London deserted, fled olympix. Seen this show before. Pervy old style painting in soft feathered focus. He has unleased a bit more texture in the cloth but otherwise samo. He does the boucher wellish, but is there really mileage in this style or is it just pastiche. The odd groups perhaps are strong...
a film so boring I walked out with 15mins to go, refusing to let myself be bored any longer and indifferent to the ending. A thudding drum beat does not cover the massive and silly and dull holes in this 3 hour portentuous-monstrosity. The dark knight was good, so well done for making a new film wit...
biographies are a bit boring but joyce was not, strange even after you read every day of his life competently reported you can still not understand how he came up with ulysses.
The jerwood is a beautiful small kunsthalle with architecture that works, using wonderful views of the sea and natural light. Tate modern take a lesson. The little permanent collection of british stuff like sickert, spencer, gertler and more minor masters is a real joy and just what you want by the ...
Dizzee Rascal got it after the golden heart. Preceded by coke bus (free cokes! hurrah) and a blaring dancing idiot bus from samsung and a more trad lloyds charabanc. Dizzee jogged with the flaming thing, and there was a moment of joy amid all the crap.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphosis-titian-2012 this is an excellent and enjoyable show, I much preferred the art to the costumes. Interesting to see a Shawcross vitrine, vs Ofili Painting, vs Wallinger peepshow. The Shawcross vitrine was spellbinding, if raising qu...
http://ibidprojects.com/group-show-2012/ perhaps I am stupid. I think the link is to the show I saw. You know the show, some bits and pieces, a photo, some junk arranged, a painting with no apparent content. All in a nice building with white walls and cute staircases. So it seems like a complete wa...
usual new yorker hagiography. problem with nyer is that if you know anything about the subject you realise that the reporting is anodyne puff piece. still best mag in world in english.
I'd go for cezanne landscape, but take picasso still life and matisse portrait from the moderns. Anyone no excuses, let's get on with making some good stuff.
I think there's room in picasso and matisse for growth. I was thinking the other day that we are living in a mannerist age, after the great tumult of modernism. Our attempts at art are frustrated by the genius of the previous great age, as we pick over its corpse and exaggerate and mine minor parts ...
http://www.chickenandsteak.co.uk/ Of course this should be in consumption, but the restaurant has much of contemporary art's hype about it ,and rests in the heart of shoreditch. There is a commissioned Damien Hirst of a cow and chicken high up in a tank, which looks good, and the restaurant is spaci...
I saw a munch show about 18 years ago, before my ruskin interview, and then when they asked which contemporary artist i liked answered munch, who wasnt alive even back then. I remembered him as a bit boring. But these sketchy pictures were good in the now times. There's a large munch bunch in contem...
Strange how kids films are so much more disturbing than adult ones (that have almost no substance). This was good. A little girl's cat goes robbing at night with a cat burglar. The girl's mother is a police officer whose husband has been killed by a nasty criminal. The girl's nanny is in cahoots wit...
i'm into supermarket curry at the moment. half price chicken tikka massala or korma goes down well, better than a lot of bad indian restaurants on brick lane. But this rog josh without rice was terrible, the lamb was so soft it had no meat texture, the sauce was tasteless and overwhelmed the few bit...
You hear this question all the time when you have a show on. Perhaps people are just being politely interested/making conversation. I think they are asking what material benefits you have reaped from your exhibition, such as paintings sold, new shows generated, reviews received. As an artist who I a...
the numbheads go here, it looks like it might be tasty but isnt, just ok looking fast food presented as something more, the steak is cold with a too sugary sauces, even the spring rolls are dead. everything could be made ok with some love, some herbs , some care and flavour. pity the modern consumer...
Some good stuff, and the show is well hung and easy to look at, but there is that contemporary art school feeling of too much precision, not enough freedom to make a mess or fail, and a lot of tutors paring down work to a few clearly expressed bits. But that's what art is these fine days and so you ...
Big difference: great discursive tv show http://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry/4od intelligent questioning of important underrepresented subject by sensitive but inquisitive host. Art Show not so much. Tapestries which look like big cartoons or 80s glasgwegian f...
