A quick Organ preview, Lucy Sparrow is back and you probably need to book an apointment at the chemist Lucy Sparrow – The Bourdon Street Chemist at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery – “The Bourdon Street Chemist by British artist Lucy Sparrow is the artist’s seventh major installation. It marks her return to the UK after four years…
*BREAKING NEWS* so shout those fine Horse Hospital people, “It is with great relief that we can announce – following 18 months of uncertainty and stressful negotiations – we have FINALLY SECURED A NEW LEASE to remain in the building and continue our program of exhibitions and events for a further 4 years !!!💥 This…
Cats Like Plain Crisps: Brilliant Photos Of Great Graffiti In 1970s London, we can’t really ignore this one, “Beware the Thunderous Trowel Surgeons” and avoid “authority perverts”, this one came our way via the magic of social media and for once the algorhythms did us well. Roger Perry’s photographs of graffiti in 1970s London were…
The much trumpeted London Mural Festival is almost upon us, it happens in the first weeks of September and it throws up all kinds of uncomfortable questions about the further commercialisation of street art, about gentrification and community, about art as mere advertising, about the integrity of it all. And as much as anything else,…
ORGAN PREVIEW: Art can’t stop, Cultivate’s latest group show, #43Artists will open on Thursday night – It was never intended to be an alternative during the current lockdown and the lack of physical gallery shows and white walls and open doors and the noise pf opening night gatherings that we’re already missing, on line shows…
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…
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…
Five more art things? This week’s picks? The art year got off to a decent start with the first of four installment of Cacotopia 04 at Annka Kultys Gallery last week as well as that rather packed and buzzing Punk4MetalHealth fundraiser at Stash Gallery over at that den of delight that is Vout-O’Reenee’s,underneath that church,…
So what did excite is in terms of the London art scene in 2019? Cleaning up before we get on with the business of properly entering the roaring twenties or whatever we’re going to call this new rather foreboding decade. The plan was to do one of those retrospective “best of” look backs over the…
Five? Now were did all that go? Crashes? Computers? Let’s write it all again and again and again and again and no butterflies were harmed during the making of this week’s page, no selfies in front of butterflies were taken, no here’s-me-at-the-private-view-with-some-butterflies episodes here. That’s Hunter Potter up there by the way. Five more? Five…
