Thu 12 – Sat 14 July 2004 Opera House, Manchester, England Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-A, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal…
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…….is a question oft asked by dull-witted tourists in Scotland’s capital. Sadly, Sergeant ‘Tam the Gun’ McKay hasn’t let one off for a bit, (the shops on Princess Street complained of shoogling…
Comments closedCornerhouse, Manchester 6 March to 17 April 2004 Cornerhouse’s visual arts director Kathy Rae Hauffman has come in for much criticism from local artists in the past year. The cry of ‘New Media New Danger’ has echoed around town as…
Comments closedIt’s been a while since the domestic Bert & Ganddie gallery drew its net curtains to the public. Gallant Ganddie diligently poked around for a vacant space for a new project, all the while encountering the usual problems with finding…
Comments closedSome small hope, far away when national imaginaries were composed of garden centres, golf-courses, sewage works, car parks, underpasses and airports, an epic struggle took place between The Garden, and the bare-breeched brethren of the Rossie-Crosse, those reptilian supporters of…
Comments closedLucy McKenzie Motivated by the shelter of like-minded people ruled by friendship, Lucy McKenzie’s philosophy is clearly signalled by the conviviality of her work and by the ways in which she has clearly remained determined to tackle success and failure…
Comments closedIt’s ten years since opera critic Jeremy J Beadle penned Will Pop Eat Itself?, detailing the plagiarist tactics of the Kopyright Liberation Front, M/A/R/R/S, Technotronic and Jive Bunny. Believing they had overcome the hip-hop copyright crisis, record corporation lawyers suddenly…
Comments closedSorcha Dallas and Marianne Greated opened the countless doors of Glasgow’s nomadic gallery Switchspace in February 1999. Dallas’ West End tenement became host to the first of over 15 shows. Tiring of appeasing stairhead neighbours and of watching telly in…
Comments closedMartin Boyce, Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tramway, Glasgow, Until 19th January 2003. Adrian Wiszniewski, Dream On, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Until 24th December 2002. Boyce’s brooding installation of chain-link fencing, modern…
Comments closedRichard Wilson: Irons in the Fire Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Until 14th December 2002 “Personally, I have always considered Richard Wilson to be the finest British landscape painter of the late eighteenth century”, quipped art historian David Hopkins. Judging by…
Comments closedJordan Baseman, EF103 603, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Until 23rd May 2o02 Salla Tykka, Cave, Tramway 2, Glasgow. Until 8th June 2002 Helsinki based Salla Tykka is one of a number of young Scando artists…
Comments closedWin Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together 28 Leven Street, Tollcross, Edinburgh. Edinburgh’s abysmal lack of independent artist initiatives has been confronted lately with discreet domestic organisations such as Magnifitat, Tag Team Experiment and a spattering of large group…
Comments closedContemporary French art appears to be on the threshold of crisis, rudely awakened from bureaucratic slumber by the Right who, encouraging debate on museum privatisation, seek to revoke massive increases in state funding introduced in 1982. These attacks on cultural…
Comments closedJoan Eardley: Paintings and Drawings – Until 22nd February Toil: Rural and Urban Working Life – Until 22nd February Recent Acquisitions – Until February David Musgrave – Until January The City Arts Centre’s current selection box of exhibitions covers everything…
Comments closedNasal and Facial Hair Reactions to Various Heritage Disasters Bureaucracy is specifically rational in the sense of being bound to intellectually analysable rules; while charisma is specifically irrational in the sense of being foreign to all rules. Within the…
Comments closedCLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT APRIL 1998 “Glasgow: Onwards and Upwards”, Art Monthly, No.216, May 1998, p26-27. This extended version of this report on the Glasgow appeared in basetext, @ www.succession.uk.com/basetext/ Glasgow’s cultural commissars were smarting this March at the…
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