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Review
When Charles Saatchi’s gallery opened in South Bank, with its notorious list of headliners (chunks of frozen human blood, sump oil lagoons and rooms full of chopped-up cattle), one small corner was devoted to a collection of newspaper cartoons lampooning the works. My favourite was one in which an Eskimo, gazing at Damien Hirst’s pickled…
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The pure potential of a page
Gail Hastings’ e-book, Missing, is not a catalogue or a monograph. It isn’t even really that comfortable with the moniker ‘artist book’. It stakes out an entirely different territory altogether, challenging the very limits of the ‘page’. The book is not a collection of reproduced images that serve as impoverished reiterations of pre-existing artworks. It is a…
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Gail Hastings – Exhibition: To Do
Gail Hastings has a solution for creating work that might return to her studio (rather than to a museum or private collection). Gail Hastings’ major new work Exhibition: To Do is anchored around a large square plywood structure that sits on the earth’s axis – the walls respectively facing north, south, east and west. The visitor is…
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In the loop July 24: quick picks
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Trash or treasure
JOHN MCDONALDJanuary 17, 2009 — 11.00am Weblink RARELY has a slighter show had a more grandiloquent title than To Make A Work Of Timeless Art, a selection of pieces acquired from the Primavera exhibitions held at the Museum of Contemporary Art every year since 1992. Primavera was initiated by a bequest from the Jackson family in honour of…
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The Lost Album – Is It for Me?
The Lost album is an essential acquisition. And it’s not just for the songs — RF’s liner notes are worth the CD price alone! Overall, what you get with this album is a sense of the early influences and, critically, how they, in many ways, continued to shape the future: particularly, the distinctive rhythm guitar…
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An emailed note concerning an art talk by Gail Hastings
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If Anything.
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Passing Time: The Moet & Chandon Exhibition 2000
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All this and Heaven too