art

some splatty oil painting in a belgian art gallery. worth clicking on to enjoy the coloured moonscape

dali melting clock and big ben big clock

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esther made this fantastic easter art thing at school

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i walked past this piece of board on the floor and a few steps later i stopped and went back to it.
i thought it looked a bit like the back of a cheap picture frame. so i took a photo of it undisturbed then gently lifted it up and leant it against the wall.
who would have thought such a [insert your own adjective here] picture would be left lying in the street.

someone taking a picture of a girl wearing a cardboard box outside liverpool street station.

if you haven’t been and seen the tate modern Nauman exhibit i’d recommend a trip. it’s not quite as dramatic as the sun but still worth a trip.

a strange flashing thing dangling from a shop. that’s art that is.

here is a giant pointing finger floating in the sea in Stockholm.

kezia finger painting:

esther’s painting;

esther’s vegetable vehicle (driven by her (my) little poney):

this is actually quite cool. walk down charing cross road and look out for it in a window.

here’s an interesting thing. it was a reflection on the road from the sun in a name plate on an office.
my first thoughts were that it was a crown with a cross on top. aha i thought. It’s Jesus – golden crown, the cross etc.
but then i noticed the legs of the person and it looks more like someone arriving at the top of an escalator, or someone on a running machine.
what do you think it looks like ?

an empty gallery with a bottle a mineral water in a spot light. nice.

there’s an empty room in the tate modern at the moment which is art. that’s my kind of art.
but in the window space was this dead bird (taxidermied i assume). interesting that it should turn up the same day as the dead cat .
and, as always, i passed the Slough dead dog in a box today too …

as you may know lots of Saatchi’s art got accidentally burnt in a fire in a storage facility. Many of this was stuff by the YBA (young british artists).
the most famous of the YBAs is arguably damien hurst, famous for his shark in formaldehyde. esther thouht she’d have a go at that and produced a cat head in a little pot of water.
is this the first piece in the new ‘even younger british artists’ movement ?

remember the pallets i thought might be art because they said they were an art exhibition ? i sent an email to jeremy lim because his address was on the poster.
today he emailed me back and i popped in on the way to the station this evening.
the art was in fact downstairs next to the pallets (so it wasn’t a street installation afterall). the show was on the theme of ‘bags’ and there were some really good exhibits by some students (a really nice bunch)
here is a photo of the make-shift gallery. not a great photo but i was intimidated by the proper artists there.

many thanks of jeremy to inviting me to the closing night of the show (and for the drink)

i passed this on the way to the station this evening. it’s a load of pallets (you know the things you use to carry heavy things about on lorries) and was outside a non-descript building with seemingly no art establishment connection.
chances are it’s just the packaging, but it could be the art itself. you never know these days.

here is the sign (click for big version to see why i was confused):

if it is the art then it’s ironic because it’s called “bagged” but is actually pallets. if it’s not then it should be the art.
i’m going to email the email address on the sign and see if they can tell me. i’ll let you know.
update: full story here