Went exploring art yesterday, we go exploring galleries and art and such more days than we don’t, there’s always another show to see or an exciting to return to or a wall to check out, there’s the current show at Fred Mann’s New Art Projects (Sheep Lane, Hackney, by the canal and parallel to Broadway…
Went to Hang-Up Gallery’s Ten opening tonight, Hang-Up, the self proclaimed “Contemporary Urban Art and Graffiti” gallery on Stoke Newington Road, over in Dalston was busy celebrating itself. And what a politely unexciting pile of polite middle class neatly-framed coffee-table politeness it was. Same old polite Banksy prints you’ve seen a million times before,…
The Art Car Boot Fair is always an adventure, the annual London events, the visits to Liverpool, Folkestone, Margate or wherever we may go. Last year the London leg took place South of the river down in Vauxhall, a move away from the Art Car Boot Fair spiritual home of Brick Lane. Brick Lane…
Organ Thing of The Day : A new video for the title track from Peter Harris’ album “Adverts”. Read more about the album here – Visual artist Peter Harris, his debut album, Lee Scratch Perry, really singing, Adverts, widescreen television and… enjoy the video right there,,, . More details of the album via the Bandcamp
Well there’s certainly something of a buzz in this part of East London tonight, it isn’t an the 2018 Whitechapel Open though. Stolen Space Gallery is buzzing tonight, there’s a line up the street waiting for the gallery to open, we’re right around the corner from Whitechapel Gallery itself, two East End galleries within a…
Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky – This is The Gate of Heaven at Gallery 46, Whitechapel, East London – “Working around themes of transformation, corruption and conservation, the show presents a banquet of the senses and a magic bullet for these dark times” – we’ve seen lots of Paul Sakoilsky in recent years, his paintings,…
TOMMA ABTS – Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, W2, (June 2018) – It isn’t until you get in really close to the layers and the fine fine details of those paintings of Tomma Abts that you really start to enjoy the richness of her paintings, their crisp warmth, their subtle shifts in weight, that carefully precise use…
