Tag: Art

  • Nearly half a bicycle

    The atomic theory in Kilburn — This place (on Kilburn High Road) has been morphing steadily from dry cleaner’s to bike shop over the last few years. I remember being…

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  • Art book sale!

    I’m having a bit of a clear-out. Here are some of the art books I’ve accumulated over the years. All priced to sell (I don’t think you’ll find any of…

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  • Paragraphs about AI

    All these thoughts I keep having about AI, I’m going to put them here… — Jared Bush, writer/codirector of Zootopia 2 and Chief Creative Officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios,…

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  • Seeing Vincent

    Tate Britain, London, 2019.

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  • Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

    The Pussy Riot case is an affront to humanity, a miserable, dispiriting state-sponsored kicking for three angry free spirits. It’s so depressingly like the kind of relentless, malevolent crucifixion handed…

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  • You know, actual curation

    Everyone’s going on about curation these days. We’re all curators now. But yesterday I witnessed some of the old-fashioned variety, the kind they do in art galleries, and I was…

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  • Really suffering for your art

    Everyone says music is getting more physical again. We continue to get our daily sounds from ever more insubstantial sources, floating above us like those glittering landscapes in Neuromancer, but…

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  • Wow

    Supernaturally vivid photo-real illustrations from Japan. Link courtesy Things (I think).

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  • Accidental pavement art

    Don’t ask me why I took these photographs. I think they look like a Sol Lewitt photogrid…

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