Dive into the archives.
- 2008: Moments: Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
I haven’t been to the theatre very often in the last ten years. I’ve purposefully avoided it. What a lot of people don’t know is that I actually started off as a writer for the theatre, when I was a teenager. One of my favorite playwrights (and hence formative writers) was Harold Pinter. I read [...]
- Holiday Disorientations
This holiday season, why not give the gift of disorientation…
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- 2008: Moments: The Last of Rothko
At the end of his life, Mark Rothko was making black paintings. Black and gray. Like TV static, but without the white: the voidlessness is now upon us. When you get closer, you can make out pale beige shapes, contorted figures, and layers of underpainting - particularly in the lower, lighter panels - something creature-like [...]
- Candice Breitz
My review of the Candice Breitz solo exhibition in Berlin is now online.
- Apollinaire for the digital age
The first review (that I’m aware of) of Disorientations has been published.
Thank you, John Holten and Dogmatika.
- 2008: Moments
I’ve been reflecting a lot on art and films and performances and unclassifiable forms of art I’ve witnessed or somehow participated in throughout the past year. I’m not going to do a “Best Of” post, because that kind of thinking seems totally strange to me. But I will use the next couple weeks, as I [...]
- Deflated: Jeff Koons in Berlin
The two Jeff Koons solo exhibitions currently on in Berlin - one a retrospective of the sculptures, the other a show of new paintings - confirm that Koons is the worst living artist anywhere. Koons is a sort of con man who specializes in “art” for a public that has been conditioned by a general [...]
- The Art World
There’s been a lot of talk lately about “the art world.” The art world is in trouble. This is what the future of the art world will look like. I spent a week in the art world and lived to tell the tale.
In pondering the fate of “the art world” amidst the global economic crisis, [...]
- Disestablishmentarianism
Melissa Mann’s Beat the Dust is not just an excellent online literary magazine — it’s also a bookshop stocking a range of interesting titles. You can now order Disorientations through the site.
And if you’re in the States, I recommend you order through these guys, who also happen to carry all BLATT titles.
- Update, Personal
Complete and utter chaos in my life right now - some good, some bad, but we’ll pull through (mehopes.) Finished a novel, now writing a play, seeing lots of art but no time to sort my thoughts out on paper. Meanwhile, I wanted to thank everyone who made the Disorientations launches in London and Berlin [...]
