Preview: A Horse Walks Into A Bar at Castlefield Gallery
Exhibition: A Horse Walks Into A Bar, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, June 18 – August 8 2010 That a non-domestic animal in a pub should occasion hilarity tells us something about our relationship...
View ArticleReview: Mark Leckey and Martin McGeown – The Life and Times of Milton Keynes...
Image courtesy Milton Keynes Gallery Exhibition: Mark Leckey and Martin McGeown: Life and Times of Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, until June 27 2010 900 Midsummer...
View ArticleArt must-sees for the month: June
With surrealism and sound, fauna and flesh, there is much to tempt you indoors this June. Here’s some monthly highlights for contemporary art written for Culture24. Cage Mix: Sculpture and Sound,...
View ArticleWhitstable Biennale/Persistence of Vision/Wolfgang Tillmans
Here’s another round up of my week’s output for Culture24. Happy reading… Review: Lucienne Cole, Karen Mirza & Ruth Beale, Phil Coy and Alex Pearl at Whitstable Biennale Preview: Persistence of...
View ArticleDiane Arbus/Chicks on Speed/Arabicity/July must-sees
Here’s another round up of stories written in the past week for Culture24: Preview: Diane Arbus – Artist Rooms, Nottingham Contemporary Preview: Chicks on Speed – Don’t Art, Fashion, Music, Dundee...
View ArticleThe The Thing Is (For 3)/Harry Hammond/Luna Park/August must-sees/Top 10 art...
Here’s a round up of work for Culture24 in the last week or so. Feel free to peruse: Preview: The The Thing Is (For 3) at Milton Keynes Gallery Preview: Harry Hammond – Halfway to Paradise, Leamington...
View ArticleIsabella Niven, Most Days You Will See A Pigeon (2010)
The pigeon is an unlikely emblem of civic pride. They are not lions or liver birds. They confer no distinction. Even towns have them. Even some villages. But Milton Keynes is no ordinary place. Unlike...
View ArticleHala Elkoussy, Al-Khawaga and Johnny Stories (2011)
A film in the back room tells the story of Sein, who seems to be in perpetual flight around the city of Cairo. In piecing together her story, the artist may also be piecing together ours. Like Sein,...
View ArticleMocksim, Contra-Invention (2010)
To those who say, I could have done that when faced with contemporary art, here is a project that you really could have done. The catalogue provides instructions. Mocksim’s show comprised some 200...
View ArticleDavid Dawson, Mirror in Studio (2004)
Like many a good artist’s studio, that of Lucian Freud required a mirror. And when David Dawson was in the studio it would have become a rich metaphor. Freud‘s longterm assistant was also a painter....
View ArticleSean Smith, Swindon, 1994
(c) Sean Smith This surely isn’t a complete picture of Swindon in the 1990s. And the town’s name sits at a variance with many of the other locations where Sean Smith has been to work. A current show in...
View ArticleASCO, Asco (1975)
© 1975 Harry Gamboa Jr Patti Smith, writing in her memoir Just Kids, says that by walking a city you can come to own the very streets. She and lover Robert Mapplethorpe attempted and achieved as much...
View ArticleJakob Dahlgren, Peinture abstraite (2001 – present)
Artists often go too far. Sometimes it can seem that any art worth its salt has to do just that, to show some form of excess, to do something inordinately repetitive, or of course skilled. Jakob...
View ArticleAmore e Piombo @ Brighton Photo Biennial 2014
The years of lead (or anni di piombo for you Italian speakers) lasted from the late 60s to the early 80s. Thanks to festivals in Venice and the anni di amore are still in full effect. As a result this...
View ArticleClue: Cold, Stefano Amoretti and Mino Tristovskij (2014-present)
Long after his death, forensic photographer Luigi Tomellini has become an ‘artist’. Producer Stefano Amoretti and photographer Mino Tristovskij have put him in a book and a show. This could not have...
View ArticleOur City, How Do We Look? @ BPB2016
Brighton Photo Biennial 2016 will look at the way photography fosters our understanding of style, the body, gender and subcultures. It is arguably the biggest visual art event on the city’s calendar,...
View ArticleMocksim, Contra-Invention (2010)
To those who say, I could have done that when faced with contemporary art, here is a project that you really could have done. The catalogue provides instructions. Mocksim’s show comprised some 200...
View ArticleDavid Dawson, Mirror in Studio (2004)
Like many a good artistâ€s studio, that of Lucian Freud required a mirror. And when David Dawson was in the studio it would have become a rich metaphor. Freud‘s longterm assistant was also a...
View ArticleSean Smith, Swindon, 1994
(c) Sean Smith This surely isnâ€t a complete picture of Swindon in the 1990s. And the townâ€s name sits at a variance with many of the other locations where Sean Smith has been to work. A current show...
View ArticleASCO, Asco (1975)
© 1975 Harry Gamboa Jr Patti Smith, writing in her memoir Just Kids, says that by walking a city you can come to own the very streets. She and lover Robert Mapplethorpe attempted and achieved as much...
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