Not So Far East Guide

I thought it was about time I updated my guide to London that I give to mates passing through town. Thought it was about time I did a specialised East London update (after all I spend far to much time in).

Galleries
Maureen Paley, Laura Bartlett and Herald St - the trio on Herald St
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, E3
SPACE, 129-131 Mare St, E8
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Rd, E8
Also: Seventeen Gallery, French Riviera, Welcome to Corfu, Kate MacGarry, Eighty1, Almanac

Coffee
Allpress, 58 Redchurch St, E2 - but ask for one shot as this tasty rocket fuel guarantees sleepless nights
Beagle, 397-200 Geffrye St, E8 - under the arch of Hoxton Station
Climpson & Sons, 67 Broadway Market, E8
Wiltons, 63 Wilton Way, E8

Food
Pizza East Shoreditch, 56 Shoreditch High St - esp for the salads and smalls
Voodoo Rays, 95 Kingsland High St, E8 - pizza slice spot in the belly of the Dalston beast
Lardo, 197 Richmond Rd, E8 - great Italian
Viet Grill, 58 Kingsland Rd, E2 - the best of the Vietnamese strip of Kingsland Road
Bistroteque, 23-27 Wadeson St, E2 - sit at the bar (v excited by their new spot coming to the Ace Hotel)

Drink
Spurstowe, 68 Greenwood Rd, E8
Ridley Road Market Bar, 49 Ridley Rd, E8
The Royal Oak, 73 Columbia Road, London E2
Floyds, 89 Shaklewell Lane, E8 - the food up and down, the cocktails always amazing

Shop
Donlon Books, Broadway Market, E8
Artwords, 69 Rivington St, E2 - for magazines
Camden Lock Books - despite name this is a secretly amazing bookshop in Old St station
APC, 15 Redchurch St, E2
Aime, 17 Redchurch St, E2 - French womenswear
Also: Start, Goodhood

Image Tobias Till print 'G - Gherkin' (2012)

Three things I cannot stop clicking on today

Stuart Matthewman's incredible old soul and doo wop radio show Royal Flush on Artonair.org

Today's flyer and programme for the afternoon of 8 changing shows at Welcome to Corfu

Studio Voltaire's editions shop where I am one breath away from buying the Alistair Frost risograph pictured above

Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee

Really enjoyed the Kippenberger show Zehr Gut at the Hamburger Banhopf - much more than I expected. 

My three favourites were: 

- the genius audio piece Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee that had me in giggles from the start

- the group of monochrome paintings' Uno di voi, un tedesco in Firenze' above (that were more squeezed together and tight in their Berlin display) 

- an incredible Slaves to Tourism slide show installation with a punk soundtrack that recreated from an event Kippenberger did at Cafe Einstein, showing an American road trip he and his friend took, with the slide projectors balanced on a ladder.

The exhibition is on until August 18. 

Image credit: Martin Kippenberger: ""Uno di voi, un tedesco in Firenze", 1976-1977, Öl auf Leinwand, 56 Teile, 41 je 60 x 50 cm; 15 je 50 x 60 cm (Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof/© Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne)

Best of the summer group shows

You cant move for group shows this month - I know its traditional summer approach but bloody hell they're everywhere. These are my picks of artists I didn't know much about before from the few I've attended so far:

Koenraad Dedobbeleer in 'Fusiform Gyrus' at Lisson Gallery (a sculptural nut tray a little like image above)

Alex da Corte in Rope Burn: Painting Behind the Velveteen Curtain at Rod Barton

Paul Laffoley in Alternative Guide to the Universe at the Hayward

Frank Ammerlaan at Open Cube curated by Adriano Pedrosa at Whitecube Masons Yard

Instability of the Image

I am writing a series of texts throughout the year for the programme of shows Attilia Fattori Franchini is curating at Paradise Row. They are being printed as a series of leaflets as well as archived online. The first kicked off last night and I'm pasting it here too.

My Top 50 Living Artists

There was no reason to make this list but its so hot I cant focus on work so I did it anyway - my current favourite 50 living artists not necessarily in order...

1 Rashid Johnson
2 Cameron Jamie
3 Josephine Meckseper
4 Kerry James Marshall
5 Wolfgang Tillmans
6 Mark Leckey
7 Janett Cardiff and George Bures Miller
8 Danny McDonald
9 Alex Hubbard
10 Mike Nelson
11 Raphael Hefti
12 Sterling Ruby
13 Steven Shearer
14 Jeremy Shaw
15 Thomas Zipp
16 Haris Epaminonda
17 Andro Wekua
18 Steven G Rhodes
19 Seth Price
20 Pierre Huyghe
21 Thomas Hirschorn
22 Friedrich Kunath
23 Marlene Dumas
24 Cory Arcangel
25 Jim Shaw
26 Jeremy Deller
27 Oliver Laric
28 Leigh Ledare
29 Tauba Auerbach
30 Antoine Catala
31 David Ostrowski
32 Steven Claydon
33 Sylvie Fleury
34 Josh Smith
35 Scott Treleavan
36 David Noonan
37 Paul McCarthy
38 Christopher Wool
39 Haroon Mirza
40 Ed Atkins
41 Eli Cortinas
42 Douglas Gordon
43 Cindy Sherman
44 Sture Johannesson
45 Jonathan Meese
46 William E Jones
47 Cecile B Evans
48 Susan Hiller
49 Paul McDevitt
50 Christoph Buchel

 

Images: Top Left Leigh Ledare, Double Bind, Collage on white, mixed media, silver gelatin prints, assorted print media, Silver gelatin prints, magazine, newspapers and personal and found photographs, Top Right Pierre Huyghe Frieze Projects 2011 commissionBottom Left Rashid Johnson, Our People, Kind Of (2010), Bottom Right Cameron Jamie Infante (2011) Glazed ceramic, steel
44 x 23 x 20 cm,