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Thinking whilst making things – a challenge – beyond the crisis in art
I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl’s take on the present state of art criticism. This is by way of a practice run to ’scope’ the afore mentioned ‘art criticism now?’ agenda I love that word ’scope’ you’d think we were shooting bears..maybe we are…certainly foxes… His latest project [...]Academic Artist? Oxymoron?
There was a time when the phrase ‘academic artist’ was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, drawing of a certain standard and a certain ‘resemblance’ to the world of the viewer who would recognise the metaphors and the world that produced [...]Is traditional publishing dead? Next Wave..
This a response to some interesting issues raised by a CNET video on future of the book. Basically the incoming changes are going to revolutionise the whole concept in a way that the music industry still trying to cope with….see Independent article on music downloading which reveals that illegal filesharers spend more on music thus any [...]Nottingham Contemporary the good, the bad and the ugly
I have recently had to pull a discussion post from the Nottingham Contemporary Free discussion group on facebook. Here I explain why and deliver a more considered version of basically the same material which less likely to offend the great and the good of this noble art city. The post was a hasty response to seeing [...]Free as a bird?
Today I finished adding my entire catalogue to this website. Through an industrious mix and mash of elements from wordpress, ning and twitter I have a fully functional always on player driven catalogue that I can never charge for.. so what’s the point? Well I believe and research by others backs it up that the old [...]© 2009 Created by Shaun Belcher on Ning. Create Your Own Social Network
