by Alan Todd | Oct 19, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Maybe there is a logic to this process that is simply beyond me, and I suspect, to much of the art world where even dealers are mystified, while the general public are inevitably in the dark to the point where they have stopped caring. In October 2022 the...
by Alan Todd | Feb 28, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
I’ve come across this phenomenon a few times before where the broken, the shredded, the lost and the unfinished in the Arts are acclaimed as much as is the pristine. This week it was a Koons Balloon Dog. An artist-collector wants to buy the broken shards,...
by Alan Todd | Feb 24, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
For a century or more the scientific community has fixated on not just the preservation of human life but the infinite extension of it. Google, among others, is investing huge sums of money into ways of rejigging organs, eliminating wasting diseases and...
by Alan Todd | Nov 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the early 70s musicians Georgie Fame and Alan Price came together to produce an album entitled the Price of Fame. For five minutes they were well known, failed to destroy any hotel rooms and made the papers for all the right reasons. The music was less than...