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry/4od this is good, he asks intellligent questions and listens to the answers. In the past i found his tv appearances irritating, he affected a philistine attitude to contemporary art, playing up or repeating the stereotypes ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jun/11/documenta-13-festival-art-in-pictures#/?picture=391427029&index=8 http://d13.documenta.de/ Hmm, some of this looks good, but I have that feel of art turned into an entertaining spectacle, perhaps this performance, walk into a room, a to...
anderson (whose fantastic fox and darjeeling were recent failures) overwhelms his films with twee detail and centre composed tableaux vivants, you feel his fussy touch on everything, which is like eating overly presented food. But he is capable of great magic when he lets the stories and characters ...
http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1416/guillermo-kuitca/view/ whats with this cubism, in one gallery are some map abstractions, in another some diverting cubist type paintings. Is this guy with us in the present age? as I was looking at picasso I thought why don't people paint like him anymore...
Hologram. tick. Richter. tick. Warhol.tick. The best painting by far, really feels royal is Annigoni's http://blog.londonconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/annigoni4.jpg , it has a viewpoint, mayble slightly absurd of majesty, note the landscape beneath her. Strange how Annigoni was perhaps t...
Genuinely exciting and epic read. Richly written and peopled, the loss of dwarves, hobbit, elves, etc ( a sort of nostalgia) is the most pervading theme of this and the lord of rings. Magic (or childhood) is in the past. Did tolkien invent all the shit which spawned dungeons and dragons, harry potte...
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12409 Bauhaus, lots of nice designs for posters and photos of interesting looking people larking about, and some chairs that ended up in Ikea. Was it anything more than that? Like constructivism in Russia, or American Abex, it would have bee...
Hmm, supose conflict on interest as I have a show of my own on in the same square. But this looked like an art student degree show with some pleasant drawings based on, I am guessing here, the weather, and some embroideries. Pointless and average.
the classic is £5.50 which seems a bit pricey for lunch, but they are delicious and addictive, spice, fat, crunch, salt in a good roll. pate +pork+ spicy pickley vegetables= happiness.
hmm, the beginning was quite funny, I fell asleep for a bit and the ending was ok. It's not genius, there are moment of lol humour, the whole construct is not all that shocking really, a 1970s sketch show comes to mind.
cracking, another funeral. he's moved on from some of the shit. reads very well, and sometimes very funny, only slight flaw is that the characters only seem to have existed in the books not the times in between. great on the upper classes.
OK. quite entertaining, but the writers and artists he meets in the way back machine are not as clever or surprising as you would like. And usual problem the woody dialogue coming from owen wilsons mouth would have sounded so much better from mr allen 30 years ago and been better written. If only we...
Homeland is quite entertaining to watch, a bit gripping. Our hero, a captured soldier, has become a terrorist after watching 82 kids blown up, that's the maths, one white american will kill the VP if he blows up 82 arab kids, one of whom we have got to like and watch die in his arms in a single epis...
I found this show wearing (ha ha). It is quite moving, the ones where she put the kids words in the adults mouths. She is the English Cindy sherman, but not as good. Her photos really don't seem original. We're all weaing masks. She exposes some thing with the technique of showing what people are th...
This movie has been a massive hit and it is total and utter shit. I was bored after it began. There is no plot, character development, or even beautiful images. The 3D is less interesting than the flat, the effect makes the screen smaller, and they don't even really bother much with it. There are a ...
Ok, quite a trio. Who wins? Quick answer Kusama. Her room full of lights and mirrors is the best exhibit, taking you to a kind of vision of heaven or something weird anyway. Hirst is so hyped up and knocked down that it's hard to see clearly. I found his art disappointingly repetitive and visually f...
This must be one of the most poncy cinemas in London, all armchairs and members club atmo. An irritated patron buzzed the staff about there being no blankie on his seat, he wouldn't let go of the matter, apparently people have been stealing them and they are out of stock. He wanted to know when they...