Hot Links

2010-02-23T16:00:00.001+02:00

2010-01-30T15:00:00.001+02:00

"Sloon? Where's Hot Links?"
Sorry, all. Very busy right now, starting a new job and a masters degree. And jeez, is reading aall that crap time consuming. It'll be back soon, though.

2010-01-18T10:23:00.003+02:00

Dinkies Sithole passes away

2010-01-12T13:19:00.000+02:00

Robin Rhode and BMW

2010-01-07T16:55:00.000+02:00

The First of the Best Ofs

RIP Kenneth Noland

2009-12-07T19:24:00.002+02:00

A History of South African SCiFi
Via Lauren Beukes at Twitter

The Real Ron T Beck

Best Artworks of the first decade
And also from Adrian Searle

Michael Landy's Trash
Landy asks people to throw away art. Includes some celebrity artists and art. Didn't Brenden Grey and Co try and do this at last year's Joburg Art Fair to spectacular failure?

Sean O'Toole on Sannell Aggenbach
A rather wandering but funny review

2009-12-03T15:36:00.002+02:00

Been on holiday a bit. So here's a bumper edition:

Portrait of Michael Landy
Michael Landy did that amazing work Break Down, where he destroyed all of his possessions

Eco on Lists

An in-depth look at the Caster Semenya Debacle
Intersex, Gender, Sport, Politics

Why Everyone Hates Conceptual Art

Matthew Collings' List of Beauty

Michael Jackson art
Via Bianca at Twitter

Anarchy at Paris Photo

The Meeting of Cricket at Art

2009-11-23T14:09:00.002+02:00

Jeanne-Claude passes away

An Interview with Gerhard Richter

A Review of Bamako Photo Biennale
Via Artspeakafrica

Anthea Buys has some interesting things to say about Borders and Walls.
In fact, all her writing currently on ArtThrob is excellent.

2009-11-17T13:26:00.002+02:00

New Work by Robin Rhode
Via Bianca

Presence of Mind
A bit on Roland Barthes and China

Creepy Beauty Machine
Via Infocult

Amazing WW1 Photos
Also via Infocult

Another Venn Diagram

2009-11-10T14:55:00.002+02:00

Notes on an Art Crisis
Adrian Searle at his best
(thanks Melvyn for the tip)

An Article about Barend De Wet's Willie
Like the way that writing makes the works important

About Las Meninas
Must be the most written about painting in the world, but still charms

Where are the Bauhaus Women

Portraying the Mafia

Ghostly images in Space

2009-11-02T13:27:00.002+02:00

Damien Hirst's Paintings are considered crap
And a betrayal.
So says ev er yo ne.
Then again, it's Hirst's talent to always prove critics wrong.

Zombie attacks in the Historical Record

A detailed review of Thomas Demand
I <3 Thomas Demand

They Call Him The Spanish Banksy
But he is really far far better

The State of SA Crime Fiction

2009-10-30T13:23:00.001+02:00

Monsters and the Moral Imagination

The Top 20 Most Powerless People in The Art World

Mary Corrigall on Helen Sebidi

Minaar on the Cape Town Biennale

2009-10-26T13:36:00.002+02:00

The White Dahlia
Arthur Maimane was a crime fiction writer for Drum in the fifties. Jeez, I didn't know this stuff existed. Proper SA pulp.

Sue Williamson on activism
A short interview at the Sunday Times

Create your own Apex Art Gallery
Big big opportunity here

2009-10-20T14:32:00.001+02:00

Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art

DIY Galleries

Hyperallergic: Sensitive to art and its discontents
A new blog about NYC art

2009-10-15T13:08:00.002+02:00

Today's Hot Links are dedicated to Pieter Hugo who shouted at me for not writing enough (which is true).

Liza Grobler's One Day Residencies at Irma Stern

Peter Rubens: Secret Agent man

Does who owns art change it?
This reminds me of the debate about the Sindika Dokolo collection.

More Nazi Gnomes

The ArtReview Power 100
Topped by Hans Ulrich Obrist

2009-10-12T12:43:00.002+02:00

Independent Collectors
Really useful looking social networking.

2009-10-12T12:17:00.000+02:00

Get Home or Die Trying
Apparently this link was broken the other day. See what Dan Halter is up to now.

2009-10-12T11:57:00.002+02:00

Internet Archaelogy
An interesting idea: preserving the images from the early days of the Internet. Only problem, most of them seem free of contextual info that one would expect from archaelogy. Still, check out the guest galleries for some gif fun.
via Rhizome

A nice story about Paul Edmunds

Mary Corrigall does a round up of Joburg Spring Art Tour
I don't mind beer and art, I think they are a great combo. But agreed that Grolsch is good only for salad dressing.

Star Wars Uncut
I might have posted this before, but the project is almost finished. Awesomeness.

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

Zombie Survival and Defense Wiki
You know when you are googling for the construction methods of the Graf Zeppelin and you come across a site dedicated entirely to surviving an outbreak of zombies you get a sense of Internet sublime. This was my sublime for the day. Love the earnest passion in the forums.

2009-10-07T16:37:00.002+02:00

Go Home Or Die Here
See what Dan Halter is up to.

2009-10-07T13:56:00.002+02:00

The term "Curate", unpicked:
Part one
Part two

Two reviews of the Turner Prize:
Adrian Searle
Tom Lubbock

Umberto Eco to curate at Louvre

Fuck in the dictionary
Last two via c-monster

4th World Summit of Arts and Culture
Mary Corrigall expounds

...baby carriages, a doll carriage, rusted bicycles, old food, potato peelers, a collection of guns, glass chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment, the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage, 3 dressmaking dummies, painted portraits, pinup girl photos, plaster busts, Mrs. Collyer's hope chests, rusty bed springs, the kerosene stove, a child's chair, more than 25,000 books, human organs pickled in jars, 8 live cats, the chassis of the old Model T...
Amazing story attached to this

2009-09-29T13:35:00.005+02:00

Interview with Ed Young and Matthew Blackman over at ArtThrob

Metaphors and Thought
How our bodies rule our brains

Gustav Metzger
Auto-destructive art

The Four Horsemen send their regrets

2009-09-23T16:49:00.002+02:00

Umberto Eco: The lost art of handwriting

Tomorrow, Now, Forever
Live Webcams always show the sunrise.
Via ArtFagCity

The Digital Curator

2009-09-23T09:28:00.002+02:00

Pan African Space Station Radio

2009-09-23T09:28:00.000+02:00

Pan African Space Station Radio

2009-09-22T20:59:00.002+02:00

More Ghostly Stuff:

Haunted Painting: the fiery curse of Don Bonillo

Ghost Detectors

And:
Grahamstown Art Students Write about Blogs on a Blog