[Please excuse the very long blog absence - I am without a stable internet connection and now terribly behind schedule with posting but Im planning to brief you about 25 important shows that are curr...
Self Portrait as Post Script by Julie Heffernan, 2007, oil on canvas, 67 x 56 inches – click to enlarge Announcements of new Heffernan shows (thank you, Phantasmaphile!) are always a good excus...
Still from Mound video by Allison Schulnik, 2011 – click to enlarge I don’t think I ever had a) an exhibition announcement for Overland Park, Kansas and b) so little information on a show...
Fake Death Picture (The Death of Chatterton – Henry Wallis) by Yinka Shonibare, MBE, 2011, digital chromogenic print, framed: 58 5/8 x 71 1/4 in. (148.91 x 180.98 cm) – click to enlarge T...
Like Thieves at Midnight by Nazif Topçuoğlu, c-print, 121 x 210 cm, 2011 – click to enlarge Ah, I missed the glorious opportunity to tie this post in with my recent article on Hisaji Hara ̵...
© Gisèle Vienne, via Dennis Cooper’s blog – click to enlarge Director/writer team Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper have been working as a pair on theatre projects since 2004 and are now pr...
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you this important intergalactic message from the data highway/PoE: Related articles:July 13, 2011 -- 6 Things To Keep You Company In Desperate TimesAs Im trying ...
© and courtesy the Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger, Zurich – click to enlarge In my early childhood, when we visited the fairgrounds in late autumn with a bag of Marroni (roasted chestnuts) warm...
A Study of “Because Cathy taught him what she learnt” by Hisaji Hara, 2010 – click to enlarge I think it must have been the lovely Nana Rapeblossom who first introduced me to Hisaji...
Very urgent life matters to deal with – no time for this. I’ll be back. I always am. Take care. x - Suzanne WurzelRandomizer®December 25, 2005 -- And fuck Easter too Just like every year,...
Dicky by Stuart Pearson Wright, oil on oval canvas, hand-carved frame, 40 x 50cm, 2011 – click to enlarge I remember being two days early to the opening reception of Stuart‘s previous I R...
To wrap up 2k11 on the Wurzelblog, I decided to post the 20 articles you guys liked best – according to likes, shares and reactions – and I must say, you’ve got a rather amazing and...
Please excuse the lack of updates in the recent past, gentle reader. It’s due to very bad internet access that pretty much only allows me to update my Facebook with the usual award-winning and ...
Keeping Up the Pureness by Matsui Fuyuko, 2005 (original) and 2010 (reproduction) – click to enlarge Matsui Fuyuko. Insanely talented, bright, stunningly beautiful. And modest. There’s mo...
© Mirka Lugosi, 2008 I posted an introduction to Mirka Lugosi‘s work only back in October when she was showing her work in Montpellier and well, she’s already having another exhibition en...
A Teardrop and a Flame by Christopher Conn Askew, watercolour, ink, graphite, nail polish & gouache on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2011 – click to enlarge 96 Tears is one of the very few exhibi...
Just a quick heads up for Londoners that great things will be taking place at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury these coming weeks: From December 1 – 4, the London Underground Film Festival take...
The Cure by Cris Brodahl, oil on glued canvas, 2009, courtesy Marc Foxx – click to enlarge Like every so often and just to piss you off, I’m hijacking yet another exhibition announcement ...
La poupée by Hans Bellmer, painted wood, papier-mâché, mixed media, 1935/36, 61×170×51 cm, courtesy Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, photo © Collection Centre Pompidou/Vertrieb ...
L’Éphémère tangible by Les Deux Garçons, taxidermy, mixed media, 2011, 116 x 85 x 30 cm – click to enlarge We’re staying in Taxidermistan for yet another blog post. This time, we...
Peek into a scene of Margaretha Dubach‘s Mice Museum, photo by Andi Teuscher – click to enlarge I’m not sure how many of you remember my appeal to save the beloved Mice Museum that ...
By Richard Stipl, photo by Wurzeltod – click to enlarge Earlier this month, after visiting Essence of Edo-Tokyo at ICN, I decided to take the little journey from my old London home in Bethnal G...
Papier-mâché yokai by Ryo Arai, photo by Wurzeltod – click to enlarge Although I missed the opening reception for Ryo Arai’s show at London’s ICN Gallery, I did manage to check it o...
Pest from Bilder des Todes oder Todtentanz für alle Stände by Carl Merkel & Johann Gottfried Flegel, Leipzig, 1850 – click to enlarge “I cook doom in the air and what breathes has to...
By cyriak - it’s the newest piece by the genius behind Baaa - and via Mario Kaoru Mevy. Thank you! P.S. The next Best of YouTube is still in preparation. Sorry it’s been so long! Related ...
Jorogumo by Ryo Arai – click to enlarge This is an exhibition announcement for a brand new gallery space London, i.e. myself, has been waiting for: ICN Gallery has officially set foot in Leonar...
Sex I by Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2003, painted bronze, 246 x 244 x 125 cm, courtesy Olbricht Collection, see my detail of the sculpture here – click to enlarge There’s those types of coll...
Installation view of Love & Cruelty at Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam, showing Beretta M92 by Thom Puckey – click to enlarge If you’re in Amsterdam and you fancy some cruel lovin’,...
Installation view of Savant at High Roller Society, London, showing Richard Stipl‘s work – click to enlarge When I first got an invite to this show, I couldn’t believe that a London...
Installation view of Imaginifragus by Nicola Samori at Christian Ehrentraut, 2011 – click to enlarge I normally don’t post installation views of shows but in the case of Italian-born Nico...
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