Dave Buonaguidi, Say It With Flowers at Nelly Duff, Columbia Road, East London, Sept 2019 – I don’ know, calling the art an artist makes “fun” feels a little throwaway, a little lazy, a touch insulting and that really isn’t the intention here, this is fun though, this is classic pop art fun, pop art…
Augustine Carr and Neal Rock, Transfers (On The Margin), Transition Gallery, East London, Sept 2019 – A rather intimate two person show at Transition Gallery’s new space down in The Ghetto (as some Hackney residents mockingly call the Victoria Park village). Actually this seems a far more friendly welcoming place than that previous rather aloof…
Five recommended art things once more, London art things mostl for that is where we are. September is here, we are trying to be good about this, things have been stirring, art is stirring, London really has been far too quiet in recent times but, to answer last week’s question, things are definitely kicking in…
You kind of hope these things aren’t true when they start circulating the web, the passing of the artist known as Type is being reported this morning though. Sad news indeed, my favourites were those giant central London pieces you could see boldly across the river from the opposite bank of the Thames, can’t put…
A piece from my own personal blog where I really do blow my own trumpet, we’ll reproduce it. here. People have been asking about ORG Records recently (we ran a record label for quite a few years back there), people have been asking if there was anything left? If there are any plans for re-issues…
Organ Thing of The Day: Swans have a new album called Leaving Meaning on the way, the new album will be released worldwide October 25th, 2019 on Young God Records/Mute.. “It’s Coming It’s Real”, a track from said fifteenth studio album, the first to be let loose, features choral vocals by Anna and Maria von…
We have mentioned this before, worth another mention though, always worth another mention, a yrailer for Rebel Dykes, a documentary about a bunch of “kickass women who lived in London in the 1980s”. The film is directed by Harri Shanahan and Sian Williams, and produced by Siobhan Fahey. “Before there were queer activists, before there…
The beautiful thing that is The Art Car Fair heads to the seaside for one last blast of summer, The 2019 Love Margate artist line-up has just been announced, the fair heads for Dreamland for the weekend of all the Turner Prize whatevers. You’ll find a whole load of artists coming together, you’ll find special…
Artists Bob and Roberta Smith have a new single, ‘Artists Ruin It’ is said to be “a fast-spun punky skank, tells how people who don’t ‘get’ the arts might imagine artists to be. The A-side is a noisy demonstration of rebellion which features Jessica Voorsanger on joint lead vocals, while the B-side leaves space for…
Five recommended art things, London art things, September is here, things are stirring, art is stirring, London really has been far too quiet in recent times, are things kicking in again? The Five Art Things feature is intended as a regular, almost certainly weekly, or something like weekly, a weekly round up of recommended art…
That awkwardly named beautifully intense New York avant noise band Child Abuse have a new album, we just had a first listen to the whole thing, here’s an immediate reaction and a first track released… Child Abuse, it isn’t the easiest of band names to live with (or search for), really don’t like it, but…
JAMES JOHNSTON, “Recent Work”, Stash gallery at Vout-O-Reenee’s, East London – James Johnston, mostly, at least for those of us who have been in London long enough and lucky enough to witness his development, is best known as Gallon Drunk’s frontman, he has also spent considerable time working with others: a mid 90s spell as a touring…
