ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Things – Evengy Antufiev, Emalin at Art Basel, Robert Sample, Joseph Loughborough and Bael at Ben Oakley Gallery, Unchartered Territory from North Wales, This One and friends on Brick Lane, Judy Chicago at Baltic…

Thursday? Five art things? Are we still in lockdown, Boris and his bunch of crooks aren’t exactly being that clear about anything now are they? The scientists look like they’ve disowned it all and I think we can meet to have sex in zoos or maybe safari parks as long as we “stay alert” and…

ORGAN THING: Thirteen galleries, several pints, the further exploration of East London’s art – Athena Papadopoulos at Emalin, the Brains & Lip Takeover at Hix, William Mackrell at The Ryder, Elizabeth Magill’s opening night at Wilkinson, Rckay Rax back at Residence…

  Thirteen galleries, several pints, this particular Friday afternoon started with another quick look at Jonathan Baldock’s bed over the street at Space . At least someone has made this particular bed and not left their discarded shoes and their empty bottles of vodka from last night all over it (I do prefer an unmade lived-in…

ORGAN THING: Fragile times at BSMT Space…

Fragile, Cultivate at BSMT Space, Dalston, London N16 – Back to the basement, never mind the snow and the rain, back to BSMT Space for another Cultivate show, another pro-active gathering of artistic energy and sixteen, or was it seventeen? A gathering of sixteen or seventeen pro-active artists, and before we go much further, for…

ORGAN THING: Displacement? Words? Another show…. art…. blah blah… this… that…

Displacement? Words? Another show…. art…. blah blah… this… that… words? What’s words worth?…. there goes the neighbourhood…. beer…paint…. rust…. people…. words… friends…old friends, new friends…. foes, toes, stepping on toes, artists, egos… words… I was on the way to the show yesterday  morning, off along the road, painting under arm, off to hang it in…