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Re: Adventures of the Black Square @ Whitechapel Gallery

Another excellent review of the show on Saturation Point by Alan Fowler. 8-)
Dr. Fowler, an expert on British Constructivism (a 50s movement) takes Blazzo to task for yet more sloppy research. :P
by CAP
Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:23 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Adventures of the Black Square @ Whitechapel Gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 13365

List of Artists for the 2015 Venice Biennale

The list of artists for Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World’s Futures” at the 2015 Venice Biennale has been released. There are 136 selections by the notorious pedant and fop. Needless to say this year’s Ven-Bi promises to be every bit the artistic black hole (sic) that the curator’s Documenta at Kassel ...
by CAP
Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:13 am
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: List of Artists for the 2015 Venice Biennale
Replies: 0
Views: 5024

Fortitude

A complete waste of time. Writer Simon Donald and director Sam Miller, trying for a bit of that Scandinavian mystique of hits like The Bridge and The Killing but just don't have the story-telling basics down. No pacing, no coherence = boredom. They literally lose the plot amid striking scenery and m...
by CAP
Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:20 pm
 
Forum: Television
Topic: Fortitude
Replies: 0
Views: 4311

African Scream Contest

Okay I was suckered in by the title for this one . A compilation of late 60s - early 70s funk singles from Togo and Benin in West Africa, when there was obviously an enormous James Brown influence haunting the lands. It has charm. There is also a couple of strange long pauses toward the end in which...
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:22 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: African Scream Contest
Replies: 0
Views: 4382

Young Fathers – Rain or Shine

As usual I’m late getting with this act, and while never much for Rap am just LUUURRVING their Rain or Shine . This is my absolute favourite song of this batch. Again, I think it’s the little Fi-Fa organ at the start and then that absolutely pile-driving beat that follows. Heaven, sheer heaven. :D
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:19 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Young Fathers – Rain or Shine
Replies: 0
Views: 4291

The Prom - Cry Baby Cry

Straightforward, heads down pounding single by new London three piece(?)

Look - it’s not Girl Band, granted – although they do have a female singer at least, but I like this sort of energy at some point in my day. :twisted:
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:18 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: The Prom - Cry Baby Cry
Replies: 0
Views: 4310

Denai Moore

Okay, putting aside the animal theme now – Moore : black East Londoner with a plaintive wail and surprisingly mature lyrics (I think she’s still a teenager). Pumped loads last year. Soulful but maybe a bit limited in song structure, so far. It remains to be seen. The one I liked the best on the radi...
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:16 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Denai Moore
Replies: 0
Views: 4301

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – I’m in Your Mind Fuzz

Again, the kind of 60s-ish psychedelic brew that I have always been a sucker for – and still with the wild animal thing going. This newish band hails from Melbourne and towards the end of last year did some well-received gigs around London. Maybe they’ve even relocated there by now. I should keep up...
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:12 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – I’m in Your Mind Fuzz
Replies: 0
Views: 4304

Hookworms

Another animal themed choice, for listening of late while I put in the long ones on my series about wild animals. You spend ages waiting for the work to really hook you and then when it does you end up doing insane hours without realising. When things are going well or I’m just doing the 99% drudger...
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:09 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Hookworms
Replies: 0
Views: 4096

Panda Bear - Greeting The Reaper

Well things have been pretty quiet on the Music forum while I’ve been away. I’ve been busy working on a series about wild animals and what was more appropriate to listen to than something like Panda Bear? Actually for a while I thought PB was a bit too dance or something and then I saw him on Fallon...
by CAP
Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:06 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Panda Bear - Greeting The Reaper
Replies: 0
Views: 4285

Re: Art in the 21st Century: INVESTIGATION

These are some really weird combinations of artist (deliberately?)

Elliot Hundley and Trevor Paglen? :shock:
by CAP
Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:31 am
 
Forum: Art press releases
Topic: Art in the 21st Century: INVESTIGATION
Replies: 1
Views: 6674

Re: 2015 Armory Show - Contemporary: An Overview

Thanks for that. Melgaard just doesn't do it for me, unfortunately. :(
by CAP
Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:01 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: 2015 Armory Show - Contemporary: An Overview
Replies: 1
Views: 14482

Re: 2015 Armory Show - Initial Dispatch: Press Conference Re

Looking forward to hearing more about the art now... :|
by CAP
Fri Mar 06, 2015 1:30 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: 2015 Armory Show - Initial Dispatch: Press Conference Review
Replies: 1
Views: 15619

Re: MARLENE DUMAS at Tate Modern

She is SO OVERRATED ! Going back to her first museum survey - The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1992, I think it was - ( Miss Interpreted ) - yeah that's 23 years of 'em! - there has not been a lot of development or variety. Even back then there was the child sexuality/race/politics nexus, although...
by CAP
Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:32 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: MARLENE DUMAS at Tate Modern
Replies: 1
Views: 13373

Re: Luc Tuymans - 'The Shore' @ David Zwirner London

Oops! Thanks for that Jasper!

