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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #50 on: 29 June, 2021, 10:20:09 am »
https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20216/28825/?fbclid=IwAR345FN5WG76mQh-cfyo256uXvq9QU1JK4fyQB8rOMNGdBzmTovzsZYz1qc

Pinchas Zukerman's recent masterclass at New York's Juilliard School has not been broadcast because Zukerman used "offensive cultural sterotypes" when teaching students. According to one of the BTL comments, it isn't the first time he's done this.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #51 on: 30 June, 2021, 03:09:14 pm »
https://twitter.com/BishopstonSch/status/1409784848085131264?s=20    14 year old exhibitor at the RA Young Artists Summer Show  :jurek:
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #52 on: 22 July, 2021, 08:31:50 pm »
A particularly enjoyable Red Hand Files entry from Nick Cave today, I thought:

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/relation-between-you-nick-drake/

I’ve always felt some sort of relation between you and Nick Drake. If you haven’t heard of him he was an artist from England who wrote only about 60 songs about love, regret, happiness and some emotions I can’t really describe. He sadly suffered from depression and died from an overdose only 4 years into his career. I may be very wrong in thinking so but do you feel that you share more than your first name with Drake?
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Dear Raghav and Pamela,

Whenever I have heard Nick Drake’s music over the years I have enjoyed it, but that’s not the reason for replying to your letter, Raghav. I want to tell you a story, a sort of Nick Drake story, and try to answer your question, Pamela, in the process.

Sometime in the early eighties, on London’s Portobello Road, I was approached by a man who wanted to take my photograph. He said that I looked ‘interesting’. He gave me his address and told me to come to his flat the next day. This is before I had developed an acute dislike of having my photograph taken, and when I was dumb enough to think that going to a stranger’s flat to have my photo taken might be a good idea. Anyway, the next day I went to his place, somewhere in Ladbroke Grove.

Inside the flat, the photographer told me he had to set up his camera and asked me to sit and wait on a little sofa in the middle of his rather dark living room. I remember that there was an unsettling atmosphere in the room, heavy and strange, but I sat down anyway.

After a while, I felt a presence behind me, as someone entered the room, walked slowly around the sofa, and then very carefully sat down beside me. It took me a moment to realise that this person, this woman, was the singer, Nico. Now, Pamela, at that time in my young life, Nico, who had sung with The Velvet Underground and made some classic solo albums herself, was, by any measure, a hero, and she was there beside me, sitting very still, and wearing green rubber, knee-high wellingtons. She didn’t speak for a long time. Then she turned slowly toward me, and said, very deliberately, in her thick German accent –

“I knew a boy who was just like you.”

I said, “Oh yeah?”

She said, “He was a singer and his name was Nick.”

And I said, “Well, that’s strange, because I am a singer and my name is Nick.”

And she said, very slowly, “I know.”

Then she said nothing for a while and my mind rushed all over the place, and I’m thinking, “Fuck, I’m sitting next to Nico. Fuck, I’m sitting next to Nico.”

Eventually she said, “He died.”

And I said, “Oh, you mean Nick Drake?”

And she said, “Killed by his own hand.”

And I said, “Well, that’s where we diverge.”

She turned to me and after the longest time said, “Really? That’s what you think.”

Then she stood up and in slow motion walked out of the room.

And I’m thinking, “What the fuck.”

Anyway, the photographer’s way of taking pictures was to have you look in a mirror, in this case, his bathroom mirror, and he would photograph your reflection. As I was arranging my face, there in the mirror, from the end of the hall behind me, Nico appeared, like an apparition, standing very still and looking into the mirror. The photographer took the photo and I said, “I want that one.”

Sadly, I can’t remember what happened to the photos. I’m not sure I ever saw them. But, sitting here now and remembering, I sure would love that photograph.

So, that was the day that Nico, who famously sang ‘I’ll be Your Mirror’, became ‘my mirror’, the day she wore green rubber wellington boots and moved very slowly, the day she prophesied wrongly my self-destruction, and the day she did in no way disappoint. I send the fullest version of my love to her, wherever she may be, and Nick Drake too, all of it.

Love, Nick


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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #54 on: 28 July, 2021, 10:51:01 am »
*I have tastes well above my pay grade  :'(

I want this one: https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/outhouse/

A house for dysunctional families and/or criminals. I've seen enough Scandi-noir to know this.

Wasn't that one on Grand Designs?

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #56 on: 13 October, 2021, 04:50:01 pm »
https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-43/young-poland/


https://twitter.com/McChris85/status/1446882809684058115?s=20


One for the London based people.   "Young Poland" at the William Morris gallery in Walthamstow.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #57 on: 16 October, 2021, 01:07:20 pm »
Vienna tourism board has started an Only Fans account in order to show artworks that Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and so on won't let them show, ie anything involving nudity. Even Rubens.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/16/vienna-museums-open-adult-only-onlyfans-account-to-display-nudes

I'm actually in two minds about this. In the case of classical nudes like Rubens, it's clearly ridiculous, but with artists like Schiele, wasn't part of their intention to be shocking? In which case, that they're still doing so a hundred years later is quite a success.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #58 on: 16 October, 2021, 06:23:43 pm »
Vienna tourism board has started an Only Fans account in order to show artworks that Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and so on won't let them show, ie anything involving nudity. Even Rubens.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/16/vienna-museums-open-adult-only-onlyfans-account-to-display-nudes

I'm actually in two minds about this. In the case of classical nudes like Rubens, it's clearly ridiculous, but with artists like Schiele, wasn't part of their intention to be shocking? In which case, that they're still doing so a hundred years later is quite a success.


