Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern This got a rather sniffy review from Laura Cumming in the Observer; she found Gallagher’s frequent use of cut outs of thick African lips and “googly”… more →
Blackpaint's Blogwrote 5 days ago: Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern This got a rather sniffy review from Laura Cumming in the Observer; … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Souzou – Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome This is a great exhibition. Lots of surface co … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Alasdair Gray’s “Lanark” In Blackpaint 386, I mentioned the similarities between G … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Tate Modern Some other “new” stuff worth seeing that I didn’t mention last time: B … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Dobell’s at the Chelsea Space Little gallery in the Chelsea Art School complex opposite Tate B … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Titian’s Actaeon Surprising Diana in the Bath – this week’s example of Validating … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Zizek, YODD Year of Living Dangerously (2011). So full of ideas and observations, crackling and fiz … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Jeremy Gardiner at Kings Place This was one of those few exhibitions where you are actually excited … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Lanark The Alasdair Gray trilogy; I’ve arrived at the part where Thaw (I’m assuming this … more →
wrote 2 months ago: More from Tate Collection at yourpaintings Another selection of recommendations from pages 11 … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Stoker Great film, directed by Park Chan-wook, starring Eva Wasikowska, which seems to be dividing … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Philippe Vandenberg at Hauser and Wirth, Piccadilly Belgian painter, roughly painted scenes of flage … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Films that fall into two halves “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” is definitely one ; the n … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Photographers Gallery Fittingly, with Schwitters on at the Tate Britain, the Photographers Gallery h … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Schwitters again As threatened, I have visited this exhibition at Tate Britain again. Second visit … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Lincoln It IS sentimental and over-respectful; too many adoring gazes from black servants, soldiers … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Breaking the Ice: Moscow Art 1960 – 80s I’ve now visited this show again (Saatchi Galler … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape at the Royal Academy Sounds impressive, … more →
wrote 4 months ago: A Bigger Splash at Tate Modern Second review of this exhibition, which I only got half-way round the … more →