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Subjective and opinionated reviews on the very best selection of galleries, museums and exhibitions (includng all the ones you haven't heard of yet...)
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CEBK Exhibit of the Month #2*
Wow, a giant! Not quite. Don’t be misled, those are actually very small houses… Like doll’s houses? Exactly like doll’s houses… Collected by the British artist Rachel Whiteread over two decades and kept in her b...
Art Gallery Etiquette 101: smash ‘n’ bump things
This is the second in an occasional series on the right and proper way to behave in an art gallery. But I really made a terrible error before. Because this is Art Gallery Etiquette 101, lesson 1. Really, this is it… Because you can g...
Street & Studio: an abridged history of photographic consent (or the lack of…)
Read the papers: modern life is symbolised by the recalcitrant mosquito swarm of the paparazzi; the beleaguered celebrity constant prey to the hordes of vicious fucks with the telephoto lenses. And well, yeah, they are. But then they also have th...
CEBK Picture of the Week #5
I’m a little embarrassed by the few female artists this blog has featured in recent weeks, so here’s a Picture of the Week by arguably Britain’s greatest living artist. No tokenism here though, this is stunning… ...
Goya in Times of War: the verdict…
To the best of my knowledge, this is only the second English language review of the Prado’s ambitious Goya in Times of War exhibition thus far. As such, I feel the weight of such an important duty rest heavily on my shoulders - I only hope ...
CEBK Picture of the Week #3
Who? Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Eduardo Terrazas, and Lance Wyman What? Mexico 1968 Olympics Poster Where? The V&A Museum of Childhood When? Now now now, and until 7 September 2008, as part of the seriously exciting-looking exhibition A ...
John Currin exhibition: what’s the point?
I ventured out of my artistic comfort zone this week to visit the new exhibition of John Currin paintings at Sadie Coles HQ. Located in the part of London where you get looked down upon if you’re only driving a Rolls Royce, this is the sort o...
Strangeways, here we come, pt.2: dipping a toe into the cultural ocean of Manchester
***You can find part one of this post here.*** Proudly nested just behind the elegant facade of the University of Manchester, just yards from where Ernest Rutherford did some very important stuff with atoms and what-have-you (yes, in Manchester, not ...
Mild art controversy of the week!
It appears that the Chapman brothers have been stirring up a little controversy recently with some work ripping off some dead Austrian artist. It’s really very unlike them. I haven’t been to see the exhibition yet - though I do plan ...
Strangeways, here we come, pt.1: dipping a toe into the cultural ocean of Manchester
As is often the case when I find myself in a relatively unfamiliar place, a recent weekend in Manchester simply seemed too good an opportunity to miss for sampling at least some of the city’s culture (that is, in addition to the city’...
