Frieze week continues, the Other Art Fair is happening once more, happening again down at one of Truman Brewery’s Brick Lane spaces, got to admit I’m not a fan of the fair anyway, the outrageous way they exploit artists with their fees required to take part, why do artists allow themselves to exploited like that?…
You’re bombarded with it all, paintings to the left, paintings to the right, lines and lines of politely hung gallery booths, dozens and dozens of clean cut galleries from London, Tokyo, New York, Berlin, South Africa, India, Mexico, Margate, Glasgow, hours of them, days of them, no way can you see it all, an endless…
Frieze week then, we’ve been to the Cork Street launch, we’ve been swamped with the press releases, the 9am openings and the zoom press conferences, the swarms of information about the other fairs, we’ve asked questions and today the massive monster of a fair itself opens up in Regent’s Park, here’s we go them. or…
The full artist line up for the next Art Car Boot Fair event has just been announced, “Good gosh here they all are, the jewels in the ACBF Queen and Country edition happening online November 6th until 8th” said a spokesperson. Tickets are on sale now, you need a ticket to get on the site…
Polyhymns have a rather refined new EP called Let Them Be Animals, more of that almost fragile glow from the Sheffield band. We have featured them before, they are relatively new, uncluttered, fresh, simple, crafted, indeed they’re refreshing. They choose to describe themselves as an experimental folk group, I guess that’s a good as anything,…
Organ Thing of The Day: A quick one for today, that excellent Y in Dub album we featured several times already, that classic album from the still vital thing that is The Pop Group, that Y album reconstructed by Dennis Bovell – read about it here – ORGAN THING: ‘Y in Dub’ a dynamic dub…
Derek Boshier – Icarus and K Pop at Gazelli Art House – Where were we? After that ridiculously early morning call to Cork Street (and the bitching about it in the gallery next door), the question was was Gazelli Art House open at this ungodly hour of the morning? Really want to see those Derek…
Just happened to be passing 95 New Bond Street, west end of London when we spied a rather familar big pink bear, the artist known as LUAP and his Pink Bear visions or subconscious nightmares, are they nightmares? I don’t know, would I want to be constantly seeing a big pink bear or not? Maybe…
The launch of No 9 Cork Street: Frieze’s “major new initiative” then… And on it all goes, the non-stop merry-go-round that did briefly stop but now appears to be in full flow again, the new normal the same as the old one so it would appear, the Frieze week is more like three, it probably…
Where were who or what? Drowning in a sea of press releases from artists and galleries jumping on the NFT bandwagon, that and press releases about who’s doing what during Frieze week, and not a word from anyone of them about climate change and the great big footprint left by all these galleries flying in…
The Five music thing again for whatever it might be worth? Five? Again? Already? Five more? Do we need a new editorial yet? Is there a point? Is there any point? Was there ever? What do points make? What is the point? Again and again and again (and again). Five more, same as last time…
Organ Thing of The Day: Rrival Consoles returns with a new album – a resonant and explorative soundscape of original music, composed for renowned choreographer Alexander Whitley’s contemporary dance production Overflow, and shares bold opening track ‘Monster’. . More via Bandcamp “London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable…
The Art on a Postcard (AOAP) Winter Auction is back for its seventh year celebrating a much bigger twenty years for The Hepatitis C Trust and capping a year of celebrations for this powerhouse of a charity. The Hepatitis C Trust has punched above its weight throughout its twenty years of operating as a charity.…
Organ Thing of The Day: Something rather good brewing here, Ben Marc has released something rather special in the shape of his “Breathe Suite EP”. Out this week via Innovative Leisure, the EP features British Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, jazz-rapper Rarely Always and former Attica Blues singer Midnighttroba. I don’t know what is and isn’t jazz,…
Where were who or what? Where were we? Drowning in a sea of press releases from artists and galleries jumping on the NFT bandwagon while we carry on poking at things rather like we did here last week? Same stuff, different day (or week or year). We already said all this, we almost certainly do…
