Fantastic Ordinary

Korean Eye founder David Ciclitira giving his daughter some spotlight at the opening and thanking his curator wife Serenella.

Fantastic Ordinary hosted at the Saatchi Gallery (sponsored by Standard Chartered) presents new contemporary Korean work. Skira has an accompanying book with text by one of the show's curators Serenella Ciclitira.
Photos from the opening (July 5) on THIS SITE.

Systematic is the latest show at the Zabludowicz Collection's great new space (what was once the home of The Drama Centre acting school (Mike Leigh et al)
Photos from the opening (June 30) on THIS SITE

Charles Sandison's The Blind Watchmaker (2005)

Video of Charles Sandison's work
Video of Haroon Mirza's Climate Change

3pm Saturday artist talks beginning with Katie Paterson (July 10)

Bischoff/Weiss have migrated up market from the East End to Mayfair without forsaking their experimental coterie of artists. The last show was Bangladeshi born Rana Begum whose rather intriguing 'light sculptures' can be seen on video HERE.

The latest show is Six Play by Ruairiadh O'Connell who when asked if his work could be considered conceptual wasn't sure. Perhaps not, as his personal connection to the work in re-imagining the images he's taken (screen printed aluminium) is more akin to the tactility of a sculptor. Yet if one isn't made aware of this is the viewer's response to the work equally as strong. Find out for yourself.

Viva immersing in the art - a portrait of artist Ruairiadh O'Connell in front of his Number 3.

Number 5

Modern Art is another East End gallery that upped East End sticks and moved West End- just north of London's Soho. Los Angeles based Dutch artist Lara Schnitger's damned women opened last night (July 9). She has a solo show this September at the Sculpture Center, New York.

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VIVA'S VIAGGIO

It has oft been quoted from Mr. Johnson that "a man who is tired of London is tired of life". Given that gentleman were somewhat on a less egalitarian footing than women at the time: when the offer of a trip to London for little Viva was mooted she could not but all things consider carefully. House sitting in merry old London, forsooth. An internship (that may be revealed in some later post), by Jove. If Viva sublet her NYC abode would she be prone to some crazy person (other than the current occupant and half of 'normal' Manhattan-ites) throwing her library out the window in full mid-summer cocktail flight and possessed by the pages of Baudelaire and Aragon? In spite of the fact that such occurrences on the civil isle are as rare as nesting cranes on a hot tin roof. Could this be Viva's chance at oneupwomanship to the Hampton's' summer brigade? Was this all a ruse by my ex-banker boyfriend to keep an eye on me (surely his drunken pal once met at an Irish midtown pub was/once a spy) and marry me off to a Brit toff? Hiyahowya! Hiyahowya! or whatever the Valkyries cahooted. Viva would brave the waters of the Rhein (figuratively), retain her ring of fire and see for herself if the Thames was festier or filthier than the sludge of the Gowanus.

A friend of my aforementioned ex had recently toured the re-opening of Chiswick House in West London. So curious of Mr. Hogarth and his ways around the corner, and with suspicions of my ex's plot to marry me off to the Duke of Devonshire and make me the Duchess, it seemed a perfect way to initiate my London ramblings.
Photos on this site HERE.

Frederick Law Olmsted (designer of Central Park) traveled to England in 1850 to visit public gardens including English architect and landscape gardener Joseph Paxton's Birkenhead Park (join the dots...he was a gardener at Chiswick House from 1823 to 1826). Chiswick House is the first and one of the finest examples of neo-Palladian design in England.
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Aicon Gallery's A Missing History

Aicon Gallery's
A Missing History:
"The Other Story" re-visited' re-visits the seminal exhibition 'The Other Story' that closed twenty years ago in June 1990 (11 of whom
featured in the original show). It showcased African-Caribbean, African or Asian cultural background artists working in Britain who were ignored by the dominant accounts of Modernism.


David Medalla (L) with the 1989 curator Rasheed Araeen at the June 29 opening.



David Medalla whose photos Down with the Slave Trade (1972) and the 1965 manifesto MMMMMMM.....are in the show.

Rasheed Araeen

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