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I took last week off and spent it slumming around London, so you now get two art reviews for the price of one. And when i say 'art', I mean of course playing in odd playgrounds for adults. The most talked about of course is Test Site, the enormous slide in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Only five? They should have filled that thing with slides! The queuing system was very oddly handled. W ...

Performance artist Mark McGowan plans to leave six taps running for a year at secret London locations as a protest against private control of water in the UK. Last year McGowan left a tap running in a south London gallery, but bowed to pressure to turn it off after a month. That stunt used 800,000 litres of water, and angered many Thames Water customers and gallery visitors - some of whom turned ...

So I went and checked out the new installation at the fantastic Turbine Hall, under the Tate Modern. It's called 'Embankment', by Rachel Whitehead. It's not much to look at from the outside, but once you're actually inside the thing, it's a lot more fun. There are lots of nooks and crannies to explore, and a million different angles to view it from. Not as cool at The Weather Project, but defini ...

Have you ever heard of a guy named Gustav Vigeland? Yeah, I'd never heard of him, either. This is a great shame, because he's one of the most interesting artists I've yet to encounter. Monet and Turner get mega-installations at the National gallery while this guy wallows in relative (I must stress that's it's only relative, presumably everyone in Norway knows of him) obscurity. ...

One of the (many) advantages of being, well, me, is that I seem to gravitate, through accident or unconcious design, towards extremely talented people, particularly in the creative arena. Most of my friends have exceptional gifts, be they manifest in music, poetry, art, photography, web design, modelling, writing, cinematography, animation or comedy [and a few of the bastards are just good at bloo ...