Who shows us the way today? Art it seems has been well & truly co-opted and is no longer at the service of the Muse or indeed the mind. It pays its dues to commerce – now just simply another commodified object, no more interesting it seems, then the price of a specialized sports car or high-end
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EXHIBIT at Golden Lane Estate, 50 Robots by James Johnson-Perkins, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.exhibit-goldenlane.com Vegas, STARLIGHT, Anneke Wilbrink, 6.30-9pm, info: www.vegasgallery.co.uk
Vilma Gold, Charles Atlas, Tornado Warning, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.vilmagold.com
Montague Arms, Frog Morris presents Micro Performance Evening. A variety of intimate and yet informal performance curated by Rebecca Birch. 8.30pm, The Montague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 5RZ Entry 3 quid
And Finally but not least NOVEMBER 13TH: An Experiment On {...}

Photo by Dan Sumption
First Thursdays 6 th Nov 08
Redchurch Street saw eight shows which threw a lot of art against white walls for the now extremely popular night out for Londoners known as first Thursdays.
But being the east London free for all art scene, only some of it stuck. The shows of note were definitely Sean Mcklusky’s {...}

“Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its present. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.”Malcolm McLaren
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Heart of Glass in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall is the central exhibition of the art strand of CONCRETE & GLASS. Organised in association with the Contemporary Art Society, the 33 emerging and established artists exhibiting in the show were selected through open submission out of {...}