Luke Rudolf

I really like these paintings by Luke Rudolf (above: Portait number fourteen). If I was buying, I'd snap one of these up. His work is on show at Kate McGarry until January 10.

Looking for comfort in an uncomfortable chair

I went to the ICA last night to pop by and see "For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there". I ended up having a lovely evening with what appears to be every Dutch member of the art world in London. At the show itself however i fell in love with this small black and white slide show piece by Bruno Munari. "Looking for comfort in an uncomfortable chair" is pure genius. I think this is something I experience almost daily.

Another Reader

I am one of the featured blogs on Anothermag.com's exceptionally well chosen online Reader, which brings together posts from a number of great blogs.
(I also contribute to the Loves section, a very addictive list of fantasy products)

It seemed a ripe opportunity to list my own favourite visual blogs:

I Love Hotdogs

VVORK

Temple of Light

ANP

But Does It Float

We Can't Paint

Anita Z's Art Diary

Everything is Terrible

Death of the Future

I found a few of my favourite features online - kindly made into downloadable pdfs by architects Sybarite. Both were cover features at the time and though my style has probably changed, they are some of the pieces I'm most proud of.

The Death of the Future published in Blueprint

The Future is Another Country published in Dazed.

I'm writing a piece for the next Sang Bleu out in February now that touches on similar all encompassing themes...

(illustration above by my sister artist Seana Gavin)

Patane and Paper

I had the pleasure of going to Seb Patane's opening at Maureen Paley last night. He did a abstract occult music performance upstairs for half and hour, where everyone sat on the floor to watch men wearing weird masks stand against the back drop of Patane and friend in bee keepers hats playing experimental electronic music. Really enjoyed it. But especially loved the work downstairs. Appropriated images of Crimean war drawn on with pen, pressed flowers and abstract shapes, sculptural odes to modernism, an odd atmosphere. Stupidly forgot to take pics. But I did an 8 page interview with him in Twin.

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Two great independent art publications arrived this week - ANP's latest issue in the post with Jonas Mekas on the cover and a very good piece on photographer Bill Owens by Ed Templeton; and issue 4 of Kaleidoscope picked up at the Klaus Weber show. Both are bloody great. I love paper.