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So long Jasper

The African theme reminded me of Saatchi's Pangaea shows . The push in African and Latin American markets maybe a hedge against the overhyped mainstream, like Zombie Formalism . I agree Genocchio is basically a conservative influence, but this may be the times and the market. Any sense or rumours of...

This is a tough one - Oscar Murillo? Carol Bove? Michael Riedel?... Spoilt for choice really, but after due consideration I'm giving it to west coast fart, James Welling for his lame photograms. Why would you show this when you've got Ruff?

Overrated? Doesn't begin to cover it!

Excellent comprehensive report NYC_C - I feel like I was there! It's a shame it's so clumsy to add images to WWR posts - I'm sure you've a phone full . But for a few pictures of the show here's the Hyperallergic review , which does have illustrations. ;) We cover too little of the installation and v...

Okay it's a crappy old video transferred to digital but it is the genius that was Fahey and it is LIVE (sob)

I came across this You Tube surfing. It's a panel discussion held at L.A. Louver gallery in Los Angeles a few years ago, in remembrance of Ron Kitaj and as prelude to a small show of his late works - which look great incidentally! A few years ago I was disappointed with the late 'washy' approach, bu...

Basically, an old fashioned ‘woman’s movie’ or ‘weepie’, appropriately set in old-fashioned times; 1952 to be exact. The story is driven by twinned themes of Irish migration and marriage as job or career, handled with a certain restraint and exquisite production values. This one manages to be both d...

‘Post-critical’ is one way to describe the kind of writing on art that has to some extent replaced criticism in the mainstream press. For the most part it patently regurgitates press releases, themselves a drastically simplified version of the catalogue essay, or what remains of the catalogue essay ...

Depressingly dull assortment . Everyone here can certainly paint, but essentially display timid or conservative attitudes. Life measured out in teaspoons and so on. Most of this is just illustration and averge illustration at that. That undoubtedly says something about the judges and the scope and ...

You're right Jim: she's a bit of a dribbler.

Basically this is Leonardo DiCaprio does A Man Called Horse . It drags on though, quite literally and I give it just six mainly for the wonderful scenery. Lenny plays Hugh Glass, one of those hybrid figures, half frontiersman, half injun, we’re familiar with from Little Big Man to Dances with Wolves...

A useful site for reviews and all things Los Angeles art world. I think it accepts open submissions but it also has a long list of contributing critics/artists and a comprehensive list of galleries and addresses (plus directions) for the famously sprawling city.

It's pretty slick.

An odd little show by the grand old Californian master, featuring discarded mattresses around L.A. It sounds like the kind of thing he once would have documented with photographs in a little booklet but these days he turns the photos into pencil and wash drawings for some reason. They work. He stil...

1) HANS ULRICH OBRIST– Ways of Curating 2) THOMAS RUFF 2015 3) FRANK STELLA: A Retrospective 2015 4) ZOMBIE FORMALISM: Abstraction Revisited 5) THE FOREVER NOW @ MoMA NYC I haven’t written that much this year, having concentrated more on my art. Looking around at other people’s lists, I can only co...

The above post now duly corrected.

Thanks for that Jim!

The readership soars!

... Alla Docious?

This is a German movie from 2014 directed by Christian Petzold that everyone warned me off as ‘holocaust porn’ or ‘holocaust chic’ (or perhaps ‘chic holocaust porn’?) but I saw it anyway and it wasn’t that holocausty, but I struggled with the central credibility gap that the lead character, Nelly Le...

I’m recommending this one on the strength of a single JPEG , courtesy of a Re-title feed, for its scorching palette and slurpy, casual handling. As it turns out, the work is by a young Egyptian artist, participating in a modest group show in Cairo, which makes it all the better for our worldwide amb...

Rambling and gossipy account of America’s prime art gross-out, all very readable and amusing. Interestingly, Schachter notes the decline in so-called Zombie Formalism around the fair (something Jason Farago in The Guardian also noted) and the stalling prices for Lucien Smith, Israel Lund and Christ...

Alternatively, David Sylvester’s book, Looking at Giacometti (Pimlico 1994) is a good appreciation of the artist.

And Giacometti’s famous portrait of Sylvester is off-centre in pose and placement, the sitter’s gaze somewhat to the right of frame.

Okay, the artist has recently died and this is a hasty tribute - largely one suspects at the behest of Luc Tuymans - but, frankly it is 100% cack. With all due respect for the recently deceased, de Keyser may be slightly interesting as a precedent and model for Tuymans, in the Minimalist diffidence ...

