Oleg Oprisco, and the fine art of photography
I hate to start yet another internet post with “if you’re under 30 you won’t remember this” but actually, if you’re under 30 you won’t [...]
Articles by Carrie McCarthy
Oh Boy, Boy Beardy!
Comedienne Minnie Pearl once said that “kissing a man with a beard is like going on a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little brush to get there.” The [...]
Homeless Jesus brings out the, err, bad Samaritan in North Carolina residents…
Between Tony Matelli’s The Sleepwalker sculpture freaking out the students at Wellesley College, and a homeless Jesus upsetting a neighbourhood in North Carolina, the [...]
Planet Red Earth
In honour of World Earth Day, I thought I’d take you on a wander through the work of Red Earth, an international environmental art group whose core practice revolves [...]
Getting SpirARTul
I have historically given Easter a hard time. Twelve years of Catholic education that coincided with the slow realisation I was gay, quite a bit of travelling through third [...]
Easter For Everybunny (that’s terrible, I know)
As festive periods go, Easter doesn’t have much to offer me. I’m not religious, I don’t eat eggs, I don’t like chocolate, and I have no interest in [...]
Stand By Me – Playing For Change version
After deciding that a poster bought in New Orleans would be today’s inspiration, this was delivered to me by facebook. Sometimes the internet throws up a real gem! A [...]
Real Meals From Cooked Up Tables
Not being particularly food focussed myself, I’ve rarely considered the culinary habits of literary figures. Thank god not everyone is as disinterested in food as me [...]
Toying Around With the Gandini Jugglers
“Damn everything but the circus!” said E.E. Cummings one day, clearly fed up with his literary life. “The average ‘painter’ ‘sculptor’ [...]
Stairwells of NYC
New York is on my mind… The stairwell at the New Museum of Contemporary Art on Bowery, taken [...]
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