My friend Jennie and I have started up a new blog called the Free Art London List where we will be posting up links and information about free art exhibitions and events in London. Check it out here and add us to your links.
And if you have any suggestions for exhibitions or events that we should add email me with the details here or post a comment below.
I'm liking the simple use of colour and bold graphic shapes as well as the slightly surrealist playfulness of these clothes by Laura Mackness. This is her graduate collection from this years St Martins MA course. Much of the inspiration is clear from the Grace Jones Slave to the Rhythm video (directed by Jean-Paul Goude) below.
Some photos I took at Kew Gardens a little while ago. The cactus house was my favourite... I loved the spiky and stiff sculptural forms and how alien some of them look.
Broken Music (1979) by Milan Knížák, is composed from scratched, damaged and warped records. Knížák, a Czech artist, was a member of the Fluxus movement and was responsible for (and arrested for) some of the first "happenings" in Eastern Europe blending art, sculpture, music, poetry and movement. He is currently the director of the Prague National Gallery.
Audio here.
Some other works from Knížák...
Austrian artist and sculptor Erwin Wurm photographed Claudia Schiffer for the November issue of German Vogue in a series of his famous one minute sculptures where the person temporarily becomes the sculpture - often interposed with everyday objects.
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