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Blackpaint 394 - Lizards and Fossils and Christopher in Cordoba

blackpaint wrote 5 days ago: Ellen Gallagher at  Tate Modern This got a rather sniffy review from Laura Cumming in the Observer; … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Córdoba, Ellen Gallagher, in the mood for love, Moholy-Nagy, Naum Gabo, rachel whiteread, Saloua Raouda Choucair

Blackpaint 393 - Skewed Nipples and Zambian Spacemen

blackpaint wrote 1 week ago: Souzou – Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome This is a great exhibition.  Lots of surface co … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Chabrol, Deutsche Borse, huppert, Madame Bovary, R. Crumb, rebecca ward, Rosemary Trockel

Blackpaint 392 - Penis Gourds, Baobabs, and Marienbad

blackpaint wrote 2 weeks ago: Alasdair Gray’s “Lanark” In Blackpaint 386, I mentioned the similarities between G … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, alasdair gray, billy al bengston, craig kaufman, Holy Motors, Joyce Cary, Lanark, Last Year In Marienbad

Blackpaint 391 - A Pair of Brown Eyes and Storm Clouds on the Volga

blackpaint wrote 3 weeks ago: Tate Modern Some other “new” stuff worth seeing that I didn’t mention last time: B … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, AUERBACH, George Clausen, Gerd and Uwe Tobias, hal holbrook, Kabakovs, Karl Blossfeldt, matt damon

Blackpaint 390 - Blind Gary, Sybil and The Magic Board-Rubber

blackpaint wrote 1 month ago: Dobell’s at the Chelsea Space Little gallery in the Chelsea Art School complex opposite Tate B … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Après vous, Asman's, Blind Gary Davis, bob glass, Dave Carey's Swing Shop, dobells, fiona rae

Blackpaint 389 - The Squirrel and the Orang Utan in Art1 comment

blackpaint wrote 1 month ago: Titian’s Actaeon Surprising Diana in the Bath – this week’s example of Validating … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Bach and Brahms, confidence, Cronenberg, Holbein, István Szabo, medea, Milo O'Shea

Blackpaint 388 - Zizek, Trockel, Callan and Mona

blackpaint wrote 1 month ago: Zizek, YODD Year of Living Dangerously (2011).  So full of ideas and observations, crackling and fiz … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Beuys, callan, Charles Dickens, Dr. David Kelly, Hilda Murrell, little dorrit, Mona Lisa

Blackpaint 387 - The Theory of Validating Crapness

blackpaint wrote 1 month ago: Jeremy Gardiner at Kings Place This was one of those few exhibitions where you are actually excited … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Ben Nicholson, crapness, franz kline, Jankel Adler, jeremy gardiner, John Tunnard, Keith Vaughan

Blackpaint 386 - Abstract and Figurative; Painting the Churches2 comments

blackpaint wrote 2 months ago: Lanark The Alasdair Gray trilogy; I’ve arrived at the part where Thaw (I’m assuming this … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, alasdair gray, Albert Irvin, Jock McFadyen, John Bellany, Joyce Cary, Kristen Scott Thomas, Paula Rego

Blackpaint 385 - Light and Resurrection

blackpaint wrote 2 months ago: More from Tate Collection at yourpaintings Another selection of recommendations from pages 11 … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, alan green, Arthur Boyd, Bill Culbert, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Dan Flavin, Elgar, Falstaff

Blackpaint 384 - I Hate Lists.

blackpaint wrote 2 months ago: Stoker Great film, directed by Park Chan-wook, starring Eva Wasikowska,  which seems to be dividing … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Carrie, Deliverance, Edward Hopper, Gillian Ayres, Ken Russell, lair of the white worm, marnie

Blackpaint 383 - Eva Hesse, Cork Street, Lichtenstein

blackpaint wrote 2 months ago: Philippe Vandenberg at Hauser and Wirth, Piccadilly Belgian painter, roughly painted scenes of flage … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Albert Oehlen, Alf Lohr, Anthony Frost, Chris Ofili, De Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jan Svoboda

Blackpaint 382 - Corpses, Ribbons and Scrapers

blackpaint wrote 2 months ago: Films that fall into two halves “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” is definitely one ; the n … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Henry V (Branagh), Henry V (olivier), Michael Haneke, nigel kneale, once upon a time in anatolia, scrapers, "The Go-Between"

Blackpaint 381- Cutting Edge Stuff

blackpaint wrote 3 months ago: Photographers Gallery Fittingly, with Schwitters on at the Tate Britain, the Photographers Gallery h … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Beatriz Milhazes, Cocteau, Edith Skob, Geraldo de Barros, Holy Motors, laura letinsky, Le Corbusier

Blackpaint 380 - Adams, Attenborough and Lady Chatterley

blackpaint wrote 3 months ago: Schwitters again As threatened, I have visited this exhibition at Tate Britain again.  Second visit … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, ansel adams, Audubon, David Attenborough, Joan Mitchell, Joely Richardson, just jaeckin, Ken Russell

Blackpaint 379 - Respect, Abe; Straight Lines, Kurt.

blackpaint wrote 3 months ago: Lincoln It IS sentimental and over-respectful; too many adoring gazes from black servants, soldiers … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Adam Mars-Jones, john stezaker, kurt schwitters, Lincoln, madmen, Max Ernst, Spielberg

Blackpaint 378 - Urinals and Wooden Specs

blackpaint wrote 3 months ago: Breaking the Ice: Moscow Art 1960 – 80s I’ve now visited this show again (Saatchi Galler … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, A prophet, Arestrup, Breaking the Ice Moscow Art 1960 - 1980s, Garden of th Finzi Contini, Homer Sykes, Ian Beesley, Kabakov

Blackpaint 377 - The Chocolate Staircase and the Shinjuku Thief

blackpaint wrote 4 months ago: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape at the Royal Academy Sounds impressive, … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, Basil Beattie, Constable, Diary of a Shinjuku thief, Douglas Swan, gainsborough, Hoyland, Kristin Scott Thomas

Blackpaint 376 - Naked Wallowing and a Brown Smudge

blackpaint wrote 4 months ago: A Bigger Splash at Tate Modern Second review of this exhibition, which I only got half-way round the … more →

Tags: Michelangelo, World Cinema, A Bigger Splash, Fakes, hockney, jonathan jones, Karen Kilimnik, Marc Chaimowicz, muhl


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