The Art blog list: Ten to read in May
The internet is full of fascinating art blogs that try and convey a sense of what it is like to be an artist. Every month we highlight ten interesting art blogs that capture in different ways the lives...
View ArticleGinevra addresses Leonardo
The darker the shadow, the brighter the light… ‘I’m painting with colours not with black and white. I have to use colours to make you shine, Ginevra.’ I never said the shadow’s black and the light...
View ArticlePaintings by Hogan Brown, Langham Gallery, Lambs Conduit Street
You’re born, live a little (geographically speaking, even octogenarians are but a blink compared to how the mantle buckles mm by mm) then die. If this is news to you, I apologise. And all usually...
View ArticleMark Bradford at SFMOMA (Review)
A must-see for anyone engaged with contemporary at the simply titled, Mark Bradford mid-career retrospective of artist manages to communicate the highlights and the spirit of the American artist. I...
View ArticleProfessor Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
Professor Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed @Royal Academy of Arts, Green Park Tube, London http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/johan-zoffany-ra-society-observed/ 10 March—10 June 2012...
View ArticleMerry Summer Solstice!
Dark Shadows of Economic Meltdown, Global Warming and Personal Worries are waving their ugly arms at us again. Will they win? Will they grasp our warm hearts and squeeze the living juices out of them?...
View ArticleHow My Mother is Always Right
I haven’t posted for a while, for a number of reasons. The best, and most exciting one (the others being poor health and becoming surprisingly patriotic over the jubilee weekend) is that I have been...
View ArticleChoreography Clinic; a dialogue among dance makers about making dance
No stranger to the vast terrain of Los Angeles, southern California native Marlita Hill bypassed the geography challenges with the creation of her blog Choreography Clinic. Many artists find it...
View ArticlePrometheus Awakes
Prometheus Awakes was nothing like I expected. Though I’m not sure I knew what to expect, seeing as I am a novice to aerial work, and anything close to this sort of performance! There were some very...
View ArticleThe Doha Art Scene
https://www.facebook.com/OnlyInQatar It’s a truth universally known that in all articles about Qatar, one must mention basic facts (size, oil, ambition, FIFA world cup), otherwise certain death (oh...
View ArticleInvisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012 at the Hayward Gallery, London
I had never seen an exhibition all about ‘invisible’ art before, nor had ever really thought much about art that you can’t see. But I was at a loose end and it was raining so I thought why not. The...
View ArticleNovel Ideas #2 – The Value of Writing Workshops
If there is one thing I have learned from my time working for Cyprus Well, it is that there are a lot of wannabe writers out there. The quality of these writers varies greatly, but one thing many of...
View ArticleNovel Ideas #3 – Write What You Know
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.” ~ Sylvia Plath Granted, this quote comes from Sylvia Plath, who is...
View ArticleWhen to stop Paying your Unpaid Dues
Whether its unpaid internships, expenses-only student films or being a volunteer administrator, doing work for no pay is a subject done to death. Equity has a Lo Pay/No Pay working party, the Old Vic...
View ArticleThe Art of Seeing
It was only very recently, during this summer in fact, that I saw – for the first time in my life – someone staring at a painting. Now, I like to take my time when observing a painting. In fact, I know...
View ArticleThe Often Overlooked Value of a Second Hand Book…
People who look through the dirt encrusted window of a second hand bookshop and see nothing but a dark, musty cellar of a room, full of aging tombs nobody wants; you are deluded. Those who peep,...
View ArticleThomas Houseago – Hauser and Wirth, London
As Thomas Houseago takes over both the North and South galleries of Hauser and Wirth London with two exhibitions “I’ll be your sister” and “Special Brew” it offers us a breadth of opportunity to...
View ArticleSay hello to Frieze Masters
Mexican dolls, early 20th century Dutch and Flemish paintings Installation of Don Judd’s works This year Frieze has launched Frieze Masters, a new fair for ‘historical art’, alongside Frieze proper...
View ArticleThe Wait
Ah, the wait. Something every actor has to deal with. It’s not all waiting – and certainly its not for the phone to ring nowadays. There’s a lot you can do to be proactive, but there is one time when...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Anti-Culture: ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’
Whether you believe Exit through the Gift Shop to be a genuine documentary or a hoax, the character study of Thierry Guetta, or as he is more commonly known Mr. Brainwash, is an intriguing one. Exit...
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