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My dad said he liked the slapstick so I gave it a try, it's moderately funny in places but a bit repetitive and not much happens, and not in a good Seinfeldish way. Can''t anyone write a funny plot, non cliched characters, and not faux flyonthewall reality, sitcom. Come on funny people!

There is a beautful hand coloured one by the Lumiere Bros of a swriling skirt dance. Not too keen, myself on mangatoystorydisney stuff, but the show is a maze of light on screens, you feel the flicker magical flicker of the century turning.

Most of her books have the same setting, Europe between the wars, and people, her mother young husband, fancy french folk who drive too fast, Aldous Huxley. Autobiograpical. Yes. Beautiful. Yes. Some might find too rarefied and posh, but they give joy to the bones.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8565968/Clive-James-on...-Rubicon-and-David-McCallum.html

remember when he was on tc in the 80s, breaking up... a sentence... like this... its enough to make you nostalgic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/10/cecily-brown-review

Surly gives an unusually hostile review for some reason

facebook setting are peculiar and hard to find..

Youngish South African artist continues good run at the cube. Very nicely enstalled, and the videos are entrancing and somewhat magical . Upstairs there is some crap to sell.

Have you made this book up as well as this exchange!?

The site is getting 150,000 hits a month but I am not sure how many actual real readers that is!

Not the second one out now. The first one, available for 1.99 a night from redbox in tescos! I was curious about this after reading praise for it in the New Yorker. It starts pretty well but meanders into silly violence and the like, and the conceit of the lost night not cannot be sustained. However...

hmmm... Your postscript made me feel blue. But t aint that bad out there. The suckups and careerists will suck and career on, and artists will keep trying.

rave review:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/venice-biennale/8548679/Venice-Biennale-2011-Mike-Nelson-British-Pavilion-review.html

I would have liked to keep the old format, but the very old frontpage forum software kept breaking down. I did my best to find a solution but none was to be found. So we had to move to this ugly look. In ten years time it will look interesting.

Everyone's been going mad for tracey lately. Oh well why not, let's just think of her as an artist for a moment. The start of her show at the Hayward is stunning. Quilts on the wall with their cries and slogans, like feminist 70s art or community projects. They are double hung next to the beach hut ...

Kirsten dunst face is classic, poor actresses they have to humour this idiot (genius) wanker.

http://www.tampabay.com/components/video/lars-von-trier-i-understand-hitler/949106326001

https://greatbritons.ba.com/about_paint
this is funny

Magical and entrancing. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388179/Rare-Library-Congress-colour-photographs-Great-Depression.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8517013/Tracey-Emin-Love-Is-What-You-Want-Hayward-Gallery-review.html The congniscenti all love Tracey the tory now. Shame she had to go from interestingly provocative to establishment, but guess it figures. Conversion to conservativism could be on...

This is particularly good. I am worried it is going out of circulation as I couldn't find it in tescos the other day. It actually tastes better than real coffee. Rounded, coffeeish, and tasty. The trick to instant coffee is adding just a teaspoon.

George was in the year above me at the RCA. I've always liked his paintings, they depict those crappy bits of places that aren't normally painted, and take you back to looking at them, and make you think of his paintings when you do. Those things like paints in humbrol cos liked airfix, are the sort...

disclaimer: these guys are my friends! http://www.thecentreofattention.org/ They gave a talk to about 10-15 people which i caught the end of. Something about photographing normal people reenacting photos of current events in the newspaper. They seemed to want to make art accessible, gary, who with p...

http://www.artfinder.com/

Read puff piece in the guardian... can't see any immediate point to this.

[urlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/8493172/Turner-Prize-2011-shortlist-the-nominees-are-all-ontop-form.html][/url] [urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/04/turner-prize-shortlist-2011-announced][/url] good or bad?The painters, George Shaw and Karla Black, are joine...

Another sky atlantic buy from HBO which makes the best tv besides madmen. If they can do it why not the BBC. This is not amazing but witty enough in a kind of wes anderson meets some other quirky type of US telly which you feel you've seen before.

Gabriel Byrne is excellent in this HBO show, on sky atlantic. Therapy reduced from 55mins to 24 mins. But just two people talking is excellent, like a play of course, but doesn't seem stagey. Byrne is particularly good because he seems both grumpy and nervy and sympathetic. Don't buy sky to watch it...

good points well put mr cap

Miro, not quite top quality painter. I liked the early ones in naive style of farms and animals. I liked the big ones where he draws a line on a huge orange picture. I liked the late ones where he burnt the canvas. He really was quite good. But they are perhaps a bit stiff. What if he had never gone...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world

sweet really, pity amis jr has developed a deranged version amis sr's more ironic politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/21/elif-batuman-bestseller-life

Her book sounds good.

like wire. boring, and I couldn't manage a whole one!

like

most people can't tell the difference between red and white wine when served at the same temperature either... However amusing this is for oneupping snobs, in fact most people are stupid and can't tell the difference between good art and bad either, or in fact the difference between a good life and ...

updike takes on fundamentalism with his usual tropes. Mohsin hamid starts with his own background of pakistan and princeton and goes from there. Hamid is no updike. And updike was a young guy once seeking ultimate truths. So updike wins on prose and empathy. Hamids book once it leaves management con...

http://www.thewappingproject.com/ How stupid is this website, I failed to get to any useful info and gave up, perhaps I am dumb, but shouldn't the design allow you to find some basic info about the gallery? The show is massive indoor paddling pool in the dark with a dress by Yohji Yamamoto hanging ...

clicking on the holes is fun

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2011/03/28/110328_audioslideshow_japan
some good work

http://www.cracked.com/article_19121_7-basic-things-you-wont-believe-youre-all-doing-wrong.html
i told you so

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/30/arts-council-funding-cuts It's very sad, and also hard to feel sad about. The general cuts, and the awful crapness of a Tory govt, outweigh sympathy for my own kind (artists?). Or is it just that arts funding (worthy though it is) feels very far from ar...

is this not a press release

Yes. It's a minor sadness that Woody got crap.

Rockwell attracted the Saturday crowds to Dulwich picture gallery, mostly old and well off, they were not marching anywhere except to a lovely little cafe for a cappucino. Rockwell was a decent illustrator in a way which defines cliched Americana. End of story. Stupid people think they are really go...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/mar/25/east-london-cheap-eats-restaurants

Stoopid, overpriced stuff in expensive rests most of this. Did this guy just use google to write this?

http://twitter.com/alexandreholder

I may be missing something in your ironic tone, but alex is a woman!

A major classic. Not. SO dumb and so silly, trying to be its a wonderful life or something old fashioned like that... you see there's these angels and they make sure fate happens and what if they tried to stop the hero (MATT DAMON) falling in love with this sexy sassy British gal (Emily Blunt), yeh,...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/21/mills-and-boon-art-portrait

saw this story in found copy of the sun this morning and in metro. in what way is recreation of cliched sexist imagery like this appropriate for international womens day?

I like to have a recrudescence..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)

Is it real? Does it matter? Facebook faking film, really quite watchable. The doofussy guys who made the film seem more empty ( harder to know whether they are human) than the gothicky small towners they turn their focus on.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jan-gossaerts-renaissance Dunno about the title. It's kind of like Ross Kemp's Renaissance. You think what?!? The show was empty which was good for me and bad for the NG. It was kinda boring but also kinda interesting if you hung round a while ...

hi CAP, this category is for regular updates like blogs, so once you start a thread on your life please continue within same thread...

wasnt there a film greenburg