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  • Iain Sterdam gets The Swells

    ~A Long-Form ‘Review’ of the Melanie Bonajo Show at Akinci~ Unlike what is common in most men, the slowing of the blood formation system until dysfunction, my erections didn’t start till I was twenty-eight, and even then I could only get a semi. As a child I wondered what was wrong with me. I saw…

  • Iain Sterdam goes to Annet Gelink

    ~The Next Revolution In Art Will Be The Same, Old Revolution~ Because the artist is working within the tradition of the nude, which is an already an abstraction of the naked, I don’t know what the artist is trying to convey by abstracting the nude, further, by covering the faces of her subjects. The mask…

  • Iain Sterdam goes to De Jordaan

    ~Spring Time Short-Form Gallery Reviews from Our Resident Old Fogey~ Torch gallery – ‘Perennial’ – Anya Jansen – 1st March until 5th April Rating – Not Good I don’t go here usually, but Annet Gelink was closed so I thought what the hell. The source that this painter draws from seems to be photographic. There…

  • Monkey Bars

    ~A Long-Form Review of The Sites of Sybold van Ravestyn~ The Egyptian hieroglyph for ‘town-site city region’ the ‘Nwit’ is two intersecting lines forming an ‘x’ with a circle drawn around the stroke tips. A crossroads, a meeting, an encircling moat. It’s a lovely design, it speaks: a city is the place in which travellers…