Articles by Talking Pictures

BAD KITTY AND THE TOOTHACHE

January 19, 2020

A toothache, thought Bad Kitty, is like someone else’s dog scratching at your guest-bedroom door all night. A toothache is a cold vibrating funnel sucking in the undone chores (the unanswered emails, the phone calls to return, the formalwear [...]

drilling emptiness

January 19, 2020

hydraulic stilts more than fifty shipping containers on the drifting ice shelf of denialism a johnsian thing with tap root a latter day alchemy a flag with atmosphere as big as two or three conveniences massive inches a flag dripping paint on [...]

Is it Fair (to Valloton) to Hang Picasso’s Gertrude Stein Right Next to Valloton’s Gertrude Stein at Valloton’s show at The Met?

January 2, 2020

It really isn’t. Not at all. Picasso’s Stein is a masterpiece and just so much better than Valloton’s Stein or anything else in the show. Still, it is very interesting to [...]

spacing

December 20, 2019

switchbacks’ S shaped twist unstructured fizz where particles escape from deep within the girl brigade of coronal holes pussy cat’s dust thin skinned with a dash of thermal gradients cooling the rolling chest, tool chest the [...]

CNQ draws Peter Bonner, Barbara Laube, and Ben Pritchard at M.David

December 7, 2019

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Renee Cox: The Holy Family

November 30, 2019

I want to talk about Origins in the context of visual invention and the evolution of Christian iconography. To find out more of the backstory (for example, why the left-hand panel, christened Yo Mama, has shown alone until now) I refer [...]

keys

November 23, 2019

faith, energy and trauma travel lodges stifling rooms world eroding teen tongue vogues blow i remember feeble carnations behind a dead mother the tied up chin or “clusters of grapes” or the scolding of words or financialisation or flat [...]

Parable #17: After Taking Down the Trees

November 6, 2019

After Stretch took down the two trees, cut them into sections and loaded them onto his pick up truck, he told me he would be back to rake up the debris. But after two days I figured, no big deal, I would rake it myself. On the third day, a [...]

Victor Muniz and Christian Marclay: One-offs

November 1, 2019

A selling point of both of these shows is that the works shown are “one of a kind” (Muniz) and “unique” (Marclay)l. Actually, they are manufactured objects which they only made one of. High-end manufacturing—but still. A major trend in [...]

Ed Clark, A Great Painter

October 22, 2019

PS I’m very sorry to say that I just found out that Ed Clark died last Friday. In the interview I quote from below, he also said “I want to be called ‘great’.” No problem, Ed. When I saw my first Ed Clark, TBC… ( at “Painting Now and [...]

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