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Jul 6, 2011, 8:35 am
http://www.ayearinmuseums.com/
One man aims to visit every museum in London in one year. Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2011, 6:29 am
We do a couple of day trips every now and again. William’s got his wonderful private jet, and we make use of that. In the spring we went to Paris for the Pompidou opening and then on to Madrid for the Prado, which was closed on the Monday, but it was arranged that we could go in and walk aroun... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2011, 6:34 am
Theatres, museums and orchestras say they need core funding on either a three, four or five year contact, to enable them to plan and run their businesses. Any additional money provided by philanthropic gifts or a one-off lottery grant is extremely helpful, but doesn’t compare. It is the differ... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2011, 8:32 am
The head of Russia’s world-famous Bolshoi Theatre ballet troupe has resigned after erotic photographs purporting to be him appeared on the internet.
Rebekah Cavanagh, ‘Bolshoi Ballet Boss Quits Over Porn Scandal’, Sky News online, 17 March 2011. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Bol... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2011, 11:51 am
Michael Joo, ‘Sculpture Interrogated/ Deflected’, 2011. http://www.othercriteria.com/blog/2011/03/08/sculpture-interrogateddeflected/ with AW track changes.
AW: we’ve proof read Michael Joo’s statement about his sculpture and made some comments in track changes. Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2011, 12:58 pm
As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain.
Jedediah Wakefield, lawyer, quoted in Cat Weaver, ‘Is a Cease and Desist About Irony, Hypocrisy or Legal Strategy?’, 10... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2011, 12:01 pm
I don’t think any of the judges feel this is the dernier cri in terms of what will be done with the low-energy light bulb
Will Self, Brit Insurance design of the year award jury member, ‘Plumen Lightbulb wins Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011’,
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Feb 25, 2011, 6:17 am
AW Cartoon Hirst 1.
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Feb 18, 2011, 5:46 am
1 panjandrums
1 jabberwocky
1 piffle
3 feminist
1 feminism
Brian Sewell, ‘Away with the fairies with Susan Hiller’, Evening Standard, 3 February 2011, .
AW: Sometime I think he puts in the Sewellisms and then writes the article around them. As ever in his review of Susan Hiller ‘feminism... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2010, 12:23 pm
What, I asked, does that mean?
Will Gompertz, ‘Looking forward to Transparency in Arts Funding’, 9 November 2010, Gomp/Arts, BBC, accessed 15 November, .
AW: That, Will, is exactly what we are always asking. Check out this blog post. It expresses exactly how we feel about government spinnin... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2010, 8:33 am
Turner Prize bosses made an exhibition of themselves yesterday, by trying to ban any bad publicity.
The row blew up after members of the Press were asked to sign a form which said journalists could not publish any images or words which would “result in any adverse publicity” for the exhibitio... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 5:00 am
Had Muybridge been able to record the movements of Lady Hamilton’s Attitudes we might have understood the erotic charge that so fascinated Nelson and led to his seduction, but for this his ingenious camera was a long half-century too late.
Brian Sewell, ‘Motion Pictures from Edward Muybridge... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2010, 6:07 am
All you Gauguin enthusiasts will know that he often signed his works ‘P GO’. Sometime last year, when we were throwing around ideas about merchandising during the exhibition, someone came up with the lovely idea of commissioning a children’s book, featuring Gauguin’s animals, birds and e... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2010, 8:58 am
So there will be some re-shaping of library services but I do think it is important that we think imaginatively about where libraries could be. I wouldn’t even have a problem, for example, if there was a library in a pub.
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Jul 22, 2010, 5:47 am
Born in 1946, Jamie is unashamedly a borrower, a crass incompetent incapable of drawing and able to paint only in the idiom of either father or grandfather — corny is the word that comes to mind, closely followed by naive, stale, uncomprehending, vulgar and inane. At his inept attempt to portr... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2010, 4:32 pm
An art exhibit designed to show what can happen when tearaways get hold of powerful cars has been wrecked… by yobs.
