It’s time again to reviews the reviews of 2009. Some have been good, some bad. Overall they have all been reviews, and reviewing them only serves to review the fact that they have, all in their own way, been reviews. Some have been lists, some have been long-winded TV shows hosted by Jimmy Carr. Here [...]
Apparently frivolity outweighs solemnity at Anish Kapoor’s RA exhibiton (showing till 11th December). Well, I didn’t think so. And I know everything about art. Obviously. The exhibition is good fun, the work is accessible, which is probably why it was packed. There is a canon firing blood red wax blocks, a room full of odd [...]
Yes, yes, I have been going on about this. But what the hell, it was fun. Last Monday Mi shot a music video starring Richard E Grant, and I was Creative Director. There is more of a story about it all here. My last two posts were my attempt to blog from my phone on [...]
So, not halfway through yet. And behind schedule. On the plus side the catering was really good, and our Hollywood star is being brilliant. Especially considering he spent all morning getting slapped……
So you spend months planning, re-writing treatments, getting crew together, juggling budgets, hunting locations, and all other manner of stuff, and then eventually the shoot day arrives. Then, really, you are at the mercy of time, and Lady Luck. Today is that day and so far things are good. I’ll post again in a bit…….and [...]
Those of you whom have walked along the Southbank recently can’t have failed to notice that the Tate Modern has gone all street (n ting). On the day I went for a bit of a nosey there was even a bike jump contest in full flow. All this has however led to much confusion in [...]
Last year in Manchester a judge decided to jail two graffitti artists. Unfortunately jail is now full, so they had to be released. At least the wise old judge had the right idea through; I was recently in Brighton where the council has actually set aside some walls for graffitti. Unbelievable eh? We don’t want [...]
Inside a very dull black and white gallery near King’s Cross is a very colourful exhibition. According to the blurb “Hodgkin’s paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex textures, daring, voluptuous palette, and dynamic interchange of light and dark.” This is of course art speak for big splodgy blobs of colour. However [...]
