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Amigazos, esta semana traduje la crítica para practicar, para aprender más vocabulario, y para liberarme de la vergüenza jajaja. Este año, voy a pasar un mes en chile y ya estoy haciendo tareas español pero hasta ahora nunca he escrito critica en español. Si hay errores……no tengas miedo. Solo paciencia por favor 😂 pero si sigues teniendo tanto miedo, la versión inglesa está acá — El Museo de la Casa Hace unas semanas, leí un blog trata de la psicóloga suiza Marie-Louise von Franz quien había…

Yesterday, I was on the phone for an hour with an artist in Santiago. She told me she didn’t think it would be a good idea for me to visit the Atacama desert when I come to Chile because the altitude could cause problems for my health. I thought deserts could only be low, like hot, dry basins. Frying pans over hell. But I was reading about it afterwards and the Atacama’s sloping down the left-hand side of the Andes. It’s so high, tour guides bring oxygen tanks. And I’m closing the tabs on the…

The gallery at MEZZANINE is slap bang in the middle of an industrial estate. I am on the edge looking in, past the rolling metal shutter, at the scene spread out before me. The glossy pink dust cover of a book called La Vie Parisienne is stapled to the wall. The title is in dainty curly cursive and there’s an illustration of a girl caught in a gust of wind — the wind whirls around her blowing blossom petals and leaves, tousling her hair, she holds down her skirt but, oh! The wind has sexily u...

I am sitting in a café in the oldest art space in the UK feeling spent. The Bluecoat’s current exhibition ‘Just Browsing’ has been on for five months and I’ve caught it in its final week, though I don’t think I should have bothered. I am not sure the gallery was that bothered when they put it together; I don’t know if half the artists were arsed either — and now two teenagers have sat down behind me on their Easter holidays and I hear one of them say to the other, ‘I’m sure there is a point ...

we’ve been invited by the Museum of Croydon and Croydon Libraries to talk about our book Poor Artists on April 23rd for World Book Night free tickets here < ‘At a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, Poor Artists investigates why so many artists try anyway. Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar as she embarks on a surreal journey into the creative industry, where she must decide whether she cares more about success or staying...

Qing Fibre sent me some yarn from their new Lucid Dreams collection so i could once again play my game of matching yarn to art. you can get a discount using code TWP5 ! let’s all buy string ! Sue Arrowsmith’s painting Forge / Qing Fibre NOCTILUCENT CLOUD Djamel Tatah’s Untitled / Qing Fibre ECHO Jadé Fadojutimi’s The Luna(tic) Effect / Qing Fibre REM Kaye Donachie’s Clouds are pushing in grey reluctance / Q...

THE MOMENT is Charli xcx’s brat summer mockumentary, directed by Aidan Zamiri. I was sat in the denim reupholstered seats at Rich Mix with a large glass of red wine in my hand. I watched girls with city bags and slickback buns traipse in around me. I thought about how this was all very meme account starter pack. Then the film started and I was blasted with acid green, cyan blue titles. Charli xcx in black and white, sliding round on a transparent floor. ‘It feels like my eyes are getting jet...

feeling incredibly frustrated today. tried to edit audio and it sounded great in Audition, but when I exported the files, TERRIBLE. like two planes taking off inside your ears. and then I learn audio sounds different inside the programme than it does outside of it, because it can’t process the effects live?? it only applies them in the export?? WHAT AM I PAYING YOU FOR. really, i think the background stress of waiting for the result of an arts council grant is making me crazy. the back-backgr...

i am very aware this is in 2 days, i am also well aware this is a sold out event, but i am contributing to the new news section !!!!! on Thursday (26th March, which is also Bangaldesh’s idependence day!) i’ll be in convo with Laisul Hoque about his show The Ground Beneath Me at Nunnery Gallery/Bow Arts. a link to the event here i am v much looking forward to it bc it is a artist in convo with a generous twist: it is also a sit down dinner supper club, thank u to When They Meet, and catered fo...

2 news items in 1 day, lucky uuuu i am also chatting to Rene Matic on Thurs 9th April about their work for the Deutsche Borse Prize link here link here link here i think the tickets are £10? sorry – i wish they were £0 but i am not in charge (if i was…!) if u love photography i hope 2 see u there, or stay tuned and i will take notes n tell u my highlights hehe

I just got home from the counter-protest against UKIP who thought they could march through Liverpool today in the name of Jesus and Lent or whatever. They call themselves the party of mass deportations, not seeming to reckon with the fact that if a man from Palestine rocked up today talking about loving your neighbour, and loving strangers too, UKIP would make for shit disciples because they wouldn’t even let him in the country. Nah, they didn’t get to march today. We surrounded them. They d...