Jeremy Wood - Traverse Me - Warwick Arts Centre.

The other day we stopped by at the Mead Gallery in Coventry to check out whatever was on there. We didn't prepare, so when we discovered that the show was a Richard Long-ish Land Art show called 'Traverse Me' by artist Jeremy Wood, I'm sure you can imagine the look on our faces. We set the detectors to super-generous, despite which, the results were disappointing for lovers of Land Art, though truly representational of the tedium we encountered. Inspired by what we saw, we grabbed our GPS tracker and got on our lawn mower and went for a ride. Here's the result;

If you look carefully, you might notice a hidden message in the path we took. The show is on until the 3rd of July. If you're in Coventry and looking for some decent art to see over the next few days, here's our advice; get on a train and go to London. Just kidding, there are some decent happenings later this week in Birmingham. It's less far and less rah than London. Watch this space for reviews. We'll be there.

Arty Fortnight.

We've been and seen a fair bit over the last few weeks, some of which we'll inevitably forget to mention. Luckily though, the majority was definite bad art so you'll not be missing much. Highlights were Florian Hecker and degree shows at Margaret Street and Nottingham Trent University. Watch this space next week for an ingenious new review system we'll be rolling out. Maybe here, maybe on our Facebook. Now...back to the spanners.

A quiet few weeks.

At this time of year, as I'm sure most people with arty interests know, is the time when a glut of dreaful art braves the real world in degree shows throughout the land. We've been to a few so far, and will continue to do so over the next week or so. If you've got any top shows or absolute howlers let us know, we've just finished applying for a bunch of stuff that will hopefully come through soon, but until then, we're using this as a chance to keep our calibration up to date.

Oh we are tired..

So ARC went well, there are some photos up on Facebook for your retrospective enjoyment, and we've popped up on a blog; (Don't ask how we found this) CuratorCharlie, which considering it is by the lady who handles TROVE, and who helped to curate the Worcester Open, its pretty flattering we got the mention.

Thanks have gone out left right and centre to everyone who helped out, but we really wanna drum home the support for ridding the world of bad art that we get!

Here's some from Wednesday;

Now, back to hunt for somewhere to build our latest invention.

ARC Poster.

A few of you eagle eyed art lovers out there may have seen a poster flying around for our ARC night next week. Just in case you haven't, here it is;

Feel free to spread it around wherever you want! The more people that come the better, and remember, we'll be certificating good-art with certificates of certification, so bring along any art you need a verdict on and we'll check it out for you!

26th of May, ARC, get it in your diaries!

We're not forgetting our Facebook roots, so here's a lovely link to an event which we'd love to see you all at! It's ARC at The Vaults, which is a monthly curation night and this month, Art Detection Services Ltd. have been asked to show Birmingham how things are done with what promises to be a night full of nothing but good art. We'll have live correction, facilities to make your own art on the night, and will be on hand to scan anything you wanted to bring along. Here come the answers to end all the questions!

http://arcbirmingham.wordpress.com/

After the break.

After a brief stint scanning the rest of the Midlands, we're back in Birmingham with detectors collected back from some local galleries, and everything down from The Good Art Gallery. Back to the attack with ARC coming up on the 26th of the month. In the diaries now please everyone, it's gonna be unmissable. Artists wanted, as always. Get in touch!