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

I love hotdogs

I am so so honoured to have been included in one of my favourite blogs - i love hotdogs. The best film blog on the internet. Shannon Maldonado has the best eye for stills I've ever seen. Read my top ten films 'The Perfect Ten' there.

100 New Artists Launching

My new book finally launches next week! Friday Aug 19 at the b store.




(From top Graham Hudson, Lilah Fowler, Sam Griffin)

Eyes in New York

1 The highlight of my two week research trip to NYC is Ostalgia, the Massimiliano Gioni curated show at New Museum about post-Soviet Eastern Europe is sheer genius. Especially look out for the fall of Berlin photos by Michael Schmidt... (Sergey Zarva's painting above)


2 Cory Arcangel Pro Tools at the Whitney (and pick up the beautifully designed free show brochure)

3) Thomas Demand curated show La Carte d'apres Nature at Matthew Marks with some amazing old Sigmar Polke photos, Magritte paintings, and pieces by Luigi Ghirri (as above)

Things I like this week

1) This stupidly good list of artists at Tanya Leighton in Berlin

2) The current issue of Kaleidoscope with 3 pieces and a project by Mark Leckey, an interview with Rashid Johnson, piece on Steven Shearer, and stupidly long list of other interesting pieces

3) Read about Seana Gavin on i-D's revamped website

4) See Alex Hubbard's 'Make Your Movie' (2010) at The Art of Narration Changes Time at Spruth Magers in Berlin

Without Sanctuary

There is a shocking underrated exhibition on in London that charts one hundred years and 5000 (recorded) deaths, with some of the most violent upsetting images you will ever see. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America is an exhibition that turns your stomach. Even blogging it feels strange - how can you make an aesthetic choice about something so sick? The point of the show was how these photographic images taken as souvenirs removed even the sanctuary of death from these murdered individuals. The violence was palpable.