(I’ve changed the post title to 'Zwirner London' rather than 'Zwirner NYC' for new readers) :oops:

A bit obsessed with NYC at the moment, tracking all sorts of online critical manoeuvres there... :roll:
by CAP
Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:13 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Luc Tuymans - 'The Shore' @ David Zwirner London
Replies: 2
Views: 15605

Luc Tuymans - 'The Shore' @ David Zwirner London

January 30 - April 2, 2015 I mention this show as much for the way I learned of it – via the Phaidon site , of all places – as its refreshingly modest scale. After trawling through some big public gallery blockbusters lately, it’s a relief to find some modest, human scale paintings. And there are j...
by CAP
Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:17 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Luc Tuymans - 'The Shore' @ David Zwirner London
Replies: 2
Views: 15605

Re: Myriam Holme - on floes of consciousness

Self-referential or reflexive to a fault, I find - but I'm well into the mangled look! :)

Well worth a look if you're in the Frankfurt-am-Main area. Bravo Bernhard!
by CAP
Thu Feb 12, 2015 6:20 am
 
Forum: Art press releases
Topic: Myriam Holme - on floes of consciousness
Replies: 1
Views: 6531

Trance Farmers - 'White Out'

Another awesome band name!. They also have a track called Purple Hay, appropriately, but I can’t find it now. Never mind, there’s plenty of stuff of theirs on You Tube. I link to their brilliant White Out . If Viet Cong are my absolute favourite band right now, it’s only by a gnat’s to Trance Farmer...
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:39 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Trance Farmers - 'White Out'
Replies: 0
Views: 4247

Babe Rainbow - 'Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest'

Selected purely on the strength of the band name – surely derived from Peter Blake’s famous mass- produced pin-up on tin sheeting, somewhere in the 60s. 8-)

The band has to be English!

But on Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest, almost unbearably twee... :roll:
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:28 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Babe Rainbow - 'Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest'
Replies: 0
Views: 4275

Viet Cong - 'Continental Shelf' + 'Bunker Buster' +

An odd name for a band from Calgary in the Province of Alberta, Canada, (in case there are other Provinces named Alberta that have escaped my attention). But they are just about my favourite band this fortnight! The killer track is Continental Shelf , but I throw in Silhouettes and Bunker Buster (gr...
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:14 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Viet Cong - 'Continental Shelf' + 'Bunker Buster' +
Replies: 0
Views: 4081

Hey Colossus - 'How To Tell The Time With Jesus' +

London band with a cult following it seems, renowned for their anarchy and intransigence. I’m always the last to know, of course. :( Wish I had a cult following... :cry: Fairly fractious history from what I could see , heavy on the inchoate rumbling and snarling with pounding drums – Mmm... your kin...
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:07 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Hey Colossus - 'How To Tell The Time With Jesus' +
Replies: 0
Views: 4286

Menace Beach - Two Tracks

I should research this one, but on the strength of two You Tube offerings, I’m taking them as a girlie indie rock outfit, probably from California, judging by the name.
Here’s Come On Give Up and here’s Blue Eye.

LIKE
:P
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:59 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Menace Beach - Two Tracks
Replies: 0
Views: 3770

Super Djata De Bamako - 'Konadou'

:shock:
80s Malian Mandingo music anyone?

