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Turned into smutty wonder years

Will look into it and implement if possible

New Proust? Hmm, not quite, but Karl Ove is a man who can make a description of washing his hands interesting. The themes, childhood, death, father, are universal but he brings intelligence wit and obsession to them in a way that's hard to describe (not for him). A book that will linger and keep you...

Agree don't think wwr hatchety, but agree with JONES too that art reviews need to be more direct and critical. Most reviews are just descriptive... Usually of the press release

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2012/humphrey-ocean-a-handbook-of-modern-life.php I liked this show, the paintings are fluent with an odd solidness given to them by I guess colour and the use of gouache. They are quick portraits with the odd drip and chunky hands and the figures get bigger at ...

Good name. fluid writer, coming of age story. bit too norwegian james dean/hemingway for me, but still good.

These rom cons are so formulaic that you require zero brain power to interpret them. Everything is conveniently spelled out including any zany quirks. They are such a simplification of human tessellations as to be almost beautiful.

Shows how good UK version is. Peculiarly mangled

yeh, consumption, it's all about consuming

I am sure this is an important worthy show, but the first few lines read like a parody of a socially concerned art show! "Women of the Middle East tell Their Story A Palestinian all-female auto racing team, transsexuals in Jerusalem, cluster bomb survivors trying to rebuild their lives, Iranian...

Ah the hairy feeted one finally gets his own film. I havent seen a film in a cinema for a while so perhaps my views are distorted but... Well it's 1/3 of the story, it's got some strange additions, and Jackson's messed up the structure. But... I didn't watch it in 3D, which I find annoying and small...

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/15/tvs_most_islamophobic_show/ good to see the msm catching up with wwr

the end is more boring than the beginning with these seriesz. once they start doing uncompetitive tasks like advertising michelin star restaurants while sort of working in them, it gets really dull and you're just watching, or fast forwarding, to get to the bit where greg and roux tell them how amaz...

hagiography dressed up as journalism. 90% of the profiles are basically 'arent rich people great or arent famous people amazing!' how bout a little critical distance

I haven't been looking at art and havent been reviewing it and I havent been in miami.

http://galleristny.com/2012/12/damien-hirst-to-split-with-gagosian/


Well amazing! WOW etc. yeh what fascinating and exciting news

yes, it's my favourite tv show now.

better than the fish pie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/ ... video-work
woz the best

alright with ketchup and chinese chilli oil. but most food is edible with that combo.

mashed potato is gloopy, and the fish seems to be entirely pollock, where are the prawns and other fishy friends?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/20/james-franco-christmas-shop-art

great PR

feels a bit played out. 8 series enough.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/bigger-splash-painting-after-performance As has been said elsewhere, something cynical about digging up the poster friendly hockney to hawk tickets for a show on performance-art-painting. I always like to see old okcneys they are less finished,...

always avoid historical novels, something ineffably dull, silly, anachronistic, and bourgeois about them, but actually this is pretty great. Even if Thomas Cromwell was nothing like this, who cares, Mantel takes you deep inside his mind, and the experience is thrilling, will try the ubiquitious wolf...

http://rosenfeldporcini.com/exhibition/the-continuation-of-romance/ The Continuation of Romance; painting an interrrupted discourse at Rosenfeld Porcini. How's dat for a show title and gallery name. It is what you'd imagine from all that gumf. However in their favour the gallery asst. was pleasant ...

http://www.paradiserow.com/exhibitions/73/overview/ Full Disclosure, I vaguely know both artist and gallerist. I thought this show was a step forward for the painter, bolder and brasher than previous work. The ones that worked best were those that had overwhelming pattern, eg a woman in a patterene...

much better than the ruined new series of fresh meat. Farcical LOL with strong actors.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/friday-night-dinner/4od

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/william-klein-daido-moriyama

Boring sort of graphic films and photos. Ok, ok, they're not that bad, but nowt special for a big show at the modern.

Gerald Laing, 1936 - 2011

I am not keen on the work

thanks CAP, that's much better. I like that they are made up from his head. I don't like the way the hair is painted.

http://www.barbicanartsgrouptrust.co.uk/ I know this guy a bit, not well. The paintings look like he has observed real people, fat hanging over trousers, the shape of an opening in a woman's shirt etc. They are most successful when the observation is amusing or the painting of line and colour hums,...

despite reservations about its islamophobia, series 2 is more gripping, though they cram too many plot twists in

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/nov/12/alex-katz-video-interview

I remember seeing him speak a decade ago, and liking his energy but finding him a little macho for my delicate tastes.

growing on me

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/seduced-by-art

All right, here's some paintings that look a bit like photos, no no, photos that look like paintings. Gottit.

the filter coffee for 99p is great at pret

Hi CAP, I wouldnt be too paranoid! I imagine people and galleries google themselves and so the people reviewed probably often do read the reviews. Hopefully the helpful criticism will help them improve!

Makes a big impression with great sentences and bilingual verbal dexterity, all the the Dominican spanish broke the flow for me, I get the idea though,but made me feel like I was reading Dora the Explorer. The nerd references etc pile up with the Dominican stuff, and it does make for a dense excitin...

equals catfood

not as funny and the storylines lack pep.

corruption, it sleeps with your wife/husband/daughter/son delete as appropriate

well put bandb

http://www.alisant.net/cca/sitespecific/cage.html true, even if a bit hippy dippy... john cage: some rules for students and teachers RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything ou...

seems a bit harsh on old Ian, he was at college with me and is a good sincere intelligent chap. But agreed the minimalism and dirty rag aesth. get on my nerves too. it seems to sayL: arent I important because there's nothing much to see.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w5mlg/Miranda_Series_2_The_New_Me/

surprisingly good for a britisch sitcom, miranda is an excellent physical comedian and patricia hodge good as her mum.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2012 I am going to get to the point after a bit. I was disappointed by Paul Noble's drawings, I had been a fan, but hadnt seen any actual ones for a time, they are funny, but the style of obsessive sharp pencil wears thin.it's goo...

Interesting lena is daughter of good painter carroll. I've only watched two episodes so far, the sex is pleasantly awful, and the dialogue snappy, it doesn't actually seem that far removed from sex and the city, just younger women and a bit less cartoony. Still I will keep watching.

Doigs table tennis painting on show at the Tate I liked a lot, better example, or different context, its odd bisection by the table and wavy background trees glowed.