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FRIEZE WRITERS PRIZE deadline june 23

From:     ed
Category: Art
Date:     02 May 2008
Time:     05:32 AM

Review:

http://re-title.typepad.com/opportunities/2008/05/frieze-writers.html

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Arnolfini Torsten Lauschmann

From:     Flot sum
Category: Art
Date:     28 April 2008
Time:     04:29 PM

Review:

Torsten Lauschmann made an animation using numbers to make a face that speaks the words of Pal 
Erdos, its quite watch able in part because it is funny and the voice is pleasant. Some feet on film 
dance on a ball that is really there, ok beautiful thing to have in the back ground but no need to look 
closer. Well there is other bits and pieces but……..

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maoz falafel old compton street london

From:     foodie
Category: Consumer
Date:     28 April 2008
Time:     05:46 AM

Review:

http://www.maozveg.com/

The interesting thing about falafel is that it isn't very interesting. It's the big salad bar and the sauces 
that taste good. The falafel is sort of a dry grainy fried pellet. But this place offers a meal (drink, falafel 
and refill salad, and chips) for £4.90 in soho, and that is good value when a beer can cost more at the 
coach and horses (hoegarden over £5). One member of staff is quite rude in a friendly way, but some 
of our constrained Enlgish cousins can take this humour the wrong way. The red cabbage and little 
pickled aubergine type things are good, and you need to soak the falafel in green chilli and coriander 
and maybe some garlic sauce or tahini. One feels a little shy about going up to the salad bar for 
repeats, but don't fear if you have the big meal it's perfectly legal. 

If the thing that formed the basis of this vaguely nutritional meal was better (say lamb or even fried 
mexican bean burgers) than it would be truely delicious, at the moment it is just an oasis of okness for 
cashstarved non meat eaters.

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banksy paints tunnel, street art festival

From:     banksy watch
Category: Art
Date:     02 May 2008
Time:     09:21 AM

Review:

http://www.thecansfestival.com/

http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1314733,00.html

so is this done with permission? guess it might have been. it's hard to get excited about the art, even 
if the spirit of a free outdoor exhibition is admirable. the problem is the usually simplistic images and 
graphics. the equivalent of a magazine cover.

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Times Token Offer Meals, 3 courses for £10

From:     Remi
Category: Consumer
Date:     29 April 2008
Time:     05:58 PM

Review:

When they started these about ten years ago, you could get a decent variety of restaurants. Unusual 
hotel places served by double Dutch waiters. But now the restaurants are just created to be in the 
offer, and have the same priced menu as the token deal, or worse. So what's the point. However, one 
fine restaurant still stands strong and offers its above tenner food to enthusiastic broadsheet readers: 
Greig's. In Mayfair. Pronounced like the Norwegian composer. The Times should do the decent thing 
and give this steak/salmonhouse free advertising in its pages and dispense with the other 
restaurants.

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duchamp picabia and man ray at the tate modern

From:     art reviews
Category: Art
Date:     23 April 2008
Time:     02:18 PM

Review:

Voyage to the temple of doom.  It all looks so OLD. Whimsy by  white MEN in suits. Maybe it was 
shocking at the time/ maybe it wasn't. Picabia, loved by every young male painter, for the reason that 
he did some nudey pictures which are MUCH worse in reality, just not that clever or cool.  Duchamp 
only gets it going for his dirty peephole piece recreated here, sexual violence keeps its frisson. Man 
Ray nice name, forgettable art. Nice stroll through artefacts.

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Re: duchamp picabia and man ray at the tate modern

From:     
Category: Art
Date:     28 April 2008
Time:     04:10 PM

Review:

I made the mistake of reading some feminist texts before venturing in to this show, hardly the reading 
material to encourage my appreciation of this macho mix. I find it astonishing that in the comments on 
the wall there is not even a mention of the sexism that pervades this show. There is not even the 
tiniest criticism of the endless objectification of women and what that meant at that time. I know that 
there is no escaping sexism in art history, as in history itself, but given that the comments mention 
visits to prostitutes etc. this education the tate gives us accepts all. If things had changed enough - if 
our attitudes to women had changed significantly - the tate would find it necessary to explain the odd 
approach to these other human beings/women as seen in the lives of these artists and their art. In fact 
they remind me of footballers all having sex with the same woman together, and as with them one 
wonders why they, in their self love, don't just cut out the middle (wo)man. The fact is we haven't 
changed much, we all see, whether we like it or not, through their white male eyes and no explanation 
is needed.

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Germaine Greer on the Miley Cyrus Annie Leibovitz furore...

From:     art news
Category: Art
Date:     30 April 2008
Time:     02:38 PM

Review:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2276876,00.html

she make some good points about double standards.

Somehow it all seems to link to the Austrian cellar, the perverse interest in the perverse, the sordid 
longing for the worst and most revolting things possible to be possible. The eternal human 
schadenfreude.

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National portrait gallery london

From:     helen goodcraft
Category: Art
Date:     25 April 2008
Time:     03:47 PM

Review:

The National Portrait Gallery is full of portraits. Some of the people are famous. Some of the people 
were famous. Some of the portraits are by artists, some by good portrait painters, and some by what 
passes for portrait painters these days. WHy do we need a portrait gallery? Can;t they just put the 
good ones in the national gallery, or is a bad painting of a famous person interesting? That is the big 
question about the NPG. And the answer is sort of.  There is an exhibition about bluestockings which 
has one good portrait of a woman with long nose. Is it interesting to see bad portraits of 
interesting/underrepresented women? Sort of.

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Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem , A report on the Banality of Evil

From:     book reviews
Category: Books
Date:     24 April 2008
Time:     09:14 PM

Review:

I had fallen asleep too often reading her book on totalitarianism therefore avoided this book which 
launched the famous phrase. 

It is brilliant. Full of scathing angry intelligence. One of most illuminating books on the holocaust, it 
shakes the heavy layers of rhetoric and cliche off the event, and confronts you again with the fresh 
huge depressing questions that it asks. Precise thoughts on justice and guilt. To take one small 
example she says of post-war young germans feeling guilt that is an easy sentimental emotion (aren't 
I virtuous for feeling guilty when I havent done anything) , and more appropriate would have been 
anger with their elders who had accepted former Nazis back into government and had failed (in the 
twenty years after the war) to acknowledge their generation's knowledge and complicity in the 
holocaust. 

She puts it better! Anyway read the book.

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