I can’t wait to see documentarist Toby Amies’ envoi to his extraordinary friend Drako Oho Zarhazar.
Over the last year or so when we have bumped into each other socially, Amies has shown me snippets on his phone. Each tasty morsel has increased my hunger for this portrait of the late Brighton dweller Amies describes as “muse for Dali, actor for Jarman, dancer at Les Folies Bergère, outsider interior decorator, hero and legend”.
Last night saw a preview on a giant outdoor screen in Chelsea’s Duke Of York Square of a couple of the new films celebrating the golden age of London boutique culture.
Continue reading Granny’s in Duke of York Square: Preview of the King’s Road Music + Fashion Trail
Here are some images from The Past, The Present & The Possible, the exhibition I have curated with Sophie Demay and Étienne Hervy as part of their group show White Noise at the International Poster + Graphics Festival currently taking place in Chaumont, France.
Installation of the 280 exhibits for The Past, The Present & The Possible – my new Barney Bubbles exhibition – is underway at Les Subsistances gallery in Chaumont, France.
The Past, The Present & The Possible is part of the group show White Noise: Quand graphisme fait du bruit (When graphics make the noise), which opens on Saturday (May 26).
See more images from the install over at the Barney Bubbles Blog.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Yesterday we had fun in Chelsea filming fashion historian/DJ Amber Butchart for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea Council’s InTransit festival in July.
Continue reading Amber Butchart talking Mary Quant + Bazaar at 138a King’s Road
Yesterday filming started for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s InTransit festival in July.
The films of sites which have housed important boutiques in the story of rock & roll fashion will be accessible for pedestrians via QR codes and also appear on the RBKC website and on Youtube.
Continue reading Filming: Lloyd Johnson and Nigel Waymouth for the King’s Road Fashion + Music Trail
These are the trestles stacked up in Les Subsistances gallery in Chaumont, France, awaiting delivery of the exhibits for my show Barney Bubbles: The Past, The Present & The Possible, which is part of the group show White Noise: Quand le graphisme fait du bruit opening on May 26.
The exhibits arrive in France today, so the install is underway.
White Noise, co-curated by Sophie Demay and Etienne Hervy, coincides with Chaumont’s 23rd International Poster & Graphic Design Festival.
Read more about it here.
Artist/curator Sophie Demay and I are continuing to sort through potential materials for this summer’s exhibition White Noise, which Demay is creating with Etienne Hervy as part of this year’s International Poster & Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France.
See more images from the selection process on the Barney Bubbles blog.
Selection has started on the Barney Bubbles presence at this summer’s group exhibition about the visual language of music, White Noise: Quand le graphisme fait du bruit (When graphics make the noise) at the 23rd International Poster & Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France, from May 26 to June 10.
I have supplied the text for the catalogue and last week met co-curator Sophie Demay to start the exhibit selection; Sophie is creating White Noise with Étienne Hervy, the Chaumont festival artistic director and former editor of French graphics magazine Etapes.
Continue reading Next exhibition: White Noise in Chaumont May 26 – June 10
The Life And Death Of Marina Abramović represents a melding of the visions of the subject and Robert Wilson into beyond bravura performance theatre.
Enhanced by Antony Hegarty‘s holy terror and held together by the carny physicality of Willem Dafoe‘s stage presence, the diamond-hard Manchester International Festival production at Salford’s Lowry Theatre offers a series of sublime tableaux, many preoccupied with Abramović’s monstrous mother.