CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Cedar Lewisohn's art world blog takes in the latest shows in London, plus trips to Berlin, Madrid and Paris
for a Channel 4 programmer about street art.
April 26, 2008
November 27, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S 'FRIEZE WEEK' DIARY
Cedar Lewisohn's 'Frieze' week began with a whirlwind visit to Rodney Graham at Lisson (below), Zhang Huan at Haunch of Venison, Michael Raedecker at Hauser and Wirth, and Dave Hickey's talk at the frieze art fair - 'he was saying things like if the art market bubble pops it won't matter because the only people that get hurt when art market bubbles pop are greedy gallerists and greedy artists and anyone else greedily involved... he also said that now is the best time to play fair and do the right thing in the art world because if you do that you're going to stand out a mile because you'll be the only person doing it'. 
October 09, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
good morning and greetings from hotel orient express, istanbul.. the first piece i saw at the biennale was a video by allora & calzadilla which involved someone riding around istanbul on a bike which had a bit of a flat tyre. the only odd thing was that every time the rider stopped to pump up the tyre, he used a bagpipe made out of dead lamb. he'd blow into the bagpipe and play a little tune,, and the air would go through and fill the tyre up for a bit. a singing kebab, kind of... there was also an installation by David Dorrel, Melissa Frost and Mihda Koray called 'The Slayer Pavilion', which i liked,,, it was the set of a teenager's bedroom with loads of Slayer posters and stuff and in the middle of the room there was a kid who'd hung himself... 
July 11, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY: VENICE, KASSEL AND MUNSTER
As you walked around documenta there where all these old chairs scattered around the place. It wasn't always clear if they were part of the show, then sometimes they were right in the middle of it. It eventually transpired that these chairs where part of a work by Ai Weiwei (below), who has invited and will fly to Kassel 1001 Chinese people. Some of them were already at the opening, so every time I saw someone who looked Chinese I kind of thought, are you an Ai Weiwei piece? 
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June 20, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
'I went to a Nan Goldin talk this evening. I got there late coz i was in a meeting in the pub - a very important meeting. She's funny, kind of totally self-obsessed, as you'd expect. She got really upset when someone mentioned reality TV not even in relation to her work, but her work is total reality TV - my life and my friends' lives on a plate. Someone asked her a question about why she hates the internet and she said, "because I'm a fucking old lady", took her mic off and walked off stage.' 
June 13, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Cedar Lewisohn does the round of London shows - Eberhard Havekost at White Cube ('like a whole plate of riveta biscuits... kind of dry'), John Russell (image below) at Matt's Gallery ('the thing about John is he wants to put forward the most debased anti-aesthetic image possible, so it's hard to judge his images in normal terms - you have to judge them in terms of how awful they are), Cary Kwok's 'super kitsch gay porn images where all the men constantly have gallons of sperm flowing out of them' at Herald Street, before settlign down to watch Gilbert & George on the Jonathan Ross show - "there was one classic line where 'wossy' asked them what they think about David Cameron's urge for everyone to 'hug a hoodie' and George said, 'oh, we've been doing that for years'". 
April 28, 2007
JANE NEAL'S LATEST DIARY
Critic and curator Jane Neal reports on her recent trip to LA and Austin, Texas where she went to install an exhibition by East European artists, Adrian Ghenie, Serban Savu, Slawomir Elsner and Wojciech Zasadni. 
March 31, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Catch up with Cedar Lewisohn who drops in on a horticultural ballet called 'Asparagus' by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, the ICA's current show 'Secret Public' ('Leigh Bowery - below - managed to save the day'), Martin Westwood's glass 'tables' at The Approach, David Lynch's new film, Clare Rojas' 'folk baroque' paintings at Modern Art - and some excellent tips on how to makethe perfect sandwich from 'the punk'. 
March 24, 2007
NOSADELLA DUE ARTISTS' RESIDENCY
You read about the powers of immersion in language learning - a magical technique that works for all kinds of languages. In early January Lupe Nunez-Fernandez received an enticing invitation to take part in the first edition of Nosadella Due, a newly set up independent artists' residency foundation in Bologna as one of two non-Italian art writers, and here is her report.
February 15, 2007
APRIL ELIZABETH LAMM'S BERLIN DIARY
The week began with a surprise party for the Austrian art magazine Spike, followed by the opening and starry dinner for RothStauffenberg's new show at Esther Schipper, 'MONSTER' (installation shot below), a birthday party for Sofia Hulten, Peter Pillar's photographs at Barbara Wein and Dennis Loesch's dirty white carpets at Jan Winkelmann. 
February 13, 2007
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Catch up with Cedar Lewisohn who recounts a thanksgiving meal ('it was all artists and everyone made a dish, so it was a bit like a group exhibition on a plate'), trying to get a drink at the opening of Damien Hirst's collection at the Serpentine ('can you believe it? the cheeky fuckers were charging for them! fxxking liberty! fxxk that, i'm not paying for a drink at an art opening hosted by a millionaire'), voodoo in Benin, and Selfish Cunt at a party hosted by Modern Art. 
December 14, 2006
TALLINN ROUND UP
A brief afternoon walking around town, catching up with current shows in the Estonian capital.
