Category Archives: art

Two days in London

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Just back from two event-packed days in London. One’s sense of a city is necessarily skewed by what takes place in it, so right now the capital – after two book launches, a meeting with my editor at Picador and … Continue reading →

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This is not a time for dreaming…

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Charles Lambert

…is the name of a video we saw this summer at the Beaubourg. It’s on the lower of the two floors, halfway down on the left and was made by Pierre Huyghe, an artist I’ve never come across before. I … Continue reading →

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Writing as madness

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This summer, I saw a painting I’d never seen before, in the Centre Pompidou. Entitled Peinture (Ecriture rose) and covering a fair-sized chunk of wall (maybe three metres by four), it’s the work of Simon Hantai and was done in … Continue reading →

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Blood and sperm

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Charles Lambert

An exhibition in the once-red city of Bologna has been closed after complaints of abominable blasphemy from the catholic church. The offending collective was named La Madonna Piange Sperma (The Madonna Weeps Sperm). This would be unremarkable if the reference … Continue reading →

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Schlock

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I went to see the new Quentin Tarantino film last night with Sally. The two of us were alone in the cinema apart from a group of teenagers, mostly boys, nerdy types as QT must have been, who behaved in … Continue reading →

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Layers of meaning

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This comes from a rusting metal door a few streets from where I live. I’ve no idea how it got there, though it has a Banksy sort of artiness about it. Zorro and X-Men seem to have been added at … Continue reading →

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Non-literal geographies

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Once again, thanks to Bits and Pieces for this. The post says: This canvas by artist Kim Dingle doesn’t look like a map, more like a herd of cows. But actually it’s a collection of maps. The artist asked teen-aged … Continue reading →

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High art and low jinks

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Just a few words about the Beckmann opening last Thursday at the Casa di Goethe. To be honest, I barely saw the opening itself, merely its buffet and bar in the rather lovely courtyard within the palazzo,complete with luxuriant large-leafed … Continue reading →

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Observation vs reasoning

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I visited my local police station this morning to report the theft of a credit card. On the wall behind the officer who took my statement was a handwritten aphorism, which went more or less like this: A lot of … Continue reading →

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Beckmann and Goethe

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

La Casa di Goethe, one of Rome’s most attractive and manageable museums, occupies the apartment in Via del Corso 18 that Goethe is believed to have stayed in during his time in Rome. The museum celebrates its tenth anniversary this … Continue reading →

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