I know you've probably been guessing about these for a while now, so let me put your minds at rest -

1 - Run Run Run (LIVE!)
2 - Love Sikk
3 - I Was Alone
4 - She Suits Me
5 - Salt Turns Into Sugar
6 - I Wanna Kill You
7 - I'm Losing You

The mindless Meredith Mendelsohn on Fartsy launches into some blatant hype in the cause of the sorry Frank Stella: 'A Retrospective' at The Whitney Museum (review here ) only to demonstrate a blithe indifference to the notion of influence. She, mostly at the behest of co-curator of the survey, Micha...

This article also appears on CAP'S CRITS where it has the advantage of opening links in separate windows (making it easier to toggle between text and illustration rather than linking back and forth). [5,256w] I wrote briefly about the artist in 2007 , unfortunately links to illustrations there are ...

This is okayish.
Trendy Melbourne painter of trippy drippy visions. Big on the stain-reading thing. Has an interesting website as well.
Not great but if you're doing the rounds, a rare opportunity to find something vaguely interesting at Beers.

A great site - and sight for public murals or 'street art'.

One of my favourites.

Thanks Martin, I've amended the above text accordingly.

They both have nice hair.

Your best review yet.

Which is Portuguese for CAP is God , they tell me, anyway likeable girl trio from, well, Portugal, I'm guessing, There's a few things on You Tube, this, their single , and some sort of live session that goes on a bit, chaotically. I find this kind of thing refreshing after a long day's pontificating...

Again - I'm blank just now but the DJ kept pronouncing their name as Mon Comf , which amused me but this is all heavy reverb on a shuddering stomp, heavy on the triumphant desolation filter - just the way we like it! :twisted: The name - 'Moonhead' in German - naturally does not denote a German band...

A pretty heavy band I know nothing about as yet, while I find out listen to their I Lost You or To Fix The Gash in Your Head . 8-) Okay so they're a New York-based trio with a Wiki page been around since about 2002 so vets really. Actually they might be vets in their day jobs.... it doesn't say.... :|

Cool dance beats for driving and stuff. This is the Axelk Boman remix, I think.

12 October - 14 November Flood at Shav’s : what are we to make of this? It’s his second outing here actually. Flood is mostly known for his politically astute text pieces alternating with essentially a decorative sensibility that toys with digital compression, stencils derived from old shawls and o...

The world goes poop, more like

17 September – 14th November 2015 Here we are, striking out in new directions again, this time in the wake of Frieze overkill and somehow ending up at Gimpel Fils, of all places. But sometimes it’s better not to crave too much, expect miracles from marketing and instead persevere with a little more...

'Sun by appointment' -

This article also appears on CAP'S CRITS where it has the advantage of opening links in separate windows (making it easier to toggle between text and illustration rather than linking back and forth). [5,385w] The artist is famously the most detached and technically inclined of the Dusseldorf School...

I’m recommending this one pretty much on the strength of one JPG – and a pretty crappy ‘installation view’ at that. I blame the gallery. The show just closed at Le Consortium in Dijon, a respectable provincial venue covering music as well as fine art, picking up its share of second-tier trendies lik...

This, from a couple of years ago but even so, proving the old devil still HAS IT!

The sort of loose art fair really, you have before you get into the more elite art fairs around Berlin. Autumn - huge art market time in old Berlin town. Smell the money, wonder about the economy. :| Mostly predictable crap of course and kilometre upon kilometre of the stuff - do we really need anot...

R.A. = Rather Awful

Minimal Swiss site with English translations of their reviews and interviews. They insist on their critical independence and generally seem worthwhile.

After taking a break over summer to work on my own stuff, I thought I’d ease back into writing with a quick roundup of exhibitions for the past few months or so. Not too much research, just a few observations. I was vaguely keeping an eye on things or maybe they just sort of seeped through while I t...

A modest French thriller based on a 1964 novel by Georges Simenon (best known for his Inspector Maigret series) of the same name – I probably wouldn’t have bothered with this except that it was directed and stars Mathieu Amalric, whose previous similarly credited feature La Tournée , I liked quite a...

Too Latino

Wot - no links to online examples?

CAP is in his hammock and a thousand dreams away....

Some fairly elementary points offered in this Artbusiness.com article , but worth going through all the same. 1) Deal with interested parties in person not online. 2) Read the fine print - look for the loop holes - as the uncredited Artbusiness writer emphasises, often enticing offers do not initial...