"With sharing and repeating ideas easier than ever before we need to be more vigilant to distinguish between those things that are really true and those we have simply heard many times before.
The more something is repeated the more it starts to feel true"
If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true. More info on cognitive ease: http://bit.ly/29OMGas This episode was inspired by the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Thinking of building a high value art collection?
This one's for you.
BBC documentary looking at the high-stakes and sometimes murky world of art collecting
The Bankers Guide to Art - BBC iPlayer
Louis Savage
Kintsukuroi (Lateral Inhibition)
Oil on Linen
190 x 160cm
RIGHT/Kintsukuroi (Lateral Inhibition) in the exhibition Louis Savage: Kurofune at Lacey Contemporary London
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. - Wittgenstein
For any more info please feel free to contact me.
A short trailer for a recent painting.
Apep.
Oil on Linen.
170cm x 140cm.
By Louis Savage
Music: C.C.S Logbook
by The Evpatoria Report
Some great shows currently on in London.
Jim Hodges at
Stephen Friedman Gallery
Gallery One
25-28 Old Burlington Street
London
W1S 3AN
Artist Anselm Kiefer discusses Thomas McEvilley’s "The Shape of Ancient Thought", and other ideas that affect his art, with Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Anselm Kiefer - Getty Museum Talk
View on Youtube
Rubens at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Making Discoveries: Rubens' Ghost at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Visit a life-size X-ray of the Gallery’s painting Venus, Mars and Cupid by the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, revealing some fascinating alterations made by the artist
Preserved and buried under the sea for over a thousand years, the stunning objects in the exhibition range from magnificent colossal statues to intricate gold jewellery. Sacred offerings and ritual objects reveal the cult of Osiris – the god of the underworld who held the promise of eternal life.
A diver shows a marble statue of Osiris
Definitely worth watching this three-part series on masculinity with artist Grayson Perry.
Episode one looks into MMA cage fighting in the North of England.
Grayson Perry ceramic penis inspired by City of London Bankers
Thomas Pynchon - Against The Day
Your brain is you. So when it becomes injured it can have massive effects on your personality. Louis Theroux takes a look at the issues that some of the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injury have to deal with.
Fantastic new Georg Baselitz show at White Cube, building on the “Avignon” series of large-scale, vulnerable self-portraits launched at last year’s Arsenale exhibition in Venice.
A photo of me in front of Study for Xibalba
An interesting talk between painter Matt Connors and documentary film maker Matt Wolf at The Walker Art Centre
Using Jason Allemanns design you can now build an animated diorama of the Greek legend Sisyphus pushing a rock uphill for all eternity, all for yourself.
