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Member Since: 24 Nov 2005
Total Topics: 3
Total Comments: 39

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League of Extraordinary Pretensions: Julia Morison ...

Alan Gibbs, the multi-millionaire tycoon art collector, said recently: “With good art, you don’t have to explain it”. Whatever the shortcomings of that statement, he obviously wasn’t thinking o...
Written by Pyrrho 2 Sep 2006 in Reviews 80 Comments
Newest Comment liz 30 Jun 2007 4:46 pm
Most people I know are interested in the arts to some degree and I cant imagine any of them being put...
 
Macromicro1

A triumph for the New Zealand art world

Forget et al. – she / he / it / they have been discussed ad nauseam already.
Written by Pyrrho 17 Aug 2006 in Rants 62 Comments
Newest Comment downtowngal 12 Jun 2010 7:46 am
I was an intern at their office for their magazine, and I read a lot of negative posts on-line about...
 

Art Critical Monopoly?

I am dismayed to see that Andrew Paul Wood is now reviewing for The Press as well as The Listener, Avenues, and no doubt other publications.
Written by Pyrrho 8 Dec 2005 in Rants 9 Comments
Newest Comment Cosmopolitan 1 May 2006 8:58 am
Pyrrho I get your point of view - you merely believe in a seperation of powers and diverse represen...
 
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Round and round we go looping the Artbash loop. I've been round the circuit several times already, and have now had more than enough of it. So best wishes to all of you, as I for one am about to jump ... >>
6 Sep 2006 2:14 pm reply to League of Extraordinary P...
 
An "evisceration" is what Populuxe called it, not exactly "being tickled". (My entrails still seem to be in the same place as normal though, as far as I can tell.) Artbash is seriously high-minded ar... >>
6 Sep 2006 1:56 pm reply to League of Extraordinary P...
 
The spirit of Artbash is ... "to engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism," according to the About Artbash page. Which is what I did, or attempted to do, in writing the above review. "Harsh,... >>
6 Sep 2006 10:28 am reply to League of Extraordinary P...
 
Provoking discussion - absolutely! That's right, William Blake (or can I call you William for short, or Willy?): discussion is also what one hopes will follow from writing an art review, especially on... >>
2 Sep 2006 11:02 am reply to League of Extraordinary P...
 
Dog / god = Mor'ant / Mor'ison To quote Julia re her current show: "I particularly like the way it encourages people to make connections between things that are often opposed - the sacred and the prof... >>
26 Aug 2006 10:40 am reply to A triumph for the New Zea...
 
The Da Vinci Code Excellent point Arthater (love your pseudonym!): I'm not sure it was a very smart move of APW to mention The Da Vinci Code in his review of Julia Morison's exhibition. Didn't he have... >>
25 Aug 2006 7:13 am reply to A triumph for the New Zea...
 
What's happened to NY Arts Magazine? http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/ The link is now coming up with "page cannot be displayed". The fomer link to it on Morant's dealer's site (Alexis Internationa... >>
24 Aug 2006 1:27 pm reply to A triumph for the New Zea...
 
I'll drink to that! Thanks John. Yes, very nicely put. My faith in human nature has now been restored. >>
24 Aug 2006 12:57 pm reply to A triumph for the New Zea...