The Terminal Bar at TROVE

The most recent show at TROVE was pretty intense, this time curated by Morgan Quaintance as opposed to the usual Trove-y duo. What we saw can best describe like this;

...but black and white. We had to use double strength art detecting fluid due to the vast number of images on display. And we're pleased to announce that it got a midway-between-decent-and-awesome in all our tests.

1970s o'clock.

We just got in from a pretty intensely hot scanning at Ikon Gallery. Well, actually, we got in about 2 hours ago. And we might have stopped off after Ikon at the pub. But aside from that we we went to the opening of Ikon's 'This Could Happen To You'. We're not so sure it could, not without a time machine anyway, and although we have one, it's a little dusty and rusty, so we'll stick to the point. The show was pretty fine. It refers to the birth of Ikon in the 70s, possibly from some kind of gigantic artistic gallery womb-come-mothership. Here's a picture of two of our operatives closely examining the show;

Now at this stage there are two possible conclusions for you to choose from. We suggest tossing a coin to decide which. So

Heads - Most of our agents weren't alive in the 70s - Who was?! And in that respect, what we saw was the perfect example of art from the time. Great!

Tails - Pretty sure that if this had been a true representation of the 70s the pieces would've been mounted atop much more hideous walls than at Ikon.

The show runs till some time in the future. Go. You've probably stopped reading by now anyway, but it's alright, really, quite alright.

Book Show at Eastside Projects.

We spent quite a while writing a complex and reasoned discussion as to why our detectors gave Book Show (or BOOK SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as they seemed to prefer shouting on the website) at Eastside Projects a marginal fail. We then stumbled across a book which expressed it better than we ever could. Here it is;

As much as initial long review would have been suitably tedious and in that way reflective of the show, we opted on this occasion to use literature to convey our point. Something it feels Eastside Projects didn't bother with.

Don't get too down about it though arts-fans, we saw a super show just around the corner. A review is winging its way towards you.