Art World Exposed Podcast episode #67

Saldo Caluthe and Tomas Sinke present another episode of Art World Exposed.

This week:

00:00 welcome, chit chat, did Tomas succeed in buying Amelia Crescent’s 1879 oil painting of a rowing boat sinking in the Irish Sea? Was it painted from life?

26:12 Welcome this week’s guest H.L. Botters, one of the key members of The Stick Insects, the art group that grew up around L.S. Lowry. Memories of L.S. Lowry. An amusing tale of how L.S. Lowry developed his technique. Vox Pops in Salford: Does anyone know what the L.S. in L.S. Lowry stand for?

35:34 Saldo reports on the art market, especially the rumours that Daven Strickland’s work “Hang this painting in a darkened room” sold for over £130 million to a collector in Flanders.

42:56 A recap of the many amusing art world jokes that have been doing the rounds this week.

52:31 Is cricket one of the fine arts? Arguments on both sides.

57:00 Drawing the tombola winner for the prize of a Monet sketch of Denmark Hill on Bastille Day

59:22 Goodbyes.

New Bin work! Summer Bin (Overflowing)

They just get better and better. Here we have a succinct summary of modern life, all in one frame. The overwork, the pain, greed, overweightery and individuality bursting out from its confines. Oboe speaks to the human condition. Her medium here might be bins, but the subtext is nothing less than Aristotelian. Go Oboe! Keep the bins coming!

Untitled (Wimbledon Common from above) – New abstract work from Ptolemy

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What a fire cracker of a work! Ptolemy hits it out of the All-England Club once again with his meditation on existence and grass. “July is when I watch more tennis than any other time of the year. Of course I am primed to make art about the daily assault of grass on my eyes. The way it dies over the length of the tournament, it is heart-breaking, yet we must struggle on. In my work the grass never dies, it fights on, showing us the path and leading the way. Onward!”

Ptolemy is the only abstract artist I ever look at. Any other abstract artist is just a waste of eyeball energy.

Coca Nyula, art critic, dress designer and part-time magician