"Because we're crazy."
The art pendulum is biased towards dissatisfaction, but it is surely this constant swinging between approval and disapproval that drives us to progress. It has become apparent to me that artists and artheads are generally dissatisfied with their respective “art scenes” all over the world. People in one scene feel like others have it right and their scene is shite. WELL, I’m not sure that this is indicative of the quality of work being produced, but rather of a healthy, progressive collective. I’m personally glad for the disgruntled artists that get fed up with the inevitable cookie-cutter turn that popular trends take. Art should never be made specifically to fi...Read more
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tags: Chapter One Gallery London Mudwig Dans Merijn Hos Erosie Stefan Marx Michael Swaney
Mind the Bullocks: Bad British Humor on Bad British Art
Since Illiterate now has a foreign correspondent gushing over London's highly developed culture of art appreciation, I find myself immediately up in arms ready defend America's artistic honor against the tyranous crown with some good ol' fashioned mud slinging, rabble roussing and an all around xenophobic tirad wrapped in patriotic propaganda. But why point my lazy Yankee finger all the way across the Pacific when the Brits are perfectly capable of flipping themselves off all on their own. Thank the YBA alumnus Richard Patterson for bringing this bit of perfectly foppish toss to the mainland two weeks ago during his wryly comical Logan Lecture at the Denver Art ...Read more
The Ill Art of Raymond Salvatore Harmon
Experimental filmmaker-- check. Record producer--check. Painter--check it out!. With influences ranging from the spiritual to the occult. Raymond Salvatore Harmon's primary paintings fit somewhere between tapestry patterns and those that appear about an hour and a half into a chemically induced mindwarp. Scale and surface are the key elements with this work of wonderment. As a street artist Harmon works undefoot laying out largescale pieces (in one instance an entire intersection in London) on the ground, where whetehr recognized, appreciated or detested they cannot be avoided. ...Read more
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tags: Raymond Salvatore Harmon Street Art London Brooklyn New York Secret Project Robot