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On Making Art: Paul O'Kane on the act of making
and the making of the act
The notion of creativity has been
subjected to rigorous critique in the postmodern era but the act of
making—the business of negotiating the idiosyncracies of the artist's
chosen medium—still remains central. In the digital age, however, the
media of mundane labour and creative expression are often the same, so is
it time for artists to reconceive the act of making and the making of the
act?
On Functional Art: When is a chair not a chair? asks
Mark Prince
Artists have recently produced a great deal of work
that masquerades as functional objects, such as shelves, lampshades or
chairs. But is this pretence of functionality actually better interpreted
as a means by which the abstract—fine art—values we attach to
art itself can be analysed?
The Artist as Cynic: Sophie J
Williamson writes in praise of shamelessness
The scandalous Cynics
of ancient Greece lived a life free from social restraint, speaking their
minds—and indeed performing their bodily functions—in public
and thereby exposing the hypocrisy and political motivations underlying
most social conventions. Many performance artists, such as Marina
Abramovic; and Cosey Fanni Tutti, have utilised similar techniques, but in
an age of voluntary and involuntary surveillance through social networks,
how have artists such as Christoph Schlingensief and Ai Weiwei tapped into
the spirit of the Cynics for political protest?
EDITORIAL
The Axeman Goeth
After pleasing his
political master by cutting the cultural sector over and above the call of
duty, Jeremy Hunt, as predicted, has now been promoted to do his worst to
the beleaguered NHS. Hunt's final act as culture secretary was to appoint
TV executive Peter Bazalgette—the man who introduced British
audiences to Big Brother—as chair of Arts Council England,
who will report to new culture secretary Maria Miller, herself from an
advertising and PR background. Is it all as bad as it sounds?
ARTNOTES
The Andy Warhol Foundation consigns all of its
remaining 20,000 artworks to Christie's for auction; Arts Council England
announces a 15m GBP apprenticeship and internship scheme; novel
international arts funding schemes launch; a bevy of galleries open in time
for Frieze Art Fair, including major international spaces arriving in
Mayfair just as Cork Street is threatened with redevelopment; all the
latest news on appointments, events, commissions, prizes and more.
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
3rd Paris Triennale: Intense Proximity
various venues – Francis Frascina
Copenhagen Art
Festival various venues – Patricia Bickers
Johanna Billing: I'm
gonna live anyhow until I die MAC, Belfast
– Chris Clarke
Tim Rollins and KOS: The Black Spot
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh – Curt Riegelnegg
Paul Morrison
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield – David Trigg
Lindsay Seers
The Tin Tabernacle, London – Martin Herbert
Robert Wilson
Holkham Estate, Norfolk – Mark Wilsher
Bruce Lacey
Camden Arts Centre, London – David Morris
Seamus Harahan: Cold
Open Gimpel Fils, London – Adam Pugh
Dave Griffiths:
Babel Fiche Castlefield Gallery, Manchester – David
Briers
How
to Eclipse the Light Wilkinson, London – Laura
McLean-Ferris
Sung Hwan Kim Tate Modern, London
– Nicholas Warner
BOOKS
Eddie Chambers: Things Done Change
Richard Hylton
examines shifting cultural politics for black British artists
Rorschach Audio – Art and Illusion for Sound
David Ryan
listens for voices in the static
FILM
Helen
Petts
David Briers views a filmic response to the life of Kurt
Schwitters
LETTER FROM BEIRUT
Artists'
City
Omar Kholeif examines the city's unique cultural position
MONEY
Catch-22 Inheritance Tax
Henry
Lydiate reports on the Kafka-esque nature of the US tax system
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