M. Goldstein shines at the fair
Nathaniel Lee Jones and Pippa Brooks have created a world of wonder with their M. Goldstein stand at the Battersea Decorative Fair.
Category: Art
Derek Boshier In The ’70s
Derek Boshier In The ’70s is the self-explanatory title of an exhibition of the great man’s work running from this Saturday (April 9) through to May 7 at San Francisco’s Steven Wolf Fine Art.
Jack Smith: Exotic Theatrical Genius!
Jack Smith’s business card didn’t lie. Smith’s card is for sale, priced £75, in the new catalogue from Maggs.
Acid Aalto at Chelsea Arts Club
My friend Donald Smith’s exhibition Acid Aalto opens at London’s Chelsea Arts Club tonight.
Catalogues: Son Of Vulgar
*** This sleeve for Joseph Beuys’ 1982 single is featured in Son Of Vulgar, the latest “scratch” catalogue from Maggs Bros’ counterculture department. With 24 lots, it’s a typically eclectic affair. Here is a selection, from a Malcolm McLaren promotional brochure for Bow Wow Wow and a Roxy Club membership card through US transgender photography […]
From the vaults: Dalí wrapping paper 1988
Reading Amanda Lear’s engaging out-of-print memoir My Life With Salvador Dalí brings back memories of a visit to the Dalí Theatre-Museum (“the largest surrealistic object in the world”) in Figueres in 1988. In the tower of the museum, the “seedy old conjuror” (per the description by John Richardson in his waspish collection of art world pen […]
Blessed & Blasted: You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You’ve Been Lying On! 10.1974
Sixty years after Blast, the You’re Gonna Wake Up t-shirt adopted the same truculent tone and diffuse dialectic to ring the alarms amid a culture rendered flaccid by the failure of the 60s dream. You’re Gonna Wake Up – which went on sale in SEX in the late autumn of 1974 – was conceived by […]