Volume installation at the V&A Went to see Volume at the V&A on Friday. Pretty cool.
Every morning, at around 9:20AM, and then at some time in the early evening, I stare out of my train window at the great Battersea Power Station, which lies right next to the train line on the route into Victoria Station. It’s one of the few highlights of my short commute, second only to the [...]
The Tate Modern’s new Unilever-sponsored turbine hall installation was unveiled yesterday, and has shown itself to be three huuge slides, titled Test Site, from the artist Carsten Höller. What’s more, you can go on the slides, and what with the biggest one being 25 metres tall, and speeds said to be up to 30mph (you [...]
I’m incredibly excited by The Sultan’s Elephant, an enormous moving theatre art piece that’s coming to London from 4-7th May. They’re being deliberately sketchy with the details – I think part of the impact is supposed to come from it being a suprise – but it’s clear that it’s going to be huge. See this [...]
Yikes, in the past couple of weeks I’ve been to see a few ‘cultural’ things that I meant to write about, and haven’t until now gotten around to. First up, I went to see the ‘British-Iranian’ comedian Omid Djalili perform his stand-up show ‘No Agenda’ at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Omid is known to British audiences [...]
I love this idea – the Arts Council England is funding two artist placements at the BBC, one of whom will be working with Creative Archive licensed material, releasing their work back into the wild, with the other having more unrestricted access to BBC archive footage, releasing their works internally to the BBC only. I [...]
The ever-charming René Lavanchy, editor of the UCL Cheesegrater Magazine, leader of the UCL Union ‘Just Say No to the NUS’ campaign, and all-round Union-baiting good-guy, sent me this amusing photo of a modded belisha beacon: Union officials suspected it to be the work of the Cheesegrater, but I’d guess that it was more likely [...]
This is a bit of an experimental video piece that I shot (on my phone) whilst sitting on the Northern Line some time ago. It’s in part inspired by L’Autre, a book of ‘stolen’ portraits secretly snapped on the Paris Metro. I was interested to see how daring I could be in filming people without [...]
The new Saatchi Gallery in County Hall is a great success. I went a while ago and really enjoyed it. Not all the exhibits are good of course, but there’s enough there to keep you interested, and some truely great BritArt works that you recognise but don’t know where from. Walking past, the Saatchi Gallery [...]