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Category Archives: Galleries

The films of the book

Remember when you were younger and you went into that second-hand bookshop near the university and bought that book by Carlos Castaneda called Journey to Ixtlan? Yeah, the hardback one without a cover. Just gray and really old looking, even then. In it, Castaneda narrates his anthropological studies under a Mexican shaman. The books are [...]

Art eh? bloody brilliant ain’t it?

Well well well, I was hoping never to have to do much more than recycle second-hand stories from the web in an attempt to appear knowledgeable and well-traveled in the art world. And then I accidentally end up in London and go to two galleries! I know, amazing eh? Jerry Saltz had better watch his [...]

Art competition: wow!

Worcester City Art Gallery are co-hosting the latest Worcester Open Exhibition. It has been said in some quarters that any competition that you have to pay for isn’t necessarily one that you should enter. There are, however, many different reasons for organisations charging for entry. If you think it’s not such a bad idea then [...]