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Found a short antisemitic rant of his in library ( he got better after war).. Besides the awful, he is still fresh and full of life, and contemporary. Forget the repuatation and read the books. Especially The Rosy crucifixion series.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11989 Seen this before, but went again, if you were to watch all the films you'd be there for ever and ever. I may have said this before. There were two films which stood out. One by Run Wrake made up of old kids book illustrations that was ...

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Not bad, wanted to see Apes, but they were sold out. The kids are good, and it's all very knowing ET, until they get to the usual CGI Alien which is a bit dull, and the end is all nasty huggy, but dynamic and somewhat beautifully told in moving images.

Finally read this after long search. Found in Hackney Library. Libraries are great, there's like loads of books, all free to borrow.

Not fabled masterpiece, but ok, antidote to great gatsby!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/17/edward-st-aubyn-interview
in which the journo hates the posh writer

I really enjoyed this film. Perhaps cos I liked the blue stumpies as a kid. The plot is strong, Gargamel chases them round but never gets them permanently. Like tom and jerry. The 3D was better than Avatar, sill mainly like stage flats, but the smurfs themselves seemed real enough to make you forget...

fantastic (not) fox was awful and the one about indian train was terrible too. perhaps he's gone woodyallen

CONVERSE AND DAZED & CONFUSED ANNOUNCE ARTISTS SHORTLIST FOR THE CONVERSE/DAZED 2011 EMERGING ARTISTS AWARD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY LONDON August 15, 2011 – Converse and Dazed & Confused announce the five shortlisted artists chosen for the Converse/Dazed 2011 Emerging Art...

richard long and giuseppe penone show the usual dull stuff thrown into the oversize galleries. somehow this place eats up art and I havent seen one good show here. some of long's mud is ok.

Free (cos no borrows). Which is good. Before the Leonardo madness a concise logical informative show. Especially good is being able to see the backs of the altarpieces, there is simple rough craftsman's beauty to their rears. Also to the modern eye the scraps of liberated paintings are more beautifu...

Had to start coming here because they closed the red box kiosk in my local tescos. Problem is no silly comedies and not much recent Hollywood. More for your fassbinder trendies. It's like the reverse of the old fashioned video shop, (all junk and a few sexy foreigners was the norm in the glory days)...

One of my fave films of the last decade, a million times better than other wessy films. It is beguiling, entertaining, beautiful, and moving. With lovely detail.

still stands up as minor 80s classic but Matthew broderick IS annoying..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0134pn9/Rick_Steins_Spain_Episode_4/

extremely mildly enjoyable way of numbing your brain for 59 minutes. Better than a holiday and cheaper.

yeh, agreed. Liked that Gallery thing by cindy shermans boyfriend too... I will talk to some people, maybe we can do it here!

distant distant jaffe. joffe

the show improves the more messy the house gets

I know some of the people in the show at the steadily improving arch 402. There is some subtle painting and OTT (a good thing) scuptures and many events and film screenings around this. I am too stupid and lazy to connect it all up but you might have fun doing so..

weird new type of spam, quite poetic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=British%20Masters Edmund WHite writes that students like literary critics who have a strong simplistic theory and use the word great a lot. Dr Fox is the art equivalent. He throws around unsupported claims of greatness for minor painters Alfred Munnings and co....

This show is too small, good paintings are always worth seeing, but there are only about 2 here. I wasn't interested in the back story and wanted to see more paintings. This is a show for boffins who don't like paintings. Interestingly pictures I thought were pastel are actually oil paint. Like Van ...

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Hi Gang, I really think the point of Matthew Colling's facebook is to make fast directr responses to how paintings LOOK, and it's not a bad place to do that... FB is a public forum more than a private place, and good for discussing politics and art.. WWR is more specialist and open to more thorough ...

Hi Feather, do post your reviews here and on your blog!

Enjoyed seeing Tim Marlowe talking to Waldemar Januslazk, it was such a sucky meeting (mainly Tim sucking). The work is depresssing and negative, some hipsters chuckled at kids with animals faces and swastikas on their uniforms, and pseudo modern art made of junk and african sculptures, some paintin...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8619660/Cy-Twombly-American-abstract-painter-dies-aged-83.html

Sad of course. Scribbly painter with good moments, lived nice life in Italy.

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the full version is funnier, and doesn;t seem to have been published most places!

sister! I didn't feel i had to declare this as part of full disclosure as the last name gives it away

(disclosure: another friend) Saw this show on a quiet afternoon so got to spend plenty of time gazing at the paintings.I always feel uncomfortable hanging round too long in commercial galleries which is bad. Cumberland circles are beautiful, relying partly on an ablity to fill space with attractive ...

Peter Haris (conflict of interest alert he's a friend of mine) shows his weird stand up comedy routine, which seems appropriate for one of the funniest people I know in real life. Unfortunately I did'nt watch the video because it was at an opening and noisy and I wanted a beer etc etc etc. I like th...

Join a library they have free books, and you can browse them in real life. A Love Out of Nothing/Sohara’s Journey by Barbara Honigmann, a writer I had never heard of were pretty good, post war Jewish life from a woman's angle which is quite different from a lot of male writers I have read on the sub...

HI CAP and AR. It's nice to hear what people like in alive painting. I'll have a go myself too. I look forward to shows by Chris Ofili, Peter Doig, Stuart Cumberland, Tal R, Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Meese, Chantal Joffe, James Jessop & Harry Pye (both good friends), Ceciley Brown, Alex Katz, Malcol...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kk4wc/Feasts_India/ all the shite cliches.. I am going to on a journey... can I cook one of those pooris... look at the class divide at a super rich wedding (uh it's the same in UK)... why do we have to watch an ignoramus learn some stuff you could find on wik...

thanks, that a bit clearer!

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I liked his paintings when I saw a few. Loads of them were boring. Lots of scatty detail flicked on in a drawing with paint style. Weird stuff you see on posters or t-shirts. Disappointing.

bzzzzz, hss, a transistor radio is attached to a piece of string which moves a needle on a speaker. Lot of men nerds hanging round here. Precious show of all the cliches of sound art. A piano made of loo roll etc etc.

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well put sir. Interestingly the subject of the post looks like the spam we delete daily.

Good on you Kapoor, for actually boycotting china over weiwei.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100092307/china-and-ai-weiwei-britains-art-establishment-is-about-to-walk-into-a-minefield/

reviewed most topics. it's that easy. have a good. being critical makes things better.

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both responsive and good for sending news of your art projects.

Terrible. The quite good film of before repeated play by play in Bangkok. And now the characters even are self consciously aware that they are repeating themselves. And why are we meant to like rapist Mike Tyson? The film is racist and sexist enough without the cherry on the cake of Tyson. The beard...