Absinthe by Spiegelworld
“Everyone should be fucking clapping right now, unless you’re that one asshole who won’t clap for anything the whole show.” And so begins the latest [...]
June 2015
Controlled Chaos
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos, lurks an even eerier type of order.” [...]
Ilya Zomb
Okay, imagine you’re a sorcerer with a massive magic cauldron in front of you, and you’ve been tasked with creating today’s artist. You know they’re [...]
Bruno Walpoth, Grand Carver of Soul
I’m not sure I believe the whole ‘every living thing has a soul’ business (I mean, how much soul can a brussel sprout really have?) but if there is any [...]
Erin M Riley’s TapArseTry
When I think of tapestry, I think of my grandparents’ house. Each room had at least a couple hanging on the walls. Not the expansive (and expensive) Belgian ones that [...]
Monica Rohan’s Fall to Grace
It’s a funny sort of self portraiture that keeps the face hidden. I’ve never fully understood why an artist does it. Is it because they don’t want the work [...]
Damien Hirst at Fifty
I’m having a midlife crisis on Damien Hirst’s behalf. He turned fifty on the weekend, and from what I’ve seen of people who turn fifty, it’s no [...]
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