Renaissance Utterances

'suspended' It has been an orgy of art since I arrived back in London just over a week ago. Russian/Communism inspired exhibitio...

M Hodge "Bear's Dream" 2012 It's taken me a year to finally get around to this piece but it somehow seems appropriate...

These notes were quite difficult to write up because in the end I wasn't sure what I wanted to say. I'm seriously regretting not g...

This review has been sitting on my bookshelf for a few years but I still think it has something of value to say about Mark Rothko . Revisit...

This is a follow on from the Modernism posting and is also inspired by the current exhibition at Tate Britain on Picasso (and I may even h...

Yesterday took me to my first pop up art exhibition. And it’s going to take some beating in terms of both the art and the venue. Far away fr...

A few years ago I wrote a piece about the commoditisation of art and then this week an article in the Independent rekindled my interest. Th...

Let me put this to you straight; I don't have an issue with Valentine's Day. I am secretly an old fashioned romantic and a day in co...

I have been meaning to thank Nick Lambrianou  from the 'Shock of the New' course at  Birkbeck College for some time. I went into th...

Sex has been very much on my mind recently. One way or another I've been confronted with a lot of sexual imagery. What with art (Johnath...

It is difficult to be unaware of the ubiquitous QR codes which are popping like some kind of technological graffiti. And without a reader th...

Vibrating deep within the hall With the thrilling stirring Swirling notes The musician sits in our centre; Circles of light rippling out...