Posts In Category Art
Smoke Stacks to Apple Macs – the Kinetica Art Fair
on February 9, 2010 by Jimmy in Art, Article, Opinion, Comments (0)
Zizek has summarised Marx as having said that the invention of steam engine has caused more social change than any revolution ever would. Marx himself doesn’t seem to have provided […]
Lucas Price @ Black Rat Press
on October 16, 2009 by admin in Art, Review, Comments (0)
In a week that saw Damien Hirst’s career flushed down the toilet for a morbid obsession with skulls and death, Richard Allday visited Lucas Price’s new exhibit — also featuring skulls and death — and was pleasantly surprised.
Turner Prize: Not my cup of tea
on October 26, 2008 by Jimmy in Art, Opinion, Comments (0)
Jimmy Tidey tells us why conceptual art is out of ideas. It’s boring — so boring nobody’s even bothered to mention it.
Looping the Loop
on June 4, 2008 by admin in Art, Interview, Comments (0)
Patrick Coyle Interviews Dianne Harris, Director of Kinetica Museum
Modern Art is Hyper-Bollocks?
on May 14, 2008 by admin in Art, Opinion, Comments (1)
Modern art is rubbish. Or is it? Richard Allday takes a trip up North to Newcastle’s Baltic Gallery and is pleasantly surprised. Especially when a girl offers him a blowjob…
The London Art Fair – An Outsider’s Perspective
on January 21, 2008 by Jimmy in Art, Review, Comments (0)
The London Art Fair reviewed from an outsider’s perspective. We hear the cocktails were nice and the eye candy was even better, not to be philistines about it, obviously.
What Price Art?
on November 18, 2007 by admin in Art, Opinion, Comments (1)
In the first part of a series on culture’s co-option of street art, Hayley Thatcher opens the debate with her take on the Banksy phenomenon. Cynical cash in or art for the masses? Let us know what you think, and look out for more debate coming soon.
tti… Speaks to Charles Thomson
on October 15, 2007 by Jimmy in Art, Interview, Comments (4)
the thing is… speaks to Charles Thomson, cofounder of the Stuckist art movement. Although the Stuckists are best known to most people for their protests outside the Turner Prize, Stuckism represents a huge international art movement. There are many Stuckist manifestos, but their basic premise is a rejection of “modern” art, in particular the idea that anything exhibited in a gallery is art. As you might imagine, this means they have a less than cosy relationship with the art establishment.