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No photos please, we're British

As the ability to be able to share, visually, any particular moment of my life becomes more important to how I define myself (it's sad, but it's true), it seems extremely archaic that you can't take photos in art galleries. How will my crappy phone picture ever recreate the experience of standing infront (or amongst) an art work and drinking it in?

I understand that flash photography ruins oil paintings, but I don't think that applies to modern art. And in my experience, the American modern art galleries have a much more relaxed attitude to photography, which leads me to guess that the no-photo rule is rooted in tradition (and fear of piracy?).

Here is my protest photo from Yayoi Kasuma exhibition:

 As you can see it is no substitute for the real thing (btw, highly recommended exhibtion).

As if in a dream

Love rainbows. Love washed out rainbows. Beautiful photos by Andrey Bogush from Hyeres.


via CR Blog

Chic stitch

Cross stitch and fashion magazine covers. Two of my great loves bought together by Inge Jacobsen. Love catching up on my RSS.

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da

Wow, a bit late to the party but came across these pics by Lissy Laricchia recently. It made me smile.


From the set "Get Back in Your Book"

Rainbow pretty things

Amazing installations by Gabriel Dawe.



Reminds me of Tomas Klassnik's A-level art piece. Retro.

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Pick me up

Finally got round to going to Pick Me Up (1 day left, you should try and make it if you can). Two interesting things about the show. Firstly, the fact that there were so many artists-in-residence. Rob Ryan's studio had pretty much decamped to Somerset House and it was kind of odd to see an 'office' set up (no matter how creative) in a gallery space. Secondly, that pretty much everything was for sale. And while I couldn't be bothered to queue, I'm lucky that the lovely Amanda Gore could because she bought me this:

 

Rob Ryan's studio:
 

Some random stuff:


 

Banana fun

Nice label refresh from Chiquita. 
   
 via The Dieline

The element of surprise

Slowly catching up with my Google Reader, funny how it gets totally overlooked when you have real work to do. Loved this jewellery box by Gerlinde Gruber. I think more packaging should build suspense and surprise in more invesntive ways, especially in the luxury sector where it's STILL about boxes and tissue paper.

Holiday dreaming

While punishing myself by looking at hotels that I can't afford I came across this:
Pretty mental huh?
The rest of it is pretty lush too:

At the Purificadora Puebla in Puebla, Mexico.  

Wood, but not as we know it

Amazing 'wooden textiles' by Elisa Strozyk. 


   
The first one of the year via today and tomorrow, there will be more.