Backtracking: The High Priests 1990 – 1993
After a casual conversation which involved Joe Meek and Beat Happening I decided to excavate some of the original High Priests material which had been scattered to the wind. It …
AXIS RANT #2: Alice and the Curious Curatoriat
When did it happen? When did the power structure in the arts shift so fundamentally away from the practicing artist and into the hands of a new breed of art …
Leonard Bullock
More Blues than Jazz? Not Garage Rock? Leonard Bullock, look ‘To/For Whom It May Concern,’ 2001-2008 Oil, encaustic, polyurethane, venetian turpentine, spray paint, collaged fabric, car decals, monster decals, cat …
Time to close down The Arts Council? My AXIS RANT
From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back… http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18075 Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, view Shaun Belcher, thumb starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking ‘has …
Saatchi..you having a laugh? LOL
I still in a state of shock but thought I’d cut and paste here as well just in case it all an administrative error and when I wake up all …
Withering away in the Jackson Cage?
Bruce Springsteen lyric from The River album Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage Well darlin’ can you understand The way that they will turn a man Into a stranger to …
Splintering…the web starts to unravel…
I have been reading some interesting post-iPad observations on the ‘t’internet as Peter Kay’s mum would call it and it all pointing to a happier bunch of mums and a …
Musing on Modernism
The reflective nature of Facebook means I can post short links then muse upon responses..I then cut and paste here as a kind of ‘sketchbook’ for later theorising….a work in …
THE NEW MODERNISM
[Draft: open for revision – discussion] “We cannot obscure the creative phenomenon independently of the form in which it is made manifest. Every formal process proceeds from a principle, here …
New Year’s resolution: Sharkforum Chicago
Some kind soul in Chicago chose this as example of a New year’s resolution 🙂 http://www.sharkforum.org/2009/12/shaun-belcher-and-moogee-new-y.html check out sharkforum http://www.sharkforum.org