(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) http://belcheresque.wordpress.com 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 [...]

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 # 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 [...]