December 06, 2006
ART DIARY: WHEN MAT COLLISHAW MET THE BAILIFFS
Last week Mat Collishaw and his brothers, who run a record store in London's East End frequented by the likes of Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, received a visit from the bailiffs on a mission to settle some debts. On one of the walls hangs a work by Sarah Lucas, a doctored photograph of her left breast in a lilac bra. 'They were grubbing around in our pitiful little tin tray of pound coins that serves as our till and completely overlooked the picture,' said Collishaw. 'I don't think they're into art.' Laura K Jones reports. 
November 29, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
'good evening. I'm in a hotel in sao paulo,, i'm here for research and to check out the biennale. yes, i know i'm a jammy dodger, but you know, someone has to be... actually i arrived very early this morning and i'm feeling the strain.... been bopping round some of the sights,, checked a bit of the biennale,,, but you know,, it's sunday so i can afford to take it easy...' Cedar Lewisohn on the Sao Paulo biennale, this year's Turner Prize, David Hockney at the NPG and a night out in Deptford with artist Caron Geary and Spanish curator Xabier Arakistain. 
November 18, 2006
JAVIER PERES ON MATT GREENE'S OPENING AT DEITCH PROJECTS, NEW YORK
'For his NYC solo debut, Los Angeles-based Matt Greene packed a big punch at Deitch Projects presenting a suite of 5 large scale new paintings, the largest being a 20-foot monolith of sexual transgression and liberation, the sort I like...' 
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October 21, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
"greetings from NY,,, I'm in the guggenheim basement using their pc and there is a fucking massive cockroach running around so i'm typing fucking fast so i can get the hell out of here,,, the goog is pretty shit,, they've got a crap show by zahad hadid which blows, and a pretty lame pollock thing,,, they do have some very hot impressionist stuff up there,, Picassos and Manets... before that we were at some dodgy public art project by sarah sze [below],,, i thought it was really boring until the curator started talking about it,, after which i thought it was the worst bit of public art i'd ever seen... he was that bad an orator..." 
September 27, 2006
September 05, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
An exhibition in a London tattoo shop - all the work in it is available as a tattoo -, a night on the town with German artist Thomas Zipp, and irritating wall texts at Tate Britain ('you might as well paint a big black cross over the painting') - a week in the life of London-based artist and curator Cedar Lewisohn. 
August 14, 2006
RCA PRINT AUCTION, A PHOTO JOURNAL
A glimpse at PLUG, a group exhibition organised by and largely featuring Royal College of Art Photography Alumni in London.
August 12, 2006
JEPPE HEIN FOUNTAIN IN ACTION
Watch out, water coming your way..
July 18, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Lobster bisque at Rules, Howard Hodgkin ('I'd rather eat plastic'), drawings by Tilo Baumgartel, Jean-Luc Moulene's shaven ravens, and fresh pea and mint soup - a week in the life of the artist, writer and curator. 
July 05, 2006
SHANE WALTENER AT SOUTH HILL PARK, BRACKNELL
On Saturday 1 July London-based artist Shane Waltener and a handful of cohorts ventured out to South Hill Park, in Bracknell (Berkshire) to bring some of his crafty know-how to the park's annual Summer day.
July 01, 2006
RUSSELL HERRON'S LATEST DIARY
..On Alastair Mackie and Oliver Clegg at Tara Bryan Gallery and Tim Knowles and Catherine Morland at Rokeby.
June 29, 2006
STUDIO VISITS: ADAM CVIJANOVIC AND BENJAMIN COTTAM
Doing the rounds of studio visits in New York, C E Foster discovered a revival of celing murals and silverpoint drawings. 
June 24, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
"popped into this show 'The Tales of Hoffmann' curated by artist Tamsin Morse.. There were couple of nice drawings in there,, but the main thing was the location,, basically, the show is staged in 3 or 4 floors of the old clock tower at the end of Mare Street in Hackney.. the venue is totally mind-blowing, topographically speaking... a Gaston Bachelard wet dream if you know what i mean..." Plus Dr Lakra's tattooed beauties and being Barry McGee at ArtBasel.
June 02, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
Hanging out with DJ Spooky and Stella Vine, traipsing across London in the rain in search of Jules Verne, and feeling the 'glow' of Matthew Collings, 'our generation's David Sylvester'...
May 25, 2006
PATTI ELLIS'S LATEST DIARY
'Did a great studio visit with Sarah Pickstone on Monday, was really fab seeing her new work - really massive sized canvases in progress'
May 23, 2006
CEDAR LEWISOHN'S LATEST DIARY
'So I ended going to Laura Bartlett Gallery last night.. the show was of artists from Norway...'
May 20, 2006
LOOP '06, part 2
Some images from the first day of this year's video art fair in Barcelona.
May 19, 2006
LOOP '06
Tonight, you could spot the usual art crowd suspects sitting either at the tribute to Nam June Paik at the Casa Asia, at the inaugural El Bulli-sponsored dinner or the perhaps sweating through the sold-out Barcelona debut of Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9.
May 15, 2006
Cedar Lewisohn's Diary
had a great day today,,, suns out, life is good,,, I'm getting ready for this talks program i'm organising here at TM,,, its pretty cool,, check the line up below,,, so anyway,, i had to show Nihal Arthanayake from Radio 1 the new re-hang on level 5.
Patti Ellis's Diary
Believe it or not I'm the person who writes most of the picture credits on the Saatchi Gallery website. It's about the coolest job in the world, unbelievable perks - seeing new art all the time, meeting a lot of the artists and sometimes famous people, and getting invited to a lot of fancy dos with bizarre shaped canapes and champaign fountains.
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