I suppose it's a publicity stunt to get people to look at this & then other stuff in their collection, and then pay a visit. It might backfire if the viewers find other stuff on Only Fans to spend their money on... It's not like there is any shortage if Schiele on Twitter.  https://twitter.com/artistschiele   https://twitter.com/nude_artbot


Edit: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/vienna-tourist-board-onlyfans/

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #59 on: 16 October, 2021, 06:25:09 pm »
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/8-october/books-arts/visual-arts/global-images-of-christ-challenging-perceptions-at-chester-cathedral


This was very good.  I'll post some pictures when I've uploaded them.  Chester Cathedral is lovely.  I've never been  :jurek:
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #60 on: 17 October, 2021, 09:59:10 pm »
Finally!  A Reason to visit Milton Keynes* !  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/14/the-life-less-ordinary-of-artist-laura-knight


https://www.mkgallery.org/whats-on/laura-knight-panoramic-view/


https://museumcrush.org/biggest-laura-knight-exhibition-in-over-50-years-heads-to-mk-gallery/


*I used to have to go to interminable meetings there, but the BT office was right next to the railway station, so never saw anything else.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #63 on: 24 October, 2021, 08:52:08 pm »
I saw this print in a shop window yesterday:


I can only positively identify maybe half of them, but they all deserve thanks. Even the ones I don't like.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #64 on: 24 October, 2021, 10:31:28 pm »
Is that Guybrush Threepwood second in from the bottom left?

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #65 on: 24 October, 2021, 10:37:49 pm »
I think it’s supposed to be Adam Ant from his Posey Pirate* phase, unless it’s Alestorm's Christopher Bowes.  Which seems unlikely.

* I wish I still had a copy of the cartoon strip (IIRC it was by Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey) outlining the major differences between Posey Pirates and Real Pirates.  Yarrrrrr!
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #66 on: 25 October, 2021, 09:24:24 am »
Gotta be Adam Ant. He was actually the first face that leapt out at me. Well not so much his face as his hat, to be fair. I'm assuming Kim actually knew this (and that later she will educate me as to who on earth Guybrush Threepwood is – perhaps a YouTuber specialising in heat shrink videos?) but if she genuinely didn't, well...

The absence of the Swedish helicoptering quartet is good (and I say that as a shameless fan).
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« Reply #67 on: 25 October, 2021, 09:36:16 am »
OTOH perhaps row 2 column 4 is Agnetha. I reckon row 1 column 5 is Amy Winehouse – my son reckons it's Cardi B. I reckon row 2 column 2 is Michael Jackson – he reckons it's Rihanna. Hmmm. We're probably both wrong. Row 6 column 3, I say Aretha, he says Nicki Minaj. He did identify for me a few people I would never have recognised such as Ed Sheeran and one I've barely heard of, Oli Mers. We both agree they're mostly not terribly good drawings!
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #68 on: 25 October, 2021, 10:46:50 am »
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1451971683846443015?s=20    A short BBC film about the architecture of Odeon cinemas.
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« Reply #69 on: 25 October, 2021, 12:06:45 pm »
Gotta be Adam Ant. He was actually the first face that leapt out at me. Well not so much his face as his hat, to be fair. I'm assuming Kim actually knew this (and that later she will educate me as to who on earth Guybrush Threepwood is

Guybush Threepwood is a MIGHTY PIRATE, as anyone who had an Amiga in the early 1990s should know.



(You've got to be careful when googling for images, because you'll turn up lots of rubbish from sequels made after computers got good enough for people to do artwork for them without meticulously hand-crafting the pixels.)

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #70 on: 25 October, 2021, 12:36:06 pm »
It probably won't surprise you to learn that, despite buying a Commodore Amiga for the children for Christmas 1989, I didn't know who Guybrush Threepwood was.

I can't recall whether we had Monkey Island. I know we had Rainbow Island, Wizball and New Zealand Story.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #71 on: 25 October, 2021, 12:40:11 pm »
I'm wondering whether Commodore gave their console a feminine name to expand the market to more girls. Anywayz, what were Mr Threepwood's biggest hits? Did he feature on Captain Sensible's "Wot?" ?
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #72 on: 25 October, 2021, 12:48:27 pm »
The project was codenamed 'Amiga' so as not to arouse attention when the developers talked about it in public. The Amiga's architecture was relatively unconventional, with custom ASICs which were given female names off-loading certain tasks (eg. moving Guybrush around the screen without re-drawing the scenery) from the CPU.

Threepwood is best known for his number 1 hit 'Big Whoop'


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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #74 on: 29 October, 2021, 02:43:56 pm »
Wow! I wonder who they were, or indeed if they were specific individuals or generic representations?
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