Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 118: ‘Ruby Ruby Ruby’
15 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Londoners currently have a threefold chance to consider the work of the LA-based American artist Sterling Ruby (born 1972).
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Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 117: ‘Mirrored in Brown’s’
8 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Brown’s London Art Weekend (3-5 July) helpfully drew attention to 100 galleries in Mayfair and St. James through special openings and events.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN # 116: These Feet Are Made for Painting
1 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Japanese Gutai movement is now seen, not as a late-to-the-party oriental imitation of abstract expressionism, but as a seminal conjunction of painting, performance and the concrete assertion of freedom in the aftermath of Japan’s disastrous war.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a plane # 115: ‘The Famous Fives’
24 June 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The focus shifted to the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), which rose to the challenge magnificently:
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 114: ’A Hundred Women Wanted’
16 June 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in London. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 113: ‘Transformation’
10 June 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
For many years Clemente has spent much of his time in India, and is more Transcultural then Transavantgarde.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 112: ‘The World Museum’
3 June 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
‘Why is it called the British Museum’, I heard someone ask last Saturday ‘when there isn’t anything from Britain?’
ART STUFF on a train # 111: ‘Book the Show vs. Show the Book’
28 May 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The thing about paintings is to see them, right? It’s a bit odd, then, to suggest that the book of Marlene Dumas at the Tate is better than the show, but…
ART STUFF on a train # 110: ‘The Other End of the Journey’
20 May 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
I live in Southampton, even if I’m in London most daylight hours. Recently, though, it’s been well worth attending to my home scene.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN # 109: ‘Uncrushed Dreams’
13 May 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Who’s the best transvestite artist in the country?
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 108: ‘Apple Barnacle Orgasm’
6 May 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s wonderful what obscure byways you can be drawn into if you visit a few shows. Just sticking to natural history:
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 107: ‘Grids Gone Dotty’
29 April 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Both counter the expectation that money is paid for skilful product of the painter’s hand:
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 106: ‘Batchelor of Books’
22 April 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The magazine announced itself to be plain of aspect and devoid of colour, as befitting a heavyweight theoretical journal – so Batchelor* cocks a snook by colouring in one side of every page, adopting a range of circular, triangular and rectangular motifs to achieve a varied rhythm. That makes for 58 sheets of geometric rainbow interventions.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 105: ‘Game of the Name’
15 April 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Given that artists are brands of a sort, it would be no surprise if having the right name can impact on the chances of success.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 104: ‘Not Quite Shangri-La’
8 April 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
You might have thought that Shezad Dawood had had his London moment with last spring’s comprehensive solo at the Parasol Unit… But no….
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 103: ‘Foolish at the Tate?’
1 April 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Dan Flavin: ‘Untitled (to Alan Shepard in honour of the upward and downward journey)’, 1984 I’ve mentioned before that it’s… Read More
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 102: ‘The Use of Painting’
25 March 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Really, what’s the use of painting? Successful works just take up wall space which could have been used for shelving
Paul’s ART STUFF on a Train # 101: ‘I Fink it’s a Face’
18 March 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Graham Fink (at Riflemaker to 21 March) is a pareidolian: he sees faces all over the place. That’s picked up in witty photographs which land somewhere between gestalt and abstraction by discovering visages in peeling walls, clouds and rock formations etc. True, I’ve seen that done before, but the surprising variety and specificity which Fink discovers gives his images an extra dimension. He displays a selection of these on monumentalising slabs of marble.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 100: ‘Sexual Services’
11 March 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
50 artists respond to an invitation to provide items for an alternative and somewhat deranged Sex Shop it’s great fun.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 99: ‘Rugged’
4 March 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Not rugged as in craggy or bewigged looks, but as in hirsuteness hung on the wall. Quite plausibly the world’s two leading exponents of the art rug are featured in current London shows.
ART STUFF on a train # 98: ‘Abstraction and Tragedy’
25 February 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015’, featuring 100 artists, is full of interesting byways in the history of geometric abstraction,
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 97: ‘Tits and Cocks and Wallpaper’
18 February 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Wallpaper may suggest stifling domesticity rather than cutting edge art but two artists are currently using it to radical effect.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 94: ‘Video To Go To’
11 February 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rotterdam’s art week – 3-7 Feb – continues to increase in popularity. The main fair, Art Rotterdam, had 132 galleries with 25,000 visitors, and there’s plenty else to see. Video art in particular is presented better than at any comparable event.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 93: ‘Smash ‘n’ Burn’
4 February 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Destruction brings with it an exhilaration and a definite aesthetic, however regrettable it is, and two of the most striking exhibits in London now play on that.