Garment District
Posted by Chris H on September 1st, 2008Read Will’s latest Necessary Steps column in the New York Times.
26.08.08
Archive for the 'Journalism' Category
Interview with the Chapman brothers
Posted by Chris H on August 14th, 2008The following article was first published in the current issue of Art World Magazine.
Standing in front of One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved XIV in the ground-floor gallery of the White Cube, Mason’s Yard, Jake Chapman pointed to the stitched furrows in the pinched face that swam out of the muddy oils. ‘It looks,’ he said, ‘like something you might see on DMT.’ He was referring to dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogen so powerful that Terence McKenna, the veteran astronaut of inner space, described its effects as akin to ‘being fired from a psychedelic cannon’.
It’s your job to stand up to the bigots, Archbishop
Posted by Chris H on August 6th, 2008Will’s latest ES column is here.
05.08.08
Necessary steps
Posted by Chris H on August 6th, 2008Read Will’s piece in the New York Times about travelling from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head, along the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire. You can read other ‘Necessary steps’ articles here too, such as his walks in New York, Brazil, Jura and France.
05.08.08
Kitchen confidential
Posted by Chris H on August 3rd, 2008Read Will’s Psychogeography column where he goes to work on “celebrity egg-flippers”.
02.08.08
Asylum years
Posted by Chris H on July 29th, 2008I remember, in my early twenties, visiting a friend who was detained under a section at the Friern mental hospital on the outskirts of north London. The low, brick buildings scattered about the greensward, the pathos of the mullions, the urine-coloured linoleum – it all made a desolate impression on me. Together with its sister establishment, the Halliwick, Friern was – depending which way you looked at it – a therapeutic community, or a gulag into which the non-functioning and the indigent inhabitants of the city could be dumped.
Why the Met must come clean about its cock-ups
Posted by Chris H on July 29th, 2008You can read Will’s Standard column here.
29.07.08
Golden balls
Posted by Chris H on July 22nd, 2008Will’s latest Psychogeography column is here.
19.07.08
I’m not fooled by Purnell’s new welfare conjuring trick
Posted by Chris H on July 22nd, 2008Will’s latest Standard column can be read here.
22.07.08
Banksy lost his street cred the moment he found fame
Posted by Chris H on July 15th, 2008There’s been no confirmation yet but it looks as if the reclusive graffiti artist Banksy may have had his real identity revealed as 34-year-old ex-public schoolboy Robin Gunningham. You can understand why he went for nom-de-spraycan, if indeed Gunningham is the person responsible for all those subtly subversive images: the rats wielding rocket-propelled grenades along the Embankment, and the legend Do Not Paint Over This Graffiti by the Albert Bridge, to name but two.
