Website Developments

I have tried a new add-on for my slideshow galleries. it works well on my computer but if someone on Windoze or Linux could check and let me know that would be good. It’s flash based (sorry) but much nicer than my previous setups.

Nudes Spreading Peace

My art belongs to the people of India,“ Husain said in an interview published in The Times of India on Tuesday. ”I’m more concerned about art reaching the common people.“ Husain, who comes from a Muslim family, was forced to leave India several years ago because of threats against his life over paintings in which he portrayed Hindu deities in the nude.

It’s killing me

It turns out Liam and I are quite sick, the doctors have told us firmly to take it easy…. I have so many great painting ideas, a whole new super edgy series I am just dying to paint. but everytime I try I just feel worse.

Warcrimes highlighted by Nudity

Now, Mr. Botero, 73, who lives in Paris and New York, has taken on an even more explosive topic: the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Forty-eight paintings and sketches – of naked prisoners attacked by dogs, dangling from ropes, beaten by guards, in a mangled heap of bodies – will be exhibited in Rome at the Palazzo Venezia museum on June 16. “These works are a result of the indignation that the violations in Iraq produced in me and the rest of the world,” Mr. Botero said by telephone from his Paris studio.

are we trying to be the brand?

Groove, by minxdragonSo Hirst has his glass boxes, medical stuff and ridiculous spot paintings (no one want his swirl pictures, it seems…), Emin recycles her biography ad nauseam, Rachel Whiteread populates galleries with mouldings, Anthony Gormley populates the world with mouldings of himself, and so on…… But too much variety doesn’t sell as well as one solid brand, as any ad man will tell you, and art practice now has been poisoned by money. Ironic that so many artists consider themselves above the grubby world of commerical art, isn’t it?