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Tooled up
Oh, hello! You’ve just caught Artreview looking through a collection of power tools. A Stromab Blox 4 Way Notching Machine (for the production of log cabinstyle products), a Dewalt DCD150X2 54V XR Flexvolt Diamond Drill (for heavyduty diamond-core...
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Roleplaying
Oh hey! You’ve just caught Artreview enjoying a quick game of Jerry Garcia’s Cosmic Journey – it’s an immersive artwork disguised as an easy-to-learn dice game: ‘roll the dice & leave all your bummers behind’, the slogan on the box promises. For those...
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NATHANIEL MARY QUINN
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A world gone mad
We live in a confused and confusing world. As one part of the Middle East is experiencing a genocide in progress, another part is preparing to welcome the newest edition of the world’s premier art fair. As the real world weeps the artworld rejoices. We...
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Learnings and theories
So Artreview’s uncle has this weird ‘theory’ about portraiture. Basically, his theory is that it is one of two things: either total lies; or some amazing portrait of a hidden inner self that is revealed by the artist who makes it physical. Of course,...
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Special measures
Artreview thinks about James C. Scott a lot, and specifically about how impossible it would have been to prepare a Sunday roast with the late US anthropologist. Artreview imagines it might be sous-cheffing a side dish – a dressed warm salad perhaps –...
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Loafers
Recently, some of Artreview’s more left-leaning (yes! Artreview’s not sure what exactly that means these days either, but whatever – they wear berets as if they were all still living in the nineteenth century) acquaintances (as you know, Artreview is...
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Here endeth the lesson
Recently someone was giving Artreview a lecture about what art is supposed to do. Artreview knows! There’s no need to say it! Artreview is the one who does the lecturing! But that doesn’t stop every Thomasina, Dick and Harry it encounters from trying...
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Simple truths
The children’s entertainer Robbie Williams once told Artreview that he hoped he would be old before he died. That he would live to relive the days gone by. Before going o on one about how he hoped he would live to see the Pope get high and how some...
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Artreview vol 76 no 6 September 2024
Can you do it to yourself? Or does someone other than you need to do it to you? What? No! Artreview’s not talking about an enema! It’s talking about de-colon-isation! And all those museums and other types of institutions who are convinced that they can...
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