More art for the masses

What a weekend - a trip to Kinetica on Thursday and a trip to the (almost) Affordable Art Fair on Saturday. Seemed to be more decent stuff there than ever before. Starting with a creche.

But also, I'd never really appreciated quite how sales-y, art gallery (err) salespeople actually are. "Oh, that's my favourite too.", "Yes, it's been getting a lot of interest' at one end of the spectrum to , "Have you got your car here? We can always bring it out to you, and if it does turn out to be too big then we can always deliver."

Either way, they're good. It worked. And one of the many (ahem) things we bought did just fit in the car. And now looks great on the wall.

It's all about the art, isn't it?

A rare night out at Kinetica gallery last Thursday, aided by plentiful quantities of monkey shoulder whiskey at a private view for some great art. The blurb describes it as:

A sensory environment of sound and vision combining organic forms and machine aesthetic

But to my eyes, it's basically a lot of old-looking machines brilliantly, and humorously built from discarded bits of other old machines. And the best thing is that they move in strange and exciting ways or make strange or exciting sounds when plugged into the mains. Well worth a view while the gallery is still there (God, how Spitalfields has changed).

Especially pleased to see my mate Nik Ramage's most excellent DVD on display on the way in - and bringing many smiles to people's faces. But I also really liked Ray Lee's spinning sound installations. Most impressive.