Happy New Year my intrepid Arttarts, I trust Christmas cheer was had by all. Last Year truly rolled out the red carpet on the art circuit revelry but my Arttart crystal ball informs me 2005 is the year to fill that bumper diary with all the invites of the frivolities to come.
It's your last chance to catch some of the delights from 2004. Fred Tomaselli at White Cube, where on the wintery pv night, mulled vino was sorely missed yet the exuberant colourful mixed media work make up for checking it out. Then there's Grate Britain at Cell, an eclectic mixture from carpet mountain bagpipe racket to the gorilla billboard postering from the wonderful Dan Griffiths. I wonder what Die Famille Schneider twins, who were spotted mulling around made of it, by being let off washing up duty?
Finally not forgetting the humorously enlarged monopoly board installation by Jen Lewandowska and Sam Levack presented by the Hames Levack duo under the stairs at The Trafaglar. Arttart nearly didn't make it due to the inconvenience of the Royal decent at the security frenzied ENO for some Royal Variety show malarkey, I mean the sheer outrage!
Now this week the gallery doors flew wide open for the opening of Andy Goldsworthy at Albion. All the art world money were out in force as champagne flowed and maybe more attention was paid to interesting outfits of the Battersea elite than to the wonderfully organic structures of AG. However one pv goer was overheard remarking on ‘What a waste of trees', golly they seem to have forgotten to teach art etiquette at finishing school these days.
For the highlights of the rest of the glorious onslaught of opening mayhem, tonight there is the remarkable solo show of Ian Monroe at Haunch of Venison, only a couple of years out of Goldsmith and this Saatchi backed artist presents an array of his vinylesque home interior collages, then a mere hop, skip and a jump away at Gimpel Fils we have an old tutor of yours truly, Pamela Golden.
Then as always the weekend has a couple of goodies; Henrik Plenge Larson at South London Gallery on Thursday, come Friday Stress Positions, however, Arttart and compadra are off to see Don Quixote at the Royal Festival Hall, I still have that theatre going bug that I caught over xmas and The Nutcracker and The Earthly Paradise don't seemed to have kicked the habit. But I will be strolling along to Vic Miro as she does the Photography world a huge justice in the plight of the return of painting crusade (I never knew it had gone anywhere!) and hangs some choice behind the camera stars on Saturday.
Arttart and out
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