I have my Womad moments, you know... :ugeek:
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:51 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Super Djata De Bamako - 'Konadou'
Replies: 0
Views: 3813

Mr. Oizo - 'The Church'

I’ve no idea, as usual. It’s on Brainfeeder Records, if that’s any help. And this track is A KILLER. :twisted:
There’s also a whole album bum bum to love love love.... :mrgreen:
by CAP
Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:45 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Mr. Oizo - 'The Church'
Replies: 0
Views: 3769

The Forever Now @ MoMA NYC

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World December 14, 2014–April 05, 2015 [2,856w] This show is so pathetic I didn’t think it was even worth reviewing. I am persuaded to finally address the topic by issues raised in others’ reviews and offline discussion. I can’t believe anyone ...
by CAP
Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:29 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: The Forever Now @ MoMA NYC
Replies: 2
Views: 17690

Re: The Demise of The DUMBO Arts Festival

Detroit? - That's a little extreme isn't it? :shock:
by CAP
Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:01 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: The Demise of The DUMBO Arts Festival
Replies: 3
Views: 9468

Re: The Demise of The DUMBO Arts Festival

:cry:
by CAP
Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: The Demise of The DUMBO Arts Festival
Replies: 3
Views: 9468

Alistair Gentry's CAREER SUICIDE

This one makes it here as 'Gonzo art criticism'. Particularly liked the post picking up on Jerry Saltz outing 'Wicked' Wade Guyton for fraud, basically. :lol: :!: Although, having said that: I now find that the link to Saltz's story has been cut - presumably by Vulture (New York Magazine) and not j...
by CAP
Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:45 pm
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: Alistair Gentry's CAREER SUICIDE
Replies: 0
Views: 4861

Adventures of the Black Square @ Whitechapel Gallery

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015 If you haven’t seen much hard-edge geometric abstraction lately, this might be welcome , if you have, it probably won’t be. There are so many regrettable omissions here you quickly feel ripped off. But this is not strictly a paint...
by CAP
Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:37 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Adventures of the Black Square @ Whitechapel Gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 13365

New American Paintings

A simple but useful idea - website as online exhibition for as yet unrecognised American painters . Wish there were more of these sort of sites! :) Although I haven't seen anything that really made me sit up and take notice, it seems catholic or diverse enough to sooner or later throw up a few gems....
by CAP
Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:06 am
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: New American Paintings
Replies: 0
Views: 4465

Re: CAP takes down Obrist

Sorry about that Jim - the link is working for me, for some reason (but didn't get notified of your comment, unusually...)

In any case just go to the Books Forum - Killer review of Obrist's Ways of Curating!
by CAP
Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:29 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: CAP takes down Obrist
Replies: 2
Views: 7292

More Dodgy Hit Stats

I originally called this post Google’s Dodgy Search Engine but I’ve since come to realise the problem is not really Google’s – but rather my blog host Blogspot or Blogger. I’m grumbling here about a very minor matter concerning my post on Hans Ulrich Obrist's book Ways of Curating here on WWR, here ...
by CAP
Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:55 am
 
Forum: Random Stuff
Topic: More Dodgy Hit Stats
Replies: 0
Views: 5118

Re: Simon Schama on Rembrandt

I sense an element of condescension here... :P
by CAP
Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:55 am
 
Forum: Television
Topic: Simon Schama on Rembrandt
Replies: 1
Views: 4659

Vicky Wright: 'Poor Joy's Asylum Level 71' @ Josh Lilley

An okay-ish show of large abstract emblematic paintings with the odd twist of trompe thrown in for virtuosity's sake. There is actually a bit of this sort of stuff around now, coming mainly from Germany. Wright's version is all very tasteful though, all those harmonised browns and blacks and just a...
by CAP
Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:24 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Vicky Wright: 'Poor Joy's Asylum Level 71' @ Josh Lilley
Replies: 0
Views: 12400

Mummery+Schnelle Close

Heartbreaking news to WWR readers I know... :o

But they had a few good artists (Hopkins, James, Akkerman, Stevens, Harding). They'll probably find other galleries, I expect. :)
by CAP
Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:09 am
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: Mummery+Schnelle Close
Replies: 0
Views: 4582

Dexter Dalwood @ Simon Lee

Same old graphic designer's taste in style mash-ups within a picture that we've become accustomed to... :roll: Maybe it'd be kinder to skip this sort of show . But then again, my reserves of kindness are running pretty low just now. :x It's not that the guy can't paint but that he's stuck with a ver...
by CAP
Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:57 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Dexter Dalwood @ Simon Lee
Replies: 0
Views: 12079

CAP takes down Obrist

by CAP
Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:55 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: CAP takes down Obrist
Replies: 2
Views: 7292

