There is a picture that hangs in our back hallway. It’s an original – pastels on paper – in a rudimentary, colourful style. The artist is my fiancee, Isabel, and the subject is our rabbit, who died yesterday. She was very important […]

Lola was a smart, funny, sexy, tiny art rag from toronto, whose reviews did not run past 150 words, and ran things like the history of urine or art, or a paris art tour from an aging queen using the ballad of lucy jordan as inspiration. The words wer[…]

Guido Crepax has died. It’s hard not to have mixed feelings about the material this Italian comic creator chose. There’s often a fine line between sexual freedom and liberation for female characters, and old-fashioned exploitative porn, a[…]

Puerile art that someone from B3TA sneaked into their local paper. Or so it would appear. If you don’t recognise what it’s actually a picture of, all the better for you. I promise the next thing I blog here will be proper culture, and no […]

(With apologies.)
1) It probably didn’t hurt that the room is air conditioned in this absurdly hot summer but I’ve loved being in and around Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet more than anything else in the last few weeks. I don&#8217[…]

Tony Hart’s Gallery still open to submissions from the public if you never managed to get a submission shown on telly. Tony was recently asked “Do you think you could take Rolf Harris in a fight?” in a recent B3TA interview.[…]

David Sentis is one of the best techincal painters to come along in recent memory. His skill as a draughtsman combines a concern with object and a worry about humanism, his colour sense sneaks quietly into the viewer and he refuses to allow form to t[…]

Hokusai in Two Art Contests
(a footnote to my comments about Hokusai below) Art was often treated as a competitive spectator sport in Japan two hundred years ago. Hokusai often took an astoundingly original approach.
In one he commandeered an open sp[…]

Tigers and Cockerels and Lobsters
I’m a big fan of Japanese arts, and I hadn’t been to the British Museum in a few months. I was disappointed that the regular Japanese room was closed, but there was something in one of the print rooms (4t[…]

Last Thursday evening I saw the trailer for the five-part Matthew Barney art flick The Cremaster Cycle. I’d heard a little bit about this series, caught the few last words at the end of one or two conversations. Little Adam said, “like […]