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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Online: FAD Website
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Saturday, September 20, 2008
News - Hirst's Golden Calf Killing - London
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The Piece is a pretty flashy one, but I guess that's what happens once you bore of the more rotten, and frankly more intense and interesting, floating sharks, and goats injecting whatever it is they’re injecting in their static tanks. I'm figuring this sheen is what happens when an artist gets clean, shuns Groucho’s, and becomes super rich.
Don’t get me wrong. I think Hirst is a genius; I’m wild about his work. I’m just not feeling The Calf, the golden one. I'm not moved by the work in the same way as I was, so dramatically, so remarkably, by Hirst's earlier works. No. This one is too clean and shiny for me. It’s too slick and ostentatious. It feels almost vulgar. However, I get that this is a great piece. I absolutely do; but for me 'The Golden Calf' is like a like something you’d find in the foyer of a (ironically) sterile, possibly Eastern, snazzy hotel. And who knows, maybe that’s exactly where The Calf has gone to.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Of Interest - Chris Cunningham and The Horrors
I’m ashamed to say I just found this; a cracker from Chris Cunningham, The Horrors ‘Sheena is a Parasite’. This piece isn’t as in your face as some of his previous works, and in that it is, frankly, superb. Played by a perfect Samantha Morton, Sheena, strobbed-up in full vibrant action, starts of manic but easy, and just as you’re thinking, come on, where’s the usual Cunning madness, she lifts her skirt to reveal some more parasite qualities. It’s quick, it’s sharp and seriously effective. In fact, it’s brilliant. The track, which Cunningham allegedly found on MySpace, was released in 2006. Shot on DVCAM in an aircraft carrier in Ealing; produced by James Wilson, with post done at Golden Square on Inferno, as well as later work by Cunningham himself, the end product is sheer genius.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Showing ' Ha Ha Road' Bank Street Arts - Sheffield
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Ha Ha Road is showing at Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS from 11th September -12th October 2008.
Email: contact@haharoad.info
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Film - Steven Sebring 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life' - NYC
Steven Sebring’s ‘Patti Smith: Dream of Life’, is showing for a short, sharp stint during August at New York's Film Forum. While the movie is described as an ‘intimate portrait of a woman caputured over time’, this, of course, is no ordinary woman; this is Patti Smith; she’s more of a legend. The film includes Smith’s own and has no specific order. Think, a gritty but great organised chaos. So far reviews have been impressive. '...Dream of Life' and has been described as a ‘spellbinder’ that’s ‘charming’ and ‘expressively shot’. Indeed, it’s likely this is a must see for anyone with an inkling of interest for rock, music and art over the past few decades.
Steven Sebring’s ‘Patti Smith: Dream of Life’, showing at Film Forum, Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014, 10th - 19th August 2008.
Tel: (9-5): 212-627-2035
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
News - Chapman Brothers to Judge John Moore - UK
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
News - Picasso's Guernica Unmovable - Spain
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Showing - 'I am 8-Bit' @ World of Wonder Storefront Gallery - LA
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I am 8-Bit will takes place at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery in Hollywood, 6650 Hollywood BlvdHollywood, California, from 14th August 14 to 7th September 2008.
Tel: (323) 603 6300
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Event - Liverpool Biennial 'International: MADE UP' - Liverpool
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Liverpool Biennial, International 08: MADE UP, takes place from Festival Dates: 20th September - 30th November; European Biennial Network Meeting: 20th September; MADE UP Weekend - 23rd-25th October.
Tel: +44 (0) 151 709 7444
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Showing - 'Paul Zone: The New York Underground Scene...' @ Drkrm - LA
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Paul Zone: The New York Underground Scene from Glam to Punk 1972-1977, is showing at Drkrm, 2121 San Fernando Road Suite 3Los Angeles, CA 90065, from 12th July - 31 August.
Tel: 323.223.6867
Showing - 'Polaroids: Mapplethorpe' @ The Whitney Museum of American Art - NYC
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While you’d be forgiven for assuming that all of Mapplethorpe’s work was fastidiously conceived, you’d be wrong. During the early seventies, at a time when a young Mapplethorpe was shifting into his own sexual persona, he produced a large batch of Polaroids; shots that represent his later works, capturing well-known friends and lovers like Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful, Ozzie Clark, Candy Darling, or Sam Wagstaff, alongside everyday happenings, erotica, and all sorts of nudity.
In association with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and curated by Sylvia Wolf, ‘Polaroids: Mapplethorpe’ at the Whitney Museum of American Art comes fast on the heels of Polaroid’s February announcement that they’re binning instant film. With its obvious cultural significance, this is an appropriate send-off, exhibiting around hundred pieces of intimacy from Mapplethorpe’s world. Indeed, many of these shots, which were taken during 1970-1975, are on public view for the first time. So, in actual fact, this show, is far from being more of the same.
“Polaroids: Mapplethorpe” is showing the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, from May 3, 2008-September 7, 2008.
Monday, July 14, 2008
News - Jasper Johns Trio Acquired by MoMA - NYC
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Showing - Constraction @ Deitch Projects - NYC
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Take the current exhibition. Curated by Deitch’s own Kathy Grayson, the nicely named, ‘Constraction’, is showing until August and comes on the back of the Spring 2008 show, ‘Substraction’. Like its predecessor, this is a group show of like-minded talents. Pulling together the strengths of six artists, each touting their conceptual wares, this is an abstract wonderland, a multi-coloured, multi-sensory, well thought-out thrill. With works from cubic-minimalist, Joe Bradley, language obsessed symbolic Tauba Auerbach, California’s cutout shadow-star Peter Coffin (who is frankly a bit of a genius), Xylor Jane, whose trippy work will mess with your head in a superb Sol Le Witt way, slick sculptor Mitzi Pederson, and the uber-talented Ara Peterson. Now, with a mix like that, how can you possibly go wrong?
Constraction is showing at Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, New York, from 28thJune 28 — 9th August 09, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
News - Keith Haring's Houston Street and Bowery Mural - NYC
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Keith Haring’s Houston Street and Bowery Mural from 05/04/08 - 12/21/08
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Showing - Blek Le Rat 'Art is Not Peace But War' @ Subliminal Projects - LA
That evening was one of those mashed-up graff nights with D*Face showing down the road at Stolen Space. However, the two exhibitions, which essentially came from the same place, were a world apart. D*Face was, and is, something else. His work has come so far; he is now a fully-fledged, frankly outstanding talent. Blek Le Rat, meanwhile, is a seen it all, been it all, who’s fast being overtaken as the international stencil king by the ubiquitous Banksy. How it will turn out who knows, but one thing’s certain, Mr. Le Rat is where it all started. In fact, you could argue, that without the cheeky Frenchman, Banksy would never have travelled the road he's taken. Come on, where do you think all those rats came from?
Now, Blek Le Rat, like Banksy, is debuting at LA's Subliminal Projects Gallery with a show entitled ‘Art is not Peace But War’. The exhibition represents, in title, the difficulties of working as an artist. Difficulties, which undoubtedly bring forth great things, great thoughts, great work, and great art.
Blek Le Rat 'Art is Not Peace But War’ @ Subliminal Projects Gallery, 1331 Sunset Boulevard, L.A. Until 2nd May 2008.
Friday, April 11, 2008
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