Intermittent Broadcast

 

this is why I have a problem with people saying that cringe is actually good because it’s earnest. Often, it’s just gross https://t.co/jF2Sr9khBL

— Silenced on Site (@77_steeze) November 21, 2022

Puff The Magic Dragon

thetimes.co.uk  - photography

I make no claims or denials. I think it's interesting, liminal as it were.

It's better in its original context

Update 07/08/22: The world turns.

I Pet Goat II

I can't remember the last time I saw something this good. I want to write about it extensively but I think there's no need. If you see some symbolism you think I may have missed please do leave a comment.

How To Transfer Money From Public To Private Hands? - Why Austerity Of Course

There are only two artists that matter to me in British creative commentary. They are the Artist Taxi Driver and Banksy. They never put a foot wrong and see the world as I do. This is why their art is important and gives me strength. You can follow The Artist Taxi Driver on Twitter where he is known as @ChunkyMark

The British People's Long Toxic Affair With Tabloids

Another instant classic by @ChunkyMark The Artist Taxi Driver

Mr Fucking Tesco

Careful of the growth hormones Tesco puts in their meat products.

Emile de Antonio - Reality Is Radical

Art is many things but one thing that is definitely art is doing something deliberately for the first time. In this respect Emile de Antonio is one of United States greatest artists of all time. There are so few from the privileged classes who had the courage to report on what the power elite were doing. Even fewer reported on their peers.

798

I paid a visit to the 798 'Art District' of Beijing on Friday for the 'Affordable Art Beijing' exhibition run by Tamsin Roberts of Red T Art.

The last time I was last in the area, it was for the Yen Countdown on New Years Eve. This time had a chance to walk about in the daylight and get a feel for the Bauhaus architecture and general post war 50's East German industrial influence.

Its pretty neat, in that way that only proper industry can do and the industrial estates of Basingstoke fail at miserably don't you think? Anyway here's some art.

I just liked the comical feel to these. We've been having a discussion on Facebook about art which could go on forever but I think good art should just send people up a bit as much as possible.


This one though in the green was just the right amount of sinister and beauty I like. I was really disappointed not to bag, it as it had been bought by the time I arrived, although I may be able to see the artist at his studio at some point.


I really loved this fading and aging Commie girl complete with pigtails from whatever revolution was being espoused at the time. She's just the wrong side of 50 and a little too old to be putting it about. Its the breasts and neckline that give it away. Brilliant.


Like most of the paintings this was part of a set and the eyes were amazing. Magnetic, hypnotic a little bit attractive, a little bit scary and very sexual.

Yen Countdown

The PRC, being run in a top down sort of affair has allocated a district in Beijing solely for the artist community. It's called 798. I don't normally approve of art-under-duress but on New Years Eve I made an exception.