Archive for the “London” category
Cy Twombly in London
by Travis Jeppesen on May 1, 2009
Over at WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art, you’ll find my review of Cy Twombly’s current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery.
2008: Moments: Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
by Travis Jeppesen on December 28, 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 (…)
2008: Moments: The Last of Rothko
by Travis Jeppesen on December 18, 2008
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 (…)
Richard Serra at Gagosian Britannia
by Travis Jeppesen on November 8, 2008
The philosophical rigidity of Richard Serra’s sculptures stands for raw endurance. They last, they extend themselves past momentary interpretations, and yet they are not momentous; rather they nearly pass as organic forms. One at Gagosian is a vaginal maze that (…)
Ryan Trecartin at Whitechapel Gallery
by Travis Jeppesen on November 8, 2008
Having sat through so much bad video art in the past, I had until fairly recently come close to giving up on the medium altogether. Lately, however, my prejudices have been dissolving, as a new generation of video artists — (…)
London Book Launch: November 2nd
by Travis Jeppesen on October 22, 2008
See you there!
Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
by Travis Jeppesen on May 22, 2008
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps (…)
Climbing the Anal Staircase: The Art of No Bra
by Travis Jeppesen on May 4, 2008
I. They say No Bra is all tits and wonder, but they’re wrong. There’s also a lot of cock, and even some fake mustache. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music that makes fun of the masses – or (…)
While we’re on the subject of aliens…
by Travis Jeppesen on May 1, 2008
I wrote this review for Think Again magazine; I thought I’d include it here because I picked up the book at the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art show at the Barbican when I was in London. It was actually the (…)
