheme

"In a visual culture flooded by photographic images, Sasnal’s work attests to the continuous spellbinding power of painting. " http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/wilhelm-sasnal In the wall text we are told he choose which photos he paints from carefully. That's a relief. He is a...

The mystery continues of how Auster went from America's Borges to pulp faux intellectual churner outer of empty cliched cardboard cut out character, Paul Auster books. See Woody Allen for similar descent. This book is very readable.

OVERPRICED AND DISGUSTING TO CHARGE ARTISTS THIS FOR A LOTTERY TICKET The Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open is now open to receive applications, submission fee £25: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/193/product_id/1063?session_id=13176316688a126482357b1b3b60e7d05294a9cb72 “T...

Massively well received exhibition with rave reviews all over the place. If you go see it, you might realise that Richter is not very good and appeals to philistines and people who don't really like art because: 1: He paints like photos (he mayhave invented this idea, but it's not that amazing, and ...

have you read freedom.. lots of boring bits about birds... franzen one good book about his family: corrections)

greenwingish tomfoolery with sort of manic ticks and rude words. not actually very funny or good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/29/voluntary-register-journalists-interests-astroturfing

http://www.monbiot.com/registry-of-interests/

cool

Have I mentioned how great libraries are, they have all these books which you can just borrow, and you can go online and reserve books from other libraries which you've always wanted and they deliver them to your library. Like Amazon but you only pay council tax and don't have to hope they can fit t...

Not as good as the London train, the plot is a bit melodramatic, but still thrilling in its sensitivity to how people are with people.

How the mighty have fallen. As usual with Auster it's readable, but only that, a man with greater storytelling powers than new ideas. So shallow somehow, all the characters cyphers. Oh he can tell stories, that's some talent. But where's the life?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/26/white-cube-empire-record-gallery

boom boom

Nice to find a new (to me) author who's great to read. It's a brilliant book, clear eyed, surprising and sensitive to how people love and live. I didn't want to put it down. I look forward to reading the rest of her books. Should win the booker prize.

Having circumnavigated the eager beavers of the art book fair which i had no interest in, I found some art. The govt art collection salon hung by cornelia parker was good, nice to see old and new brushing up against each other to mutual advantage, and some contemporary artists you haven't seen for a...

Ok, the rich are different, but in this case not very interesting. Dee is not a very good writer and he kills what interest you might have in the aspiring billionaires dead with his flat prose and characters. Hard to enjoy.

famous dad memoir, not very good, great genius behind sophies choice, lets understand what a justified great man wanker he was, in tedious dull lumpy prose. pointless

much recommnened by franzen et all. not bad but every character has the same quirky punning humour which is annoying and most of the stories are depressing, there are LOL moments and some good lyrical writing, but not quite top drawer.

His last book of stories. The usual themes, aging, death, sex, small town, looking back to childhood. All the more precious because he is gone now. Especially interesting are his high school reunion stories, which crop up regularly in his oeuvre.

ugly it is, but ugly often becomes beautiful over time. BTW CAP have changed the settings so people can write reviews as guests but posts are moderated, and they have to enter a captcha code. also new member's posts all have to be approved, once one post has been approved they can write unmoderated.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/no-more-shock-tactics-marcus-harvey-reveals-why-hes-happy-to-leave-the-yba-movement-behind-2354838.html usual silly headline... the only thing the press write about is YBA, saatchi, shock art, millions pounds, celeb collector, um that's i...

Lots of old paintings, including gainsborough, watteau, fragonard, lots of rooms shut so that's wasn't so good. Older folk having tea in expensive cafe. Hushed tones. All these old paintings, especially canaletto and gaurdi so formulaic, even the others like that, just draw it out and fill it in, pa...

I read about a David Hockney show at the Royal Academy, britain's greatest living artist in all the papers blah blah blah, he's not a bad painter, so I went along to see it and discover it's not on till 2012! PR gone mad.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/07/david-hockney-film-exhibit...

They seem to have become friendlier. Austerity has warmed their froideur.

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1048/phyllida-barlow-rig/view/

Good for PH, she's had a mega renaissance. Concrete on sticks, impressive spectacle of popsicle, with expanding foam, reminded me of ewok huts. Otherwise unmoved.

It's hard to feel too sorry for posh people who don't get the inheritance they wanted, but maybe that's his point. The scenes from the children's perspectives are funny but not quite on the money. Sour, a little funny, and very fluid prose.

You walk in. And it is like breathing again. Picasso, open, beautiful, exciting, alive. A bare woman against a background of bare canvas. So this is what it's about.

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt. 2. Give enough direct quotation — at least one extended passage — of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste. 3. Confirm your descript...

his last novel, I think, and uneven, not the smooth brilliance, flashes remain, but very much coming to the end, which is his theme.

believable recreation of dostoevsky by invisibly brilliant (great clear stories and prose) writer.

Much better than gossip girl. All the brand names and restaurants and characters which just talk and do things, like real life, no back stories and development. The killing and torture scenes i found too scary and unpleasant to read much of, but they puncture the high price banality of consumption, ...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/graffiti-wars/4od

The silly grandiose narration distracts but vaguely interesting. Old point, but graffiti is good because it is made out of exigency and urgency and on walls. Stuff on canvas loses the zip.

The athletics coverage is shit. The streaming doesn't work on channel 4, and the radio 5 commentators just squeal about the Brits, not bothering to mention what is happening in the races, like who is in which place or which runner is in the lead. They ask stupid questions of winners like what are yo...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010j56z/American_The_Bill_Hicks_Story/

this wasn't as good as i was hoping, a film of his stand-up would have been better, and all the cosmic bullishit has aged badly.

Not bad, but not that amazing. The artist and writer and general genius James Franco smirks his way through it, and Frieda Pinto as love interest has as much character as a bean. The monkey is good in a digital way. The story is poorly paced, and sets up the sequel (original) in an overly obvious wa...

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/will-art-fairs-replace-the-traditional-art-gallery kinda intresting

Oxford is full of things to mispronounce like the Ashmolean, bodlean library, and other things I've forgotten. It's designed so that snearing students can correct you. This museum is pretty good, now all redesigned with some light coming in. I liked the dutch still life room and a little room of 19t...

who is the unindenitfied man?