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absentia, re-mixed

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Visuals by Mika Tennekoon.

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Plan

Thursday, November 3, 2011

I do not intend to grow old in a house full of pot-plants and prints.

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Our little secret – 1

Monday, August 15, 2011

I love taking you to galleries and pretending I don’t ‘get’ the art (while looking at the pashmina girls over your shoulder).

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Other ways of seeing

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

An A-W of (alternative) artistic terminology   Arte Povera – affordable art Brücke, die – German successors to the Fauvists (later disbanded amid accusations of Fauvoritism) colour – the new ‘black’ deconstruction – critic’s hatchet-job Edvard Munch – AaaaaaaaAAAAARRRGHH!! Freud – act of ripping people off Gauguin – one employed in knocking out Tahitian pearl […]

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15 years of laughing at ‘Art’

Monday, June 13, 2011

Critic (and diarist) ASH Smyth reflects on the pitfalls of modern art, the vagaries of friendship, and the comic role he’s always wanted.   ‘My friend Serge has bought a painting…’  1997. Ish . See ‘Art’, Yasmina Reza’s comedy of mannerism, for the first time (Wyndhams Theatre, London). Show has hit the West End running: […]

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Sarnath Banerjee has his own aesthetics

Monday, March 15, 2010

only they’re a bit… wonky. Interview and slide-show with Delhi’s finest graphic novelist. — For theartsdesk

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Colombo’s inaugural* Art Biennale*

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Letter from the CAB. — * Don’t get me ** started. — For theartsdesk

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Southampton docks to Brixton Beach

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Interview with artist and novelist Roma Tearne. For The Oxford Times.

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