‘It’s a joyhiding’. The Sun, 25 June 2010, .
AW: The Sun can barely disguise the note of triumph. Conceptual art? Bollaaaarks! Yobs? Booo! Conceptual art wrecking yobs? Well... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2010, 6:47 am
I smelled a conspiracy. Could ancient Egyptian embalmers have replaced the royal member to hide the fact that their king’s manhood was somewhat lacking? What’s more, the front of Tut’s chest is missing, so it’s impossible to check whether he did indeed have breasts.
Jo Marchant, ‘On... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 5:57 am
From the Guardian website, accessed 2 June 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/01/marc-quinn-interview
AW: Everyone is making paintings and sculpture of Michael Jackson right now. He’s the new Marilyn Monroe. Is this Quinn’s bid to be the next Jeff Koons?
More recent Michael J... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2010, 7:10 am
‘nude women bathed, nude boys drew swords from scabbards, and nude Nubians stood guard. The small bronze was, it seems, a genre of art in which the nude, male and female, could abandon modesty and its futile wisps of drapery and stand full frontal at eye-level on the mantelpiece.’
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May 31, 2010, 2:00 am
‘A parallel contrast arises between the dollops of inactive paint on the edges and the paint rendered deliberately in the centre by the artist’s brush – raising the fundamental question, when is a painting more than the sum of its parts?’
PRESS RELEASE, ‘Phillip Allen, The urgent hang aro... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 2:00 am
‘Introducing a disruptive element that twists or changes reality, without ever neglecting the aesthetic value, he creates a movement of attraction and repulsion, which poses the problem of the very existence of images and their meanings.’
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May 27, 2010, 8:35 am
‘last year a swan was alleged to have choked to death on cotton hanging from an artwork in the lake.’
‘Wacky art show at Pally’, Muswell Hill Journal, 27 May 2010, .
AW: Art exhibitions don’t get much more controversial than that. We’re looking forward to this year’s controversy, ‘p... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 9:36 am
Image from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/willgompertz/2010/05/yinka_shonibare_1.html
AW: Incidentally, the work (Yinka Shonibare’s, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, 2010, Trafalgar Square, London) is fantastic. Comment - Like
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May 25, 2010, 10:10 am
It was like an afternoon with Bob and Roberta Smith’s less gifted mates.
Jonathan Jones, ‘Tate Modern’s birthday was a soulless celebration’, The Guardian online, 17 May 2010,
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May 22, 2010, 6:48 am
I fell to wondering what French critics have made of it, but long ago, translating for the Arts Council, I learned that French art criticism is what David Lee, editor of Jackdaw, might dub high octane artbollocks — the self-indulgent blethering of pseuds in the obscure jabberwocky that has develop... Comment - Like
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May 20, 2010, 6:48 am
Alistair Foster, ‘Who gave Tracey Emin a multicoloured shiner? Another artist, of course’, The Evening Standard, 20 May 2010, Comment - Like
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May 18, 2010, 1:28 pm
The British artist Charming Baker has caused a sensation in New York where Damien Hirst has been buying up his work in bulk.
Colin Gleadell, ‘Art Sales: the British artist charming his way to the top’, Telegraph.co.uk, 18 May 2010,
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May 10, 2010, 12:21 pm
With a broom propped up against a wall and pieces of wood strewn across the floor, it looks like the builders have clocked off or taken a lunch break.
But thr scene is actually a display in a gallery and some angry punters have branded it “the worst art exhibition in Britain”.
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Apr 30, 2010, 5:58 am
‘it is in drawing that the sperm penetrates the egg, so to speak, and the conception of a work of art begins (it is tempting to suppose that pen, pencil and penis come from the same root, but they do not)’
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Apr 26, 2010, 4:29 pm
Interestingly, the commitment to Tate Modern was made not by the Labour government but by a Conservative government, in 1995, when Virginia Bottomley supported the creation of Tate Modern. So Tate Modern has, in a sense, been a crossparty invention.
