Rough Version Top 10 Art Instagram Feeds

I'm very aware of the rather bland art Instagram lists floating around at the moment. So I wanted to point out there is a world beyond the American cliches..... Mine is obviously @roughversion

1 Ken Kagami @kenkagami
It's the best one out there. It's that simple. Kagami is insanely prolific, funny, uses the forum briliantly and has a really kawaii little girl

2 Jayson Musson @jaysonmusson
I started supporting Jayson way back, putting him in shows and books since 2010. He likes the internet, the internet likes him.

3 Amalia Pica @amaliapica
Smart, international artist. Smart, international imagery.

4 David Noonan @davidnoonan
Everything is black and white in my fave Australian's feed. He also has a very cute black toy poodle...

5 Alistair Frost @ajcfrost
I love Frost's emoji stylisation (if you want more smileys i also recommend @thesmilefacemuseum and @obreuning)

6 Aaron Rose @allegedpress
Every post is Rose telling a joke in front of the Hollywood sign in LA. An artwork in itself.

7 Ed Atkins @warmspringmouths
My love of Mr Atkins' work is well established. I love his heads, hands, noses and general disembodiment. (It might be private too so oops)

8 Luca Lo Pinto @lucalopintoo
Curator and editor of Nero Lo Pinto again shows me good international European stuff that feels fresh to see.

9 Boychild @boychild
I've wrote a little profile on her out in the next issue of Kaleidoscope. Her feed is like an array of little futuristic Cindy Sherman self portraits.

10 I Call Bullshit @icallb
I'm slightly afraid to put this here as I'm sure they'd call me bullshit but this feed is gossipy NY bitchery and fun to read

Also check out: @brionnudarosch @aleksandradomanovic @SD @chris_dorland @jessewine1
@bignickberlin @atfirstiwasafraidiwaspetrified @morelbooks and everyone else I'm following

Smile Smile Smile

On way to Basel tomorrow and am packing (in a suitcase a quarter of the size of the one I brought to Venice - I'm learning). Listening to Jayson Musson's incredible CVS Bangers mix which I recommend immensely. I've know him since his Plastic Little days, put him in my last book and am very very proud in a show at Grimm Museum back in 2010 (the first time his alter ego Hennessey Youngman had a gallery outing I might add). The mix cannot help but make you smile - in a magic FM in a taxi on the way home in 4am kind of way - and inspired this little blog of smiley art.

Artists images from top to bottom - Eddie Peake, Richard Jackson, Shoplifter aka Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, Alisdair Frost

Happy 100

The book launch at b store went brilliantly - and the small show in the window featuring Lilah Fowler and Sam Griffin will be up for a while.

You can read me talking about the book here online here:

Dazed

AnOther

Twin

images: Eli Cortinas above. Below: Andro Wekua, Gott Ist Tit Aber Das Madchen Nicht, 2008; Rashid Johnson, Cosmic Topology, 2009

Relational What?

The video above is the latest from Hennessy Youngman aka Jayson Scott Musson who I showed at Syncopation in Berlin last October and who is one of the artists in my next book out in August. He's so bloody talented and this video is spot on.

Syncopation open Oct 21, Grimmuseum Berlin

My exhibition in Berlin opens on Thursday - I'm doing a singing performance at 9pm. Jeremy Shaw (who's also in the show) is DJing at the after party. Honoured by the artists who agreed to be in the show.

SYNCOPATION
Curated by Francesca Gavin
Group exhibition with Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Oliver Laric, Paolo Chiasera and DJ Shablo, Ajit Chauhan, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Jayson Scott Musson, Jeremy Shaw, Matt Stokes and Mark Titchner

GRIMMUSEUM
Fichte Strasse 2 10967 Berlin
grimmuseum.com
21-31 October 2010
Open daily 14-19h

Private view Thursday 21 October 19h
Performance by Francesca Gavin 21h

+AfterParty
Bierhaus Urban from 23h
Urban Str 126 corner Graefe str
Djs Jeremy Shaw, Francesca Gavin

Hennessy Youngman

A great Philly based artist Jayson Musson (who will be in my next book) has started an internet alter ego telling the art world how it is... Hennessy Youngman. Watch and laugh.