What do I think I’m doing…
Delineation of ‘Theory’: An artist’s statement Shaun Belcher November 2009 Like a viewer lodged behind a camera obscura that which I describe in the following short article may appear upside …
Merry Artmas from Moogee
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A Dozen of everything : End of year humbuggy anti-list
I’m not a great fan of all this end of decade , ampoule end of year list thing…seems like an excuse to pretend you know more than someone else or …
The Real Art World: Hornsey College of Art : London’s Burning 1980
Hornsey Art College burns…a great start.. I am going to describe the 1980’s artworld as it really was for the majority of art-students. Not the cosy new money YBA’s and …
Thinking whilst making things – a challenge – beyond the crisis in art
I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl’s take on the present state of art criticism. This is by way of a practice …
Academic Artist? Oxymoron?
There was a time when the phrase ‘academic artist’ was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, …
Is traditional publishing dead? Next Wave..
This a response to some interesting issues raised by a CNET video on future of the book. Basically the incoming changes are going to revolutionise the whole concept in a …
Nottingham Contemporary the good, the bad and the ugly
I have recently had to pull a discussion post from the Nottingham Contemporary Free discussion group on facebook. Here I explain why and deliver a more considered version of basically …
Tools for thinking about the contemporary art world
Following a very interesting post by Rob Van Beek in the Nottingham Contemporary Free Discussion Group on Facebook I replied to the following which was last paragraph in a much …
Damien Hirst – the Emperors New Clothes fall away….finally
Fake artists, patient fake academics..a sad low, buy dishonest decade (to paraphrase Auden) of infantile, greedy pseudo intellectuals… and here the best of them all…greedy bankers, brit artists, mps expenses….spot …