Nicholas Serota in interview, ‘Artists, crit... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 10:16 am
The pavilion of post contemporary curating
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/sutton1.html
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Apr 21, 2010, 5:47 am
Damien Hirst is to star as a fictional curator in a film about the YBAs. Oh dear: http://artcollc.blogspot.com/2010/04/damien-hirst-curates-boogie-woogie.html Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2010, 5:58 am
Adult Drawing
A Zoppa Brothers Production
Recorded April 18th, 2009
The Zoppa Brothers’ Adult Drawing event features a collection of eclectic and exotic models posing for artists in a hip setting with excellent house music. This is not your grandmother’s Art Student’s League sketch clas... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 5:49 am
“Being an artist and a single mum, you became very creative in what’s available to you. It can be very expensive spending money on materials, paying rent and fees. I just need to think on my feet. Stealing or robbing or appropriating — that’s what I do.”
Roisin Byrne, quoted in ‘Gold... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 4:00 am
Tate are advertising for a Senior Visitor Experience Manager (their new name for visitor services). As a visitor, I’d like to manage my own experience thank you very much. Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 4:00 am
Anish Kapoor, ArcelorMittal Orbit (model), 2010. Images from: http://agmetalminer.com/2010/04/06/arcelormittal-orbit-tower-to-dominate-london-2012-skyline/
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Apr 7, 2010, 4:00 am
“shove onto it an incredible space-age Isaac Asimov trapezoid thing”
‘Boris Johnson officially begins the Tate Modern extension: “an incredible space-age Isaac Asimov trapezoid thing”’, Art Review, 6 January 2010, Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2010, 5:21 am
Man Homo sapiens sapiens a) Pending, cf. Letter of Donation.
The answer to our cataloguing quiz, what object is being described?, is… a human penis. I bet the Icelandic Phallologigal Museum can’t wait to get its hands on that specimen. Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2010, 8:28 am
“With his flowing white beard and donnish, almost magical air, Irving Finkel looks every inch the learned scholar.”
Ed Davey, ‘The 99% of the British Museum not on show’, BBC London, 31 march 2010,
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Mar 31, 2010, 11:09 am
Here at Art Wank we love a bit of cataloguing. For a fun quiz can you guess?
(i) which museum this catalogue entry could have come from?
and
(ii) what the object is?
Man Homo sapiens sapiens a) Pending, cf. Letter of Donation. Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 4:00 am
Ginger Adams Otis, Michael Jackson’s weird art revealed: Jacko art’s a Michaelangelo’, New York Post, 6 December 2010, Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2010, 4:00 am
By creating a new world with new borders and conditions, each sculpture in this group exhibition embraces both the viewer and the object, using the relationship between the two to recreate the definitions of reality, invention, and representation.
Press Release: ‘The World We Live In, The Worl... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2010, 4:00 am
Experts have analysed more than 50 paintings of the meal Jesus took with his disciples before his betrayal and crucifixion. And they have concluded that the amount of food on the table has grown by Biblical proportions over the centuries.
Jane Wharton, ‘Da Vinci’s Last Supper Gets Bigger by ... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2010, 8:16 am
In his review of ‘Victoria and Albert: Art and Love’ at the Queens Gallery, Brian Sewell continues to criticise the appearance of British queens. Having described Lady Jane Grey as ‘plain Jane’ last week in his review of the Delaroche exhibition at the National Gallery, he now turns to Queen... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2010, 6:35 am
It is thought Hitler’s anti-semitism was fuelled by the fact that a Jewish professor snubbed him.
‘Nazi Bit of Work’, The Sun, 25 March 2010,
AW: Historians at the Sun answer the big questions: what makes a tyrant? Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 1:18 pm
‘Jane Grey has always left me cold and does so still. I can only suppose that the modern public has fallen sentimentally for a Plain Jane in a wedding dress confronted with a rather worse predicament than being jilted at the altar.’
Brian Sewell, ‘Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Gre... Comment - Like
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