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SHUBBAK FESTIVAL 2015
Having spent a period of residence in Egypt, I brought new drawing performances to London’s Shubbak Festival of Arts from the Arab world. I would like to thank the Arts Council of England and Gudran for Art and Development in […]
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A really important article from the Artfund website on the invisibility of Black British artists in the art history, by Eddie Chambers. http://www.artfund.org/news/2014/11/03/the-hidden-history-of-black-british-artists I have written on here more than once about the apparent lack of recognition of non-white artists […]
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My god, it has finally happened. A major art prize has shortlisted an artist NOT from the Big 6 (the 5 major London art schools of RCA, RA, Slade, Goldsmiths and St Martins, plus Glasgow – which figures only rarely […]
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BUYING ART What artworks do artists like to have around them? What artworks do artists buy, trade with other artists, or otherwise acquire, and why? Do artists buy artworks? I was thinking about this when I went to an exhibition […]
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Representation and culture, part whatever (this one’s gonna run and run, I fear … ) and so the culture wars begin … actually they have been pretty quiet wars, but they are on nevertheless. I started writing about the way […]
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PAYING ARTISTS II: THE CAREER TRAJECTORY The problem of not paying artists is much bigger than simply artists being out-of-pocket. It affects the artist’s whole career trajectory, and creates a massive pool of stagnation that ends up in a shocking […]
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IS THE ART WORLD BIASED? Part II of II Why is the “art world” of prizewinners, press darlings and highly visible British artists so unrepresentative of the ethnic make-up of the country, given that we have a lot of diversity […]
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IS THE ART WORLD BIASED? Part I of II It all gets worse.A very good friend of mine applied for an East London painting prize and didn’t get shortlisted. Actually, he didn’t give a toss, but I got pretty upset. […]
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PAYING ARTISTS Imagine turning up to work, putting in the hours, doing such a good job that you are roundly admired, patted on the back, congratulated for your work. Imagine the people talking about you, how good you are in […]
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Tis the season of the art prizes. I saw the announcement of the Catlin art prize today. I’m not really bothered about these kinds of prizes because as a filmmaker it’s completely irrelevant to me, but as a cultural critic […]
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ON THE BLURRING OF ART AND LIFE Last month I blogged about the difficulty of running physical space in London, because of the property values and the sheer expense of it. In the last few months there been some very […]
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We’re still working out what we learned from running Studio 75, but it’s become clear that it’s very difficult to run any kind of independent gallery or exhibition space. That spaces that do exist are largely able to do so […]