Oil Spill Sculpture

...inside Tate Britain against links with BP.

One year after the Mexico desaster BP now engages in tar sands extraction in Canada and wants to start risky drilling in the arctic. more info

more images.

The Vienna Opera Ball

 ...is a very old fashioned affair.

...and no, this time no political direct actions involved. Alles Walzer.

Neil Labute

...is said to be contemporary cinema's most misanthropic director.
 

 But he was nice to me.

Matthew Morrison

... plays Mr Schuester in "Glee"

   ...and I am not enough of a teenager to tell you more about him.

The March for the Alternative, London 26.03.2011

Katharine Hamnett

  

 ...campaigns for organic cotton and many other things... 

 

  ...working in "the very happy studio". 

The 950 Million Nursery

Royal Bank of Scotland donates it's 950 Million Pounds in bonus payments to avoid cuts in school and nursery budgets. On Saturday 26th RBS inaugurated a newly secured flagship-nursery on Bishopsgate....NOT.

The new faces of protest

The New Review asked me if I would Portray some of the people behind recent student protest in a studio session. I suggested we should do it in the style of "The Family". portraits of the most powerful politicians in the USA commissioned by the Rolling Stone Magazine in 1976. The Indy agreed and they all received the Richard Avedon treatment.  

A hint of political symbolism (and don't worry: I know Avedon is the better photographer).

Orgy of the rich @ Sotheby's

 

 http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/ ; http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ ;http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/

Adam Ant

...might have his mental conditions, but when I met him he definitely must have had a good day. No PRs, no hair and make-up artists, no fancy hotelroom. Just the real Adam Ant in his crazy flat. You don't get that very often these days.

Adam & Georgina Baillie