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HIRST THE WORST
Damien Hirst Damien Hirst,He's the worst.He's so bad he must be cursed.Why must it be he who quenches the thirStFor art that never really works(t)?The above poem featured in the The Dial poetry journal...
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WWJDD?
What would Jeremy Deller do? The riots of recent days may not be the same as the 1980's strikes and pickets but once talk of rubber bullets/water cannons/gas/gas/'take their benefits away' has subsided...
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FOLKESTONE IS A PLACE WHERE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING
'Heaven', according to Nathan Coley's text sculpture, 'Is A Place Where Nothing Happens'. And on the basis of this definition, Folkestone has probably been more like heaven in recent years than many...
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DADA WAS A RIOT
A Dada poem: 'What caused the London riots?'pinpoint to of and Deprived frightened arrest Broadwater Farm workerMany behaviour resident ignore young doing shops officials people.levels especially...
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EXPOSURE 11
Click here to go to Jotta.com where you can read my interview with Kate Shepherd, Jack Friswell and Rebecca Turner, the winners of this year’s Exposure award. All three winners are recent graduates...
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CHEWY COSMOS THINGLY TIME
Below is a very belated review of Andy Holden's exhibition Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time, shown at Kettle's Yard from 14th May - 10th July 2011.My delay in posting can be explained by a shorter version of...
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY: WILDER/KINDER
Robert Montgomery's most recent gallery exhibition opened on the 20th October with a simultaneous outdoor re-exhibition of ALL PALACES ARE TEMPORARY PALACES, a work first shown in boat form during this...
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IN THE PRESENCE OF A PERFUME
Go to Jotta.com to read my review of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: IN THE PRESENCE.Visit the ICA from 6pm - 9pm on a Thursday or 2pm - 5pm Friday/Saturday/Sunday to avoid missing out on Leah...
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ALASTAIR MACKIE: COPSE
Here is my review ofAlastair Mackie's installation Copse, showing atAll Visual Artsuntil 16th December.Spare, silent, white and cold: Alastair Mackie’s Copse evokes the kind of visual atmosphere for...
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INTERVIEW WITH GUILLAUME CABANTOUS
Read my interview with Guillaume Cabantous in Topman GENERATION magazine. Sculpture and drawings by Cabantous are currently in the group exhibition 'Certains pleurent d’émotion...
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SUM OF SUBSTANCE
Read my interview with Jotta curators Ellie Grieg and Dave Charlesworth here. The exhibition they have organised, titled Sum of Substance, features the work of nineteen recent graduate artists with...
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LUCKY PDF WELCOME NEW STUDENT TO THE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL ART
Just in time for the switchover from analogue to digital TV came the opening of Remote Control, the ICA's survey of the impact of television on recent modes of artistic production. More on this...
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INTERVIEW WITH BEN LONG
Throughout April the city of Birmingham differentiates itself from the rest of urban Britain as its advertising billboards, normally bent on seducing and selling, are taken over by works of art...
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IN SEARCH OF LIGHTNING
In Search of Lightningis a new film byEsther Teichmann, whose work I first encountered in a collaborative exhibition in 2009 titled Lulled into believing. Here, an installation by Teichmann and...
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HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Serpentine Gallery, 11th April – 5th JuneInstallation view, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Serpentine Gallery. © 2012 Jerry Hardman-JonesThe pile of identical images from which any visitor to Hans-Peter...
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THE RESPONSE
This review ofThe Response was published by Frieze.comon 20/07/12. Jess Flood-Paddock, Dust to Dust (2012)I was once told that ‘ash makes ash’ – that is, that the wood of the ash tree is the sort of...
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A DRILLER KILLER DOUBLE BILL
This Friday 21st September Vanessa Scully and I present an evening of 'video nasties' and a lecture byDr. John Cussans, titled 'The Influence of Bad Impressions'.Trailers preceding The Driller Killer...
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SAVE OLD FLO!
Drawing by Liam Scully, artist against 'Old Flo's saleA letter sent to Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman earlier this month. Dear Lutfur,I am writing to express my dismay at the decision of Tower...
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THE READYMADE REMODELLED
Below is an essay I recently completed forBen Long. The text will appear, along with my interview, in a forthcoming publication designed by Matilda Saxow.Spirit Structures, as Long has titled one of...
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