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 […]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Context is everything, so it was interesting to find my old copy of Something Beginning With O by Kevin Pearce on top of a cupboard in my mother-in-law’s house. Unlike said cupboard, the world has changed a lot over the ten years (or thereabout[…]

Despite the increasingly obsessive reporting of the BBC News Technology section, I don’t believe that we’re overwhelmed by information pollution. Adverts, spam, pop-ups and so on are a matter of technique rather than overload. In fact, […]

Tidying Up Art by Ursus Wehrli will be found in the “Humour” section of your local Waterstones, next to horrors such as The Little Book Of Management Bollocks and Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. Don’t be misled – Tidy[…]

Cara Massimina by Tim Parks
This has one of those irritating cover blurbs where it’s obvious why they put it there, but it’s misleading. ‘Better than Silence of the Lambs,’ says the LA Times. If that would lead you to expect s[…]

I ONLY JUST FOUND THIS OUT! :( :( :(
Walter Potter’s Museum of Curiosities, most recently based the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, is closed forever, and the collection has been broken up for auction!! They even tried to contact Damien Hirst to s[…]

‘pater le bourgeoisie long ago went intraclass tribal (and tiresome): elements of the Bourg yokking it up when something they appreciate irritates THAT LOT over yonder, then suddenly all self-righteously pompous when THAT LOT’s art riles […]