Posts tagged "london"

November 18, 2010
Theo Adams Company’s Cry Out at London’s ICA, December 18 - 19, 2010. 

Theo Adams Company’s Cry Out at London’s ICA, December 18 - 19, 2010. 

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New Muntean / Rosenblum show opening tomorrow down the road at Maureen Paley (Bethnal Green, London). Weeeeeee! 

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November 16, 2010

Mat Collishaw’s Creation Condemned currently on show at Blain/Southern London. Message me with your email address for images and installation views. 

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Adam Fuss’ Home and World opens tomorrow at Timothy Taylor Gallery, 15 Carlos Place, London.

Adam Fuss’ Home and World opens tomorrow at Timothy Taylor Gallery, 15 Carlos Place, London.

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“When morphine for injection was first introduced it was often injected just under the skin rather than intravenously, though this could lead to abscesses and scarring as shown here. This ‘morphinomaniac’ subject was a male nurse pictured shortly before his death.” (Illustration by H H Kane, 1881 - courtesy Wellcome Images) Yo, Londoners! Get your lazy arses to Euston’s Wellcome Collection to check out their new show High Society. 

“When morphine for injection was first introduced it was often injected just under the skin rather than intravenously, though this could lead to abscesses and scarring as shown here. This ‘morphinomaniac’ subject was a male nurse pictured shortly before his death.” (Illustration by H H Kane, 1881 - courtesy Wellcome Images)

Yo, Londoners! Get your lazy arses to Euston’s Wellcome Collection to check out their new show High Society. 

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November 2, 2010
thedoppelganger: Glove map of London, George Shove, 1851 (via misanthropyraygun)

thedoppelganger:

Glove map of London, George Shove, 1851

(via misanthropyraygun)

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November 1, 2010
“ The first tattoo read: Khrushchev’s Slave. The second: Slave of the USSR. The third: Slave of the CPSU. ‘Now, after three operations,’ wrote Kuznetsov, ‘the skin is so tightly stretched … he can no longer close his eyes. We call him The Stare.’

- Russian criminal tattoos: breaking the code (The Guardian) 

- Also, Londoners: FUEL’s Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive exhibition currently on show at 4 Wilkes St

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September 25, 2010
From Art Hate on Cork Street 1 which sadly closed earlier today. 

From Art Hate on Cork Street 1 which sadly closed earlier today. 

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September 13, 2010
From Mary Reid Kelley’s You Make Me Iliad, 2010 Currently on show at Pilar Corrias, London, UK.

From Mary Reid Kelley’s You Make Me Iliad, 2010

Currently on show at Pilar Corrias, London, UK.

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August 29, 2010
ALSO on show at Haunch (yes, they’ve got it all. Sex, money, fame, drugs.. and the most beautiful location ever) is possibly the most uninspired and hastily arranged group show this galaxy has ever produced. Curated by James Lavelle. Which is all kinds of weird. Anyways, I’ve ranted, and it’s okay now. Mainly because Jonas Burgert made it all worth it in retrospect. Thanks, Jonas. Above is Ein Versuch und Weg from last year which is actually not on show, but Kaltlauf from 2010 is. 

ALSO on show at Haunch (yes, they’ve got it all. Sex, money, fame, drugs.. and the most beautiful location ever) is possibly the most uninspired and hastily arranged group show this galaxy has ever produced.

Curated by James Lavelle. Which is all kinds of weird. Anyways, I’ve ranted, and it’s okay now. Mainly because Jonas Burgert made it all worth it in retrospect. Thanks, Jonas.

Above is Ein Versuch und Weg from last year which is actually not on show, but Kaltlauf from 2010 is. 

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Also currently on view at Haunch is Polly Morgan’s Psychopomps room installation. Totally worth seeing for olfactory reasons even if you’re already familiar/bored with her oeuvre. 

Also currently on view at Haunch is Polly Morgan’s Psychopomps room installation. Totally worth seeing for olfactory reasons even if you’re already familiar/bored with her oeuvre. 

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August 19, 2010

Today’s Spitalfields was particularly nice because I had the lovely Aiko273 coming along with me. I’m pleased she gave the leg brace I was umming and ahhing about for weeks a nice home.

Some of today’s finds include a book of sweet bedtime stories for the whole family written by everyone’s favourite children’s book author, Hermann Göring. It includes jolly chapters such as “Finis Germaniae?”, “The Tactics of Legality”, “My Task: The Wiping Out of Marxism and Communism” as well as “Aviation”. A fine read. :)

I also got very useful Red Cross bands, a very truthful shop sign and a tiny head for some obscure reason. 

“Anatomy of the Eye and Orbit” will go to our Great Lord Substrom, I imagine. 

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August 16, 2010
membrane: Sally Mann / The Family and The Land / Source : Gosee / Dans la Membrane ♥ If you see one photography exhibition this year, let it be Sally Mann’s solo show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London and if you buy one (albeit bloody expensive!) art book this year, let it be her What Remains published by Bulfinch. I swear you won’t regret it. 

membrane:

Sally Mann / The Family and The Land / Source : Gosee / Dans la Membrane

♥

If you see one photography exhibition this year, let it be Sally Mann’s solo show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London and if you buy one (albeit bloody expensive!) art book this year, let it be her What Remains published by Bulfinch. I swear you won’t regret it. 

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July 1, 2010

A small part of today’s Spitalfields finds. I particularly like my Perspex Jesus®. He’s more 80s and arty than thou cause his crucifix is made of perspex and yours isn’t. Amen. Also, Dave Gahan and I are currently writing him his very own theme tune, yo.

Not pictured is one of the VILEST purchases I’ve ever made: A porcelain figurine of a child mermaid looking dangerously constipated. Its gruesome stare destroyed the camera so you just have to trust me that it’s so horrific you really don’t want to see it. 

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June 17, 2010
Shocking! I completely forgot to bore you all with my Spitalfields update last week. So here’s two weeks worth of exploits (I’m on a strict budget…): - Mechanical monkey of doom - Two very beautiful newbies in the doll family (I lovingly call the head “Pol Pot Jr.”) - An always useful hand clip - A “pot” box to go with my “snuff” box. YAY!

Shocking! I completely forgot to bore you all with my Spitalfields update last week. So here’s two weeks worth of exploits (I’m on a strict budget…):

- Mechanical monkey of doom

- Two very beautiful newbies in the doll family (I lovingly call the head “Pol Pot Jr.”)

- An always useful hand clip

- A “pot” box to go with my “snuff” box.

YAY!

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