Posts Tagged ‘art’

Fans of light trickery and abstract imagery should visit this exhibition before it ends on March 27th (and hope when they get there that it's not too crowded)…..

Last weeek I was supposed to go to Brighton for the day. I'd planned to attend a sewer tour with the Brighton Flickr group, and hoped to see the Charley Harper exhibition and had booked an advance train ticket to save money (less than a tenner instead of over twenty quid). Unfortunately, due to the [...]

IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View [Art Fag City] – I know this has been blogged by everyone ever, but that's because it's a really lovely, thoughtful piece, and as it happens, the images are all really good. Go read.

The Treehouse Gallery – "The Treehouse Gallery is an innovative public project featuring a free daily program of events, arts, musicology and activities in Regent's Park, London. Open from 19th July until 6th September."

In search of the Atom Style / Atomium 58: 14 visies [Comics and Architecture post #3] – And speaking of the retrofuture, I want to go to these exhibitions at the Atomium in Brussels. Amazing building, wonderful art, lovely beer, who wants to come with me? I'm thinking first weekend in September (it finishes on [...]

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics and Architecture post #2] – And talking about comics and architecture, I'm quite curious to read this book, even though there's something about the art that slightly puts me off (the colours I think) But the attention to design detail sounds very impressive. "I think there’s at [...]

Architects Journal on the Top 10 comic book cities [Comics and Architecture post #1] – Meant to post this last week. Obviously it's got different stuff to what I'd have chosen — I'd have included Carla Speed McNeil's wonderful Dome of Anvard City from her comic Finder, and Rian Hughes' retrofuturistic version of London in [...]

Those people following me on Twitter will probably have noticed how lacklustre I've been feeling this past week. I'd put it partly down to the weather, even though the fact that summer seems to be over actually didn't come as a surprise to me. The make-up induced allergy that caused my face to painfully erupt [...]

I'm not really a fan of Annie Leibovitz's photos (I don't always like the way they're lit, and find that they tend to lack a certain spontaneity), but I like this quote from her: "The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so [...]

Little People – a tiny street art project: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MEN OF TOMORROW? – new solo show – new solo show 'Whatever Happened to the Men of Tomorrow?'