Rusty McCrushem’s Car Mash

…es of destruction that Rusty commands. This gives the whole a kind of lambs-to-slaughter feel. Is this a sly McCrushem nod to the one-way street of universal decay? Rusty’s innate talent for mashing cars pummels the senses. The results are spectacular. I feel I have come across a scene of extraordinary violence but the screams of twisted automotive pain are stilled now. Only the curlew calls. It’s difficult to imagine how this obliteration was ach… Continue reading

Be surprised at the Ariana Museum!

…gant, delicate and kinetic but, at the same time, solid in a weighty, glass-and-steel kind of way. “Pagan Remembrance” (2008) by Philip Baldwin and Monika Guggisberg. I go to the Ariana every couple of months or so for a rendez-vous with my veiled lady. I play with the idea of inviting her to lunch at the discrete little restaurant on the first floor. So I cannot really claim that I was going to see the current temporary exhibition: “8 artists & c… Continue reading

Patrick Vale’s time-lapse New York cityscape

…Who? Patrick Vale What? Stunning time-lapse drawing of Manhattan. For whom? You! Everybody! For free! When? April 2012 Where? Manhattan… Or maybe somewhere in the UK? How? Pen, ink, camera and… time. Lots of time! What does it mean for me? Martin meets Katka and Daniel!… Continue reading