The new art year is up and galloping then, well maybe not quite galloping but we did go to our first openings of the year last night, the first Thursday of 2023, the fifth day of the year. We’ll be along with some coverage and a typo or two in a moment. As we’ve said…
Well now that the art circus is leaving town and taking the big white elephant that was right there in the middle of the room on the plane with it, that elephant that hardly anyone else wanted to address, climate crisis? What climate crisis? Buy art, fly art, “Climate Change? Not my problem mate” said…
Lee Maelzer, Lost Sleep at D Contemporary, Mayfair, London W1- We had to go there before anything else, the first day of Frieze might have the destination later that day, but first a midday visit to what is a decently sized, rather timely Lee Maelzer exhibition in a more than decent West End of London…
I guess Frieze Week is in full swing now, well no, like I said last time, I don’t guess, I know. I guess it is mostly about the big establishment galleries this week? Is there much going on by way of a real alternative? Much happening in the undergrowth or has the financial situation and…
Frieze week preview thing: You might say Lee Maelzer is a painter’s painter, her paintings feel like they are as much about painting itself as anything else. About the paint, about the emotion of the process, not just that though, if that’s all her paintings were then we wouldn’t be previewing her forthcoming solo show…
PURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CLEAN‘ – Paul Sakoilsky and Cedric Christie at Angus-Hughes Gallery, London E5. October 2018 – It really is good when it happens in a spontaneous way, really must ask Paul Sakoilsky (or Cedric Christie) how this one actually came about? Paul said something about having something like ten days…
Five more art things, five art events that have been brought to our attention, five more that we rather think are worth sharing with you, five events, London things, for that is where we’re based right now….. Here come the latest five…. 1: Sophie Jung ‘Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water’ – For the…
THE (ACCIDENTAL) MARKS MADE WHILE MAKING ART – The accidental marks made while making art are always intriguing, the floors of artist’s studios, their boots or dresses or shirts, the outside wall that a canvas might have been propped against while being painted on. The photographs of studio floors, paint covered boots, colour-encrusted easels, old…
Open days at artist’s studios are almost always worth exploring. True, the artists do tend to clean things up just a little too much to give you the really truthful honest full-on paint-encrusted deal – those carefully placed books designed to impress, that pile of music there to casually catch your eye, and yes they…
THE ORGAN 