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…
Nothing is ever that square, would you be that bothered if the music stuff here got hit on the head? I mean, it is pretty much me doing it all, I do thing, the radio thing is something else, a different thing, there’s only so many hours that can be squeezed in to a day…
With something like 33 days to go one of the best days on the London art calender, the participating artists list has been announced this morning. Karen Ashton and her team have been leaking announcements via their social media feeds for the last few weeks, some exciting new names (and although no one has said…
TRACEY EMIN, A Fortnight of Tears – White Cube, Bermondsey, London SE1, opening night, 5th Feb 2019 – There’s a buzz in the air walking down Bermondsey Street in the cold and the rain, there’s crowds of people all heading in the same direction, feels more like a medium sized rock concert rather than the…
