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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Writing about Performance Art Part 2: The broom cupboard by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith

The broom cupboard by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Berlin Jerxheim 2008.
When I was a child, a dreaming child midst the objects of my world, my parents often took off to go to parties. They never left me alone at home. They never asked a baby-sitter to look after me. They took me along, and between late [...]

Libidinous Lines: New York-based artist Michael Bilsborough

Heart of Glass, 2007, ink on paper, 38″ x 50,”

Excerpt of an interview by Thomas Hollingworth for MAP Magazine’s latest issue.

I have been away from my home country for sometime now but when I look at Michael Bilsborough’s depictions of savage debauchery and hedonistic excess my wistfulness vanishes, replaced by a longing of a very [...]

FEATURE: THE COLLAPSE IN PAINTING. Sally O’Reilly explores the embarrassing potential of the medium.

On a recent visit to the BALTIC in Gateshead, someone pointed out that there was a ‘shed aesthetic’ going on. Phyllida Barlow’s precarious constructions, Veli Granö and Tuovi Hippelainen’s rickety railway and corrugated iron cinema and Bob and Roberta Smith’s forest of signs with a central outhouse-like structure certainly seemed perilously home-made. It was as [...]