Arts

Ars longa, Vita brevis

Ars longa, Vita brevis (Life is short, and Art long, opportunity fleeting, experience perilous, and decision difficult.)

— Hippocrates

Art is everything you don’t have to do

Art is everything you don’t have to do (‘an attempt to answer the huge unanswered question, the dirty secret of the art world: what is art actually for?’ – Lecture at The AA School of Architecture, Feb 2012)

Brian Eno

Camden Art Centre exhibition booklets

Camden Art Centre exhibition booklets

Beautiful and useful way of cataloguing Camden Arts Centre exhibitions in a consistent way. I don’t mind paying £1 for each one, and really like the idea that as you add them to the binder, you create a self-curated collection of shows. Something similar appealed to me about the presentation of OMA’s ‘what we are [...]

Laura Buckley’s walk-in kaleidescope

Laura Buckley’s walk-in kaleidescope

I managed to persuade a fellow visitor to pose his silhouette between the projected films and the screen of Laura Buckley‘s ‘Fata Morgana‘. He didn’t believe me that we were allowed to get inside it too, so long as we first removed our shoes. It was amazing; I could have stayed in there for hours [...]