DOGVILLE One of the more baffling criticisms levelled at Danish enfant terrible, Lars Von Trier (alongside charlatan, bully, brat, misogynist’) is the one about manipulation. Not because it’s untrue, far from it. This is a man who clai[…]

R.I.P. Tony Thompson
I don’t suppose too many of us are able to say an awful lot about what makes one drummer better than another – I’m certainly not. Still, I wanted to mark that probably my second favourite drummer ever (behind th[…]

mario merz ‘s art was alive, in its use of the fibonacci sequnces, in the chaotic rigour of his installations, in how they crawled and galloped over gallery walls and cellings, how they were claimed from daily life.
he started, or was one who […]

Decide for yourself. ‘The Theory of Everything’, called ‘The Elegant Universe’, in the US is available to watch online at PBS’s Nova site.[…]

A Prince amongst men: I saw those Richard Prince paintings when they were at Sadie Coles HQ in London earlier this year. I’m pretty sure I liked them: I can remember enjoying being in the space, I think I even went to the show twice. I can also[…]

OH NO! WE’RE ALL DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!! Yes, Horizon is back on BBC2, and this time it’s serious. The conveyor belt might stop you know [insert generation game cuddly toy joke here]. I don’t know why they stopped calling it the gulf […]

Richard Prince-Nurse Paintings.
A nurse is a mother/whore combined in one women, who will clean up yr puke and give you a comfort handjob all in the same night & because they comfort acts of violence, acts of violence are mythologized against t[…]

Certain days require anything but the hard graft of a gritty drama, so it was a pleasure to find Stephen Fry swearing elegantly this evening. He was on QI – a deliberately barely structured conversation of a programme, which hopes to muster e[…]

Chinese jade
There are about ten 20th Century prints in a corridor near the Korean room; and in the lobby of the rear entrance a case holds about as many very old pieces of pottery; and so much for Japan at the British Museum. Prehistory and the last[…]

Things that do make me proud of one of my adopted teams: Manchester City’s Bell End. Well done Colin and big smelly BOOs to John Wardle, who HATES FUN.[…]