Category Archives: Art

Chooks

Posted on 30 June, 2011 by jb
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>Oi! Be careful….

Posted on 5 July, 2010 by jb

> …that’s my pension! In a previous life, I worked in the UK. Only for 5 years between 1969 and 1974 (Google “Winter of Discontent”, factor in constant power cuts and inflation pushing 25% and you’ll know why I wanted … Continue reading →

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>The amazing Catherine Moullé strikes again

Posted on 11 January, 2010 by jb

> Winter in the Provence. More of her work here

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>If you’re ever in Aix en Provence….

Posted on 9 January, 2010 by jb

> …take a painting lesson from the stunningly talented Catherine Moullé. She’s quite phenomenal. Her New Year card as an example.   First met her in Menerbes in the Provence in 2003 at an open air art fair, was utterly … Continue reading →

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>My friend the artist

Posted on 20 November, 2009 by jb

> I have a friend who’s a seriously famous artist in New Zealand and who is profoundly deaf. “It’s better that it’s me and not my kids” she says. She was reading a wine bottle label the other day without … Continue reading →

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>Calder

Posted on 12 February, 2009 by jb

> A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire, and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand…When everything goes right a mobile is … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me….(about Murakami)

Posted on 29 October, 2008 by jb

>   The Museum for Modern Art (MMK in German) in Frankfurt is always good for a surprise. Letting pensioners in for half price, for one. (Now, THAT doesn’t happen very often either.) Or removing every single permanent exhibit and … Continue reading →

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>Now I know…#1

Posted on 22 October, 2008 by jb

> …why museums in Germany don’t sell t-shirts. Whispers: Because all the visitors are so bloody old Down at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, they’ve showing “Sculpture by painters” – an exhibition of 145 significant works by Georg Baselitz, … Continue reading →

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Don’t ask me….(about Bernard Buffet)

Posted on 8 July, 2008 by jb

When I was in my last year at school (and getting bugger all pocket money, btw), I’d spend most Friday evenings in the Big Smoke. Friday Night Shopping was as good as it got in Auckland in the mid 60’s. … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me…..(about Adolf)

Posted on 7 July, 2008 by jb

> Now, I’m a fairly openminded person, but some of the stuff at Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art) is seriously weird shit. There’s the table, for a start. Half of it’s inside the building. The other … Continue reading →

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