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, 

Summer Breeze

This is what I have been up to and publishing in the past few weeks:

My Basel Top 10

A big interview and feature on Bruce High Quality Foundation in the latest issue of Sleek (issue 38)

The new bright red issue of Twin (issue 8) containing a ten page interview with Cameron Jamie - a real exclusive - as well as profiles on women behind the scenes in the art world, profiles of artists including Nicholas Deshayes, Raphael Hefti, the writing of Paul Kneale, and artists project from Paul Pieroni, SPACE Studios and Rhys Coren

And I went to Copenhagen for the first time to wander around and conceive an exhibition for September, where I enjoyed Roman Liska at IMO Projects, Tal R at Bo Bjerggaard (pictured above) and Troels Carlsen at V1 gallery.

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

Venice 2013

Before I went to Venice, these were the ten artists I was excited about (and apparently over 10,000 people read this which is mental).

When I came back these are the works that blew my mind: Best of Venice 2013

If you want to hear me blab about it all in person, I'll be joining JJ Charlesworth and Paul Pieroni at the ICA for a lunchtime debrief at 1pm: http://www.ica.org.uk/37950/Talks/Culture-Now-Venice-Debrief.html

These are the things that did not get mentioned in the official story:

Dancing from the minute the music started until 3am on a weird island at Jeremy Deller's incredible party, complete with naked table dancing man (who later put his clothes on, came up to me and knelt in worship at my feet as I danced - as you do); sharing stolen vodka in Le Baron in the Bauer with Anri Sala and Theaster Gates's table; eating asparagus lasagna at Il Paradiso Perduto in Canneregio not once but twice; the amazing Pasticceria Rizzardini beneath our flat for daily macchiati and crostata mele at the bar each morning; hanging out at the Emdash party in a room so rococo it looks like angels vomited and it dried; bumping into half of London at sandwich shops, kebab shops and of course the brilliant Palazzo Peckham; being overwhelmed by beauty at Museo Fortuny

Wild Is The Wind

Venice on Monday for the week - lots of coverage on www.dazeddigital.com throughout the week. 

I'm just a leaf in this wind:

NYC Frieze week rundown

I came back from NYC on Monday night and am only now piecing myself together. The week was made special in particular by the following artists: Michael Genovese / Kadar Brock / Ben Sansbury (photographed with me for Art in America by Paul Laster) / Scott Treleavan / Paul P/ Chris Dorland / Kasper Sonne / David Raymond Conroy / Cecile B Evans / Lewis Teague Wright / Ian Tweedy etc.

These are my highlights:

Frieze

J Parker Valentine @ Frieze Frame section (pictured above)

Borden Capalino @ RamikenCrucible

Andrea Bowers @ Suzanne Vielmetter

NADA

Elena Damiani @ Elaine Levy Project (pictured above)

Leah Glenn @ Night Gallery

Jason Kalogiros @ Queen’s Nails

Exhibitions

Alex Hubbard @ Maccarone (pictured above)

Wolfgang Tilmans @ Andrea Rosen

Travess Smalley @ Higher Pictures

Scott Treleavan @ Invisible Exports

Books 

David Graeber 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology'

Michael Genovese 'Lines and Cracks and Zebras and Horses'