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Nancy Fouts show extended until end of July. A must see. 52 Oakley Square, NW1
Archives: Posted: 2009
BBC puts art online
People still struggle to see the internet as a platform for creativity. This comes partly from the bespectacled Silicon Valley dwelling stereotype that is yet to be completely shrugged off, but also comes from the very real damage caused as digital availability and transfer tore through some creative industries......

Posted: Jan 30 2009 | More...

Giles Ripley screening at Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery
Giles Ripley will be screening his film 'Bill' tonight at the Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery in Shoreditch. It will be showing alongside a selection of other videos as part of the 'Sensitive Material' exhibition. 'Sensitive Material' is now in its third year and it is dedicated to expanding and......

Posted: Jan 28 2009 | More...

Voo Doo in Soho
The Riflemaker continues its strong run of exhibitions with 'Voo Doo', further proof that this small venue is becoming a potent force in London's art scene since launch in 2004. When I visited yesterday the curator was busy stapling a curtain of gaudy tinsel over the doorway in preparation for......

Posted: Jan 28 2009 | More...

Visual Music at the Tate Modern
Art has the power to inhabit a space in a way that can feel more than visual. A friend who went to see Rothko's Seagram Murals at the Tate Modern on a deserted mid-week morning described a low hum filling the rooms. When I went on a weekend soon......

Posted: Jan 27 2009 | More...

Some great shows for the coming week
This Tuesday 27th harbors the private view of a show at the Alan Cristea Gallery on Cork Street titled (all be it rather uninspiring) 'Young Contemporaries'. This should be an interesting show. It runs for a whole month and exhibits the work of four artists all under the age......

Posted: Jan 26 2009 | More...

Sweet Toof and Martin Lea Brown
Sweet Toof and Martin Lea Brown unleashed some striking new urban inflected work on the capital last night. Street art tramping the hallowed grounds of fine art is nothing new, but this joint show appealed to me a lot more than, say, Banksy's brand of 'wink wink d'you geddit'......

Posted: Jan 23 2009 | More...

Merdre!
Communication of academic research was the reason the Internet began; long before it became the commercial entity of the nineties, it was a means of free exchange of research on transatlantic scientific programs under the name the Arpanet. Hard to imagine it in the face of its massive scope......

Posted: Jan 22 2009 | More...

Education, Education, Education
Prominent YBA Gavin Turk recently lambasted art teaching in the UK for being unimaginative and overly academic - focusing on a mechanical and esoteric version of creativity. This put me in mind of own my experience with institutionalised art creation, a relationship quashed at AS level with the insistence that......

Posted: Jan 20 2009 | More...

The week ahead 19/1/2009
Another week commences and thus another week of private views and art openings. Here is a list of a few of them. Tuesday 20th sees the opening of an intriguing exhibition at GV Art titled 'There is Hope'. The private view is on the 22nd but the exhibition doors will......

Posted: Jan 19 2009 | More...

Olivier Richon
Building a blog entry around Cartesian philosophy seems like a pretty bad idea, but Olivier Richon's Anima(l) nods vigorously towards the 17th century natural-scientist and thinker in both title and approach, so here goes. The private view was last night at Ibid Projects on Vyner Street, and the artist's second......

Posted: Jan 16 2009 | More...

London Art Fair 2009
Billed rather predictably as 'recession busting,' (ft) the London Art Fair launched on Tuesday night with a wash of PR-ing about how in its 21st year it continues as 'the largest Modern British and contemporary art showcase in the UK' (press release) and assuring 'quality and accessibility' for the......

Posted: Jan 15 2009 | More...

Westerns and Ghost Tank
I spent a free evening taking in a couple of shows yesterday. One was at The Photographers Gallery - my first visit since the relocation to Ramillies Street, a great venue. Katy Grannan's The Westerns is a striking collection of large format portraits focusing on the lives of three West......

Posted: Jan 14 2009 | More...

Kabin Art Collection
We met last night with Pasquale, the man responsible for the Kabin Art Collection. Pasquale is an inspiring character for anyone interested in contemporary art. He has a passion for collecting and supporting young artists that is rarely matched. We talked at length about the cultural importance of......

Posted: Jan 13 2009 | More...

Events over the coming week.
So what is actually happening this week in the world of art openings, free beer, networking and vintage shoes? Here is a list of things that I am hoping will be worth a visit over the coming week. January is an interesting time for the art world here in......

Posted: Jan 12 2009 | More...

Hugely Overrated By A Tiny Few
Our man in charge of artist relations James P Honey has released his first solo album on Milled Pavement records. It is called 'Hugely Overrated By A Tiny Few' and is an alternative rap, spoken word feast. If any readers have heard of the likes of Anticon, Definitive Jux......

Posted: Jan 09 2009 | More...

GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy of Arts
I missed the first part of this two part programme and I am yet to really know why that happened. I guess time just zipped by like it does so well and then it was Christmas. Anyhow I made to put right my madness and attended the second part......

Posted: Jan 08 2009 | More...

The Kids move into City Hall
Dulwich does a good line in independent schools, delicatessens and white picket fences. It is not, generally speaking, associated with urban art. And yet the education department at the Dulwich Picture Gallery has just been deservedly recognised for fostering just that. This project has been lurking for a while now,......

Posted: Jan 07 2009 | More...

2009 begins
So welcome back to the real world everybody. The cogs of 2009 are swirling wildly and thus far rather smoothly I must say. A new year and a new mound of exciting art waiting impatiently to slap us across our rosy wintery cheeks. Expect to hear from us on......

Posted: Jan 06 2009 | More...