Art Screens

WOT U : -) ABOUT? – Rachel Maclean’s multimedia installation at Tate Britain – plays brilliantly with the dayglo propaganda of the emoji age. First thing you’ll notice is that Tate’s familiar classicism has had a makeover, transforming one large room into a seductive reception hall for our digital indoctrination. Joining Maclean’s molten proletariat, we demand […]

Last night, BFI unleashed a stream of otherworldly celluloid rarely encountered beyond chance screenings and dark corners of the internet. FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE (28.02.17) was a mind-bending new retrospective of works by experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. The 11 short films – some screened in full, some fragments of larger projects – varied in length from 3 to 11 minutes. All […]

A tale of two screenings. You wait ages for an evening of hand-scratched celluloid and then two come along at once. They couldn’t have been more different. One bracketed to the hilt, full of explanation and exposition. One left unattended, like a secret garden gone wild. Both coincidentally anchored by  Bruce Conner’s 1961 animation COSMIC […]

SERPENTINE GALLERIES, LONDON 08.12.16 to 12.02.17 If life can be expressed in a series of Venn diagrams, we’re particularly fond of the space where art house and art gallery overlap. It’s a space occupied by Serpentine Gallery’s first ever UK solo show by New York artist Lucy Raven. They’ve even gone to great pains to transform the […]

20.01.17 to 22.01.17, STARR CINEMA, TATE MODERN, LONDON REVIEW: A weekend of films by the Japanese-American Yonemoto brothers, including a lecture and assorted Q&As with Bruce Yonemoto. Bedding down for a weekend in the luxury of the STARR CINEMA is a joy, even though TATE has a way with such affairs that can make them both erratic (will […]