MEL BOCHNER, Blah Blah Blah at Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London, Feb 2020 – The never ending need to explore galleries, to go look at art, the need to go be in the room with it. Managed to catch some of the Mel Bochner paintings recently on show at Maddox Gallery, an exhibition of his very…
Garrett Prutner and Richie Culver, Cacotopia04 Week three and four at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, London E2, Feb 2020 – It would be fair to say that week three and four had a lot to live up to in terms of Cacotopia04, it would also be fair to say that week three and four…
Organ Thing of The Day: It was forty years ago this very day, as someone just pointed out on social media, actually it was film maker Gavin Toomey, let’s give him credit, It was forty years ago this very day, February 16th, right over the street from us here in the Organ bunker in Hackney,…
Five Recommended Art Things? Are bothered, shall we do it again? Rubbish? I saw a man, a middle aged man who really should have known better, a middle aged man who was about to throw a trombone in a skip, I asked him why he didn’t at least take it to the charity shop, (we…
Rosemary Cronin’s Pickled high heel shoes have gone viral, actually the photo of the shoes that were part of a rather successful art show called The Offending Article at East London’s Transition Two gallery that came to an end last weekend have gone viral without an artist credit attached to them. The Shoes that were…
Hunter Potter, Public Gallery, Hackney, opening night, 5th Feb 2020 – Another night another opening, it really is, with a little bit of effort, despite gentrification and the destruction of so many vital art spaces, still possible to fill any given week with a rewarding (or at least semi-rewarding) art show or two here in…
The Offending Article, Rosemary Cronin & Stuart McKenzie at Transition Two, East London, Feb 2020 – It was a rather busy opening night down by the roundabout in the Ghetto (as the Hackney locals refer to the village-like area) – ‘Never was I so offended as a small child when my mother tried to force…
