Here are the highlights… they were twinkling all over the ceiling in 1980s wedding reception style. There was even a DJ spinning disco tracks to buy art to - and the room was rocking. Whether or not they had money to spend, on Thursday night, The Affordable Art Fair was ... Read More...
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Across the towns, beaches and countryside of West Sussex are placed the Cardboard Reality Interventions of the indefatigable artist, ukulele-virtuoso and friend of The Dabbler, Outa_Spaceman. You may recall that we posted some of these on The Dabbler back in January. Here are some more. We approve. Outa_Spaceman will be providing musical support to Frank Key at his rare ... Read More...
Entry to Frieze, (£27), entitles you to buy: a catalogue and a canvas bag; overpriced art books in the bookstore - and actual works of art, if you are gullible enough can afford them. You can also buy drinks/lunch/dinner in the designer café, or restaurant – all a bit of ... Read More...
Dabblers are strongly urged to visit the Wellcome Collection’s Miracles & Charms exhibition. The photographs above illustrate a few of the hundreds of Mexican miracle paintings on show (click on each photo to read a description of the events depicted, and click again to enlarge the image). Votive paintings encapsulate the ... Read More...
The Poster King, the marvellous Edward McKnight Kauffer exhibition at The Estorick Collection, provokes some thoughts on the advertising of today. The idea that advertising can be art became entirely uncontroversial, or at least it seemed to me, around about the time of the Guinness Surfer ad. But one wonders whether you could make ... Read More...
Postmodernism became enmeshed in the commercial culture it originally set out to critique. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 opens at the V&A today – and money is a major theme. The exhibition includes one of Warhol’s famous pop art dollar signs, from 1981, as a testament to this. And a ... Read More...
When Malty discovers that his be-mulleted German businessman pal Willi bears a startling resemblance to the conceptual artist Hans-Jürgen Schult, it leads him on a meandering philosophical journey that finishes up with Richter's nude wife... This is not about Willi except that were it not for him, I may have ignored ... Read More...
Philip Wilkinson is the author of over 40 books, including The English Buildings Book, and most recently The High Street, written in conjunction with the BBC TV series. Happily for us, he’s also the curator of the English Buildings Blog, a firm favorite here at The Dabbler. In this new ... Read More...
Philip Wilkinson is the author of over 40 books, including The English Buildings Book, and most recently The High Street, written in conjunction with the BBC TV series. Happily for us, he’s also the curator of the English Buildings Blog, a firm favorite here at The Dabbler. In this new ... Read More...
For me, it was Rembrandt's Portrait of His Mother (the one in the Royal Collection), in a black-and-white reproduction in an encyclopaedia. I was 9 or 10 at the time, and this was the first picture I saw that moved me, and gave me an inkling of what a painting ... Read More...
