The Free Art Fair, taking place in two streets near Marble Arch is a fair with a difference. Jasper has arranged it so all the art work gets given away free to visitors, the little people. The people who should be getting the art. Right on Jasper Joffe! And this is no small fry. Saatchi favorites such as Mathew Collins and Stella Vine plus others taken from over 50 emerging international artists exhibiting.
Entries from September 2008
September 22, 2008
The Mona Lisa Curse, Channel 4, 21st Sept.
Art as commerce is taken for granted these days, it is the product of a self-fulfilling prophecy encouraged even by artists, the very people who are meant to uphold its’ integrity. What was great about Robert Hughes perspective on it all was that it took into account the history of over 30 years of the relationship between money and art.
September 18, 2008
Alternative Art Fairs in London Art Week
The big downer with the Frieze Art Fair is the expense; a ticket can cost over twenty squid. Lehman Brothers’ employees might be interested in an alternative this year. So here are some other possibilities….
September 12, 2008
Elinor Evans and Christine Aerfeldt at the Wyer Gallery
Hung side by side in this exhibition is the work of two stylistically diverse female oil painters. One scandalous, one monumental but feminine.
September 3, 2008
‘High’. Tony Oursler at the Lisson Gallery
Tony Oursler portrays a growing 21st century phenomena in a witty and sometimes dark surrealist manner. Delving into the cheap industries built around our modern life, polluting our society and our brains, the ‘quick fix’ highs that are part of everyday existence.
