Fine Art News
(The following article started out as a coda to the evaluation and ended up as a stand alone piece on my Moogee art criticism blog)
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Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, no no
Yeah feeling good was easy Lord when he sang the blues
You know feeling [...]
First Moogee cartoon 2005…
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no
Yeah feeling good was easy Lord when he sang the blues
You know feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
Kris Kristofferson 'Me and Bobby McGhee' Lyrics
A money culture [...]
‘Conrad Atkinson Remix 1978-2008′ by Moogee the Art Dog
has been selected for ‘Penned’
July 17, 6-8pm, 2008 - Opening Reception
July 18-20, 2008 - ARTSCAPE
at the Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
An exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. The more than 100 drawings in [...]
Writing
Saturday 28 June
1.00pm-1.45pm
Launch of the East Midlands edition of Staple
Roberta Dewa, Derrick Buttress, Antony Cropper, Shaun Belcher, Richard Pilgrim, Clare Brown and Michael Pinchbeck – all Nottinghamshire writers – launch a Staple special edition, with short fiction, poetry and a memoir of living in Wilford!
www.staplemagazine.wordpress.com
Non-fiction Marquee, behind the Village Hall
from Art Newspaper:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7041
Artists are apolitical, leaning to the left but embracing right-wing standards
There’s an entertaining “Alex” [The Telegraph’s hard-nosed City banker] cartoon where the eponymous hero is asking why his bank buys contemporary art. After all, he ponders, it’s impossible to… >> MORE
Ed Vaizey | 20.12.07
Interesting take on artist’s ‘political allegiance’. It true that the [...]
Three poems published in latest Staple Magazine
Rivers I have Visited
The Drifting Village
The Weaver’s Lament
read all three in ‘Odessa’ section HERE
NEW ISSUE OUT SOON! EAST MIDLANDS SPECIAL!
Featuring stories by Clare Brown, Michael Pinchbeck, Roberta Dewa, Marilyn Ricci, Karen Jardine, Peter de Ville, James K Walker, Georgina Lock, Pascale Quiviger, Anthony Cropper, Richard Pilgrim and Jonathan Taylor, [...]
From yesterday’s Guardian
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2240467,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=40
“The final reckoning
It is the biggest cull in the arts council’s history: some 200 organisations have until tomorrow to tell it why they shouldn’t suffer massive funding cuts - and possible extinction. Laura Barnett meets six companies facing a grim future “
Is this some new epidemic, are we talking mass extinction, the end [...]
I came to Nottingham in summer 2002. Even then the cultural map was fairly exact. All ‘creative finances’ trickle down from EMDA / ESF funding through the gatekeepers of Broadway, City Council, University, Regeneration Quangos etc etc. There are cultural geographical reasons for this. Broadway is a child of the original artistic groups in [...]
Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard…
“If, as has been predicted, ACE loses £289m from the Treasury and £113m of Lottery monies from April 2008, many funded arts organisations may close..”
Andy O’Hanlon - South Cambridgshire Arts Development Officer from ‘Arts Professional’ 16 July 2007
Well it new school year so Moogee has no young hoodies to go a chewing [...]
I am contributing a column to Arts Hub Uk website here the latest
July 31, 2007
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Empty Skulls and Pearly Kings
Another week of sun and Moogee may start dog-bathing again. Meanwhile the shower of marvellous art continues to drench us with facts and figures. Mr.Hirst (Moogee’s favourite artist) has seen fit to make some headlines (with a [...]
Struttin with some BBQ
1995
1991 - 95 (NY, Cologne) - Mischtechnik auf Fieberglas
122 x 103 cm
Copyright : Leonard Bullock
Courtesy : Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main
Dear Mr. Belcher,
I was touched by the raw honesty of your letter. It gives such a generous & unguarded picture of your struggle to continue to practice making art. I admire you. [...]
In response to Leonard’s comment on part 1…
Run for the hills….
Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire 1992 Charcoal on paper 24″ x 36″
Dear Mr. Bullock
I probably over-egged the crticism of Goldsmiths per se. ( suits wider arguments) as it coincided with a very difficult time in my personal life. I was living in a legalised squat on North [...]
Following an excellent Clive James article on Hirst’s Skull on BBC website I was moved to post a short reply…I elaborate a little more here..
I wrote then..
Cracking riposte Mr. James. Mr Hirst is the Barnum of our age and whilst not being a bad lad and kind to his mum he does produce some silly [...]