From listadmin@worldwidereview.com Thu Nov 1 14:04:04 2007 From: listadmin@worldwidereview.com (rudi hotmail) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:04:04 -0000 Subject: [wwreview]art reviews: crack at tate, and bbq in leyton Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C81C87.AE25BA90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear you, you can write for worldwidereview which is the world's number one art = review site www.worldwidereview.com/ here's a taster of the tasty and tate reviews:=20 doris salcedo's crack at tate modern on sunday Review: I am filled with loathing when I view from the bridge the names on the = Modern. The rain and the sky=20 are good and the names are gray and lifeless. Bourgeois, Salcedo, the = world as stage, something=20 else. All the same crap you can see everywhere in the wonderful world of = art. Inside, the temple has=20 been given over to the moneychangers who now make their profits in = overpriced sandwiches and=20 other merchandise. The crowds fill the corridors and trample up the = escalators and queue for their=20 lattes and the whole thing is designed not to exalt art but keep you = moving, the very opposite of a=20 place to contemplate art. The Crack is a theatrical stunt, a seedy = David Copperfield illusion, a=20 chickenwire and plaster of paris piece of flimflam for the gawpers, a = conceptual stunt which belongs=20 in a shopping mall, and has found its spiritual home in the Tate. = Marvelous says the little man in a=20 scarf pushing a pram to his snivelling daughter Flo, while his pale wife = attempts to squirt some organic=20 juice into their other brat. And who can dissent from success do you like crack? click here to comment west indian barbecue by bakers arm leytonReview: The smoke billows through the cold air carrying the smell of jerk = chicken as you get off the bus in the=20 dark of winter arriving.. I think the barbecue is attached to the = entrepreneurial pub, which has=20 previously set up a bouncy castle perilously close to the road. I saw a = sign a few weeks ago=20 appealing for witnesses to a shot being fired from a car at people = outside the bakers arms. A=20 landmark then. The chicken is brought out of black bin bag, burnt, = smoked, cooked on a drum bbq,=20 and then sliced on a picnic table and wrapped in foil. All this takes = place on the pavement, as though=20 the street is a common space, where anything might happen. And I stop = and watch the cooking, and=20 think whether to get in the queue, which may in fact just be other = spectators. And I decide I can't wait=20 but walk off cheered. fun bbq or street nuisance? ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C81C87.AE25BA90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear you,
 
you can write for = worldwidereview which=20 is the world's number one art review site www.worldwidereview.com/
 
here's a taster of the tasty and tate = reviews:=20
 
doris salcedo's crack = at tate=20 modern on sunday
Review:

I am filled=20 with loathing when I view from the bridge the names on the Modern. The = rain and=20 the sky
are good and the names are gray and lifeless. Bourgeois, = Salcedo,=20 the world as stage, something
else. All the same crap you can see = everywhere=20 in the wonderful world of art. Inside, the temple has
been given = over to the=20 moneychangers who now make their profits in overpriced sandwiches and =
other=20 merchandise. The crowds fill the corridors and trample up the escalators = and=20 queue for their
lattes and the whole thing is designed not to exalt = art but=20 keep you moving, the very opposite of a
place to contemplate = art.  The=20 Crack is a theatrical stunt, a  seedy David Copperfield illusion, a =
chickenwire and plaster of paris piece of flimflam for the gawpers, = a=20 conceptual stunt which belongs
in a shopping mall, and has found its = spiritual home in the Tate. Marvelous says the little man in a
scarf = pushing=20 a pram to his snivelling daughter Flo, while his pale wife attempts to = squirt=20 some organic
juice into their other brat. And who can dissent from=20 success
do you like crack? click here to comment

west indian barbecue by bakers arm =
leyton
Review:

The smoke billows through the cold air carrying the =
smell of jerk chicken as you get off the bus in the=20
dark of winter arriving.. I think the barbecue is attached to the =
entrepreneurial pub, which has=20
previously  set up a bouncy castle perilously close to the road. I saw a =
sign a few weeks ago=20
appealing for witnesses to a shot being fired from a car at people =
outside the bakers arms. A=20
landmark then.  The chicken is brought out of black bin bag, burnt, =
smoked, cooked on a drum bbq,=20
and then sliced on a picnic table and wrapped in foil. All this takes =
place on the pavement, as though=20
the street is a common space, where anything might happen. And I stop =
and watch the cooking, and=20
think whether to get in the queue, which may in fact just be other =
spectators. And I decide I can't wait=20
but walk off cheered. 
 
fun bbq or street nuisance?
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