We like the way things are done in terms of art and artists in Folkestone, it isn’t perfect but the way Folkestone’s Creative Quarter has worked with the town, the way the Folkestone Triennial has brought life to a fine old town rather than just imposing on a town in that way art so…
Monday morning, , if you want the Snik bit then cut to chase down there, we’re dealing with what’s of what we have in Monday morning’s in-box? Well there’s hundreds of ICYMI messages from art people and even more from music people and those who think they’re arty music people cluttering up the Organ in-box,…
“wow, that really is an us and them situation, the art world is so so so strange and so disparate, so far away from the people or the people making art..Those figures are shocking and also not shocking, but just argh, what the hell indeed, awful in a rather horrific look-at-the-state-of-the-world-we-are-in kind of way, and…
Five art things? We didn’t do it last week, last week Frieze week and all that art fair noise, the circus has left town, the mainstream media on the whole thinks art only happens for one week of the year so they’ve allgone as well, everything is back to something near as normal l…
And so the dust or whatever it was has settled, the vast vast (vast) white tent is probably down by now, the whole damn global art fair circus has already moved on, “oh darling, Frieze is so last week now”, the money has been counted or laundered or whatever it was all really about, the…
Was it as opulent this time, was it as big a beast? The sign outside certainly wasn’t as big, no big shiny black mile-high towering sign overlooking everyone coming in this year, instead a more subdued green one, that sign says so much, things aren’t quite so bold in 2019. Is opulent the right word?…
ORGAN: FRIEZE WEEK Part 3 – Looked out the studio window and there was Shepard Fairey half way up a Hackney wall…, work in progress, Wednesday afternoon, Mare Street….