Hans Ulrich Obrist - Ways of Curating

Hans Ulrich Obrist – Ways of Curating (with Asad Raza) Hardcover: 192 pages No Illustrations! No Index! Allen Lane (27 Mar. 2014) ISBN-10: 1846144019 ISBN-13: 978-1846144011 The author is an eminent curator, specialising in Conceptual Art, often in interactive installations and this slim volume out...
by CAP
Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Books
Topic: Hans Ulrich Obrist - Ways of Curating
Replies: 0
Views: 9357

Re: 10:04 by Ben Lerner

Sounds like he's still a learner! :lol:
by CAP
Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:30 am
 
Forum: Books
Topic: 10:04 by Ben Lerner
Replies: 1
Views: 4977

WideWalls - Urban and Contemporary Art

A strange Swiss site , that seems to have started with an interest in graffiti or 'Street Art' and marketing and slowley absorbed more of the fine art world. A lot of American stuff featured, together with the fact that it's an English language site, makes me think it's the work of expat Yankees......
by CAP
Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:53 am
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: WideWalls - Urban and Contemporary Art
Replies: 0
Views: 6026

Re: Maggi Hambling at National Gallery

Old Maggs has been an establishment luvvie for as long as I can remember. God knows why. Back in the days of Peter Fuller’s posh-zine Modern Painters (80s) she was repeatedly granted respectable attention – before that the colour supps. At the time I assumed it was just bad taste but I now think it ...
by CAP
Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Maggi Hambling at National Gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 13307

Maps to the Stars

Vaguely interesting but ultimately flawed black comedy from notoriously errant Canadian director David Cronenberg - give it five. I only saw this because I was fed up with the pretence of Christmas shopping, the crowds, hype, and a total absence of enthusiasm, following two unexpected deaths in two ...
by CAP
Sun Dec 28, 2014 5:18 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Maps to the Stars
Replies: 0
Views: 4568

Re: Alistair Hicks - The Global Art Compass

Interesting discussion from May.

I obviously have some sympathy for Adam's views. :mrgreen:
by CAP
Sat Dec 27, 2014 2:19 pm
 
Forum: Books
Topic: Alistair Hicks - The Global Art Compass
Replies: 1
Views: 10608

The Drop

This is not bad, a modest but effective gangland thriller, certainly the best thing I’ve seen Tom Hardy in, although I haven’t seen a lot of his TV work. I give it 6. Set in Brooklyn, NY, it has a Belgian director (Michaël R. Roskam), a British male lead (Hardy), a Swedish female lead (Noomi Rapace)...
by CAP
Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:53 pm
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Drop
Replies: 0
Views: 4840

Slaves - Where's Your Car, Debbie?

I know this is kind of trashy Post Punk... :roll:

But there's a place for that in my heart! :lol:

Here they are doing Beauty Quest live :twisted:
by CAP
Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:07 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Slaves - Where's Your Car, Debbie?
Replies: 0
Views: 3721

Re: Neo Rauch: ‘At the Well’ @ David Zwirner NYC

I've since come across Tom McGlynn's review on Brooklyn Rail which is a bit verbose but at least goes beyond paraphrasing the Zwirner press release, which is what most online reviews have been. :|
by CAP
Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Neo Rauch: ‘At the Well’ @ David Zwirner NYC
Replies: 1
Views: 14679

Alistair Hicks - The Global Art Compass

ALISTAIR HICKS - The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21st Century Art. Thames & Hudson 2014 232 pages 150 illustrations 131 in colour ISBN 978-0-500-23919-3 [2,892w] The book is a general introduction to contemporary art, organizing works geographically as well as according to social and ...
by CAP
Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:02 pm
 
Forum: Books
Topic: Alistair Hicks - The Global Art Compass
Replies: 1
Views: 10608

ARTPULSE Magazine.com

Another contemporary art zine - this one quarterly as a hard copy. Reviews, from what I can see, considered and reasonably lengthy....

Give it 8! :)
by CAP
Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:59 am
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: ARTPULSE Magazine.com
Replies: 0
Views: 4236

Re: Jonas Burgert: Stück Hirn Blind @ Blain|Southern

Burgert's taste in phantasmagoria reminded me a bit of Cuban painter, Roberto Fabelo - this example , Baroque Seafront 2012. Fabelo is actually an older generation - even older than Rauch - but his grotesquerie strikes me as kind of Germanic , ;) Or how about this guy, Dan Witz? - a Brooklyn based v...
by CAP
Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:28 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Jonas Burgert: Stück Hirn Blind @ Blain|Southern
Replies: 1
Views: 15310
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