art – Tom Chivers

Re: Remote Factory

SOME RECENT THINGS >>> Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky (Penguin) factorycraft by FOUND (Chemikal Underground) Re: by Ahren Warner (Donut Press) Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today Susan Hiller at Tate Britain

Charm Offensive

I would like to recommend a new artists’ journal entitled Charm Offensive. Volume One contains a poem of mine, ‘Tina is a Rottweiler’, new writing by Edward Larrikin, Jonnie Fielding and Barnaby Tidman, and illustration/design by a number of very talented visual artists. Charm Offensive is beautifully produced, something to get your hands on if you can.Continue reading “Charm Offensive”

The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Last week my girlfriend and I went to see a new exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery. The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art invites us to step into an exhibition of objects, paintings, photographs and installations assembled by alien curators. Martian hieroglyphs decorate the walls. Copper tracks embedded in the gallery floor direct us to areas with titles like ‘Totems’, ‘Icons’ and ‘Kinship Diagrams’. The Museum’s DirectorContinue reading “The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art”