Potato
Posted by cathedralofshit on August 22, 2011
Hard times at the Arts Council. Forced to make a 50% cut in administration costs over the next two years, Andrew ‘Twitter’ Nairne, current Executive Director for Arts at ACE, has addressed the problem by… leaving. Andrew is to be the new Director of Kettle’s Yard, a potato crisp factory in Cambridge where he began his career in the early 1980s. Andrew is taking a massive pay cut in the process but then Cambridge’s fine gothic architecture will provide better inspiration for his tweets that Stoke Newington ever did.
Keep on tweeting Andrew, keep the poetry alive.
ben varney said
oh god
Gifty said
The flight of the Curatateiat of Stamford Hill/Upper Clapton/East Stokey has started. The riots arent all bad then. It’s the smart move for him. The one thing missing from his CV is running a collection based organisation so four years in Cambridge then a pop at the Tate when Serota retires. Cecily Browns all round.
Gnomemansland said
Maybe Serota can go back to the Whitechapel which since its ‘upgrade’ is good for a game of hide and seek and that is about it….
Gifty said
Maybe Channel 4 will do a Gallery Directors version of ‘Wife Swap’ with Iwona and Nick changing positions for a week.
Miranda Slanda said
I think we can all agree about how effective Andrew has been at the Arts Council.
Gifty said
I spoke to soon as I see Drawing Room/Tannery-UBS Warburg are quitting ‘ackney for Southwark. No more ironic street parties for the hardened yoof of De Beauvoir Town. You can’t expect the funders to hoik it all the way from Westminster to now afterall.
am said
on their website (Drawing Room’s) are some of the most miserable photographs from their permanent fund raiser. In the one of Patrick Brill I estimate that he now has 5 chins. Iwona looks as though she has the intelligence of just one of them. Mary Doyle looks as though she had been dropped by a cat but is still worried that the sausage rolls will not hold out. They will bring pocketable misery to Bermondsey.
Gifty said
In ten years time they will be occupying a portacabin on the edge of the still vacant lot where the Tate Modern extension was supposed to go.
artheist said
and this is not true: ‘Drawing Room is the only public, non-profit, gallery in the UK and Europe dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing.’
they are just the only one that is big and has lots of £.
anyway i a glad they are gone outta my hood.
Morlock said
OMG CATHEDRAL OF SHIT RU DEAD?
fumer said
Talking of potatoes, the monks in the Mosque of Manure haven’t dug up any of late… Are you observing a vow of silence?
am said
just when you think cos has fucked off she comes back with a glorious whooping .. like a slight intake of air… late October.
Hannah Barry said
Is this the end of this vile so-called “blog”? I do hope so
LOL
Ekow Eshun said
So do I.
Gifty said
White Cube off to Bermondsey as well. It’s like an episode of ‘Relocation, Relocation, Relication’
drunk boy said
saw twatter nerne outside the first site gallery the other week at the opening all alone and shuned by the world waiting for a few cronies to hope into a cab,
Mosstop said
R.I.P. COS
fumer said
Dear Cos,
Have you died?
Regards,
Fumer
Jan Hammer said
i think they must have. Surely FAF11 will bring them out
Miranda Slanda said
Julie Lomax’s Twitter Account (@JulieLomax) is worth $5.47 USD.
Gnomemansland said
Really missing the shit – especially with all the turds in town for the art fair.
fumer said
Yeah, Frieze weak… That tent in The Regents Park is like a giant nappy, what with all those turds on the lose…
fumer said
While the the cats away, why don’t we mice play guess who CoS really are?
shitshovel said
Merlin Carpenter
am said
Christ, don’t you imagine how deflating it would be to know.
Change the subject. Anyone notice Jay Jopling looking like an old pigskin football last week?
fumer said
Not really, as they are MIA (moved to Berlin?) perhaps they should be named.
Pigskin, foreskin more like…
Miranda Slanda said
CoS and Julie Lomax have never been seen in the same place at the same time.
am said
That’s right, but Julie Lomax has never been in the same place at the same time.
Ask Simon Popper.
fumer said
Yeah Simon Popper, he’s my front runner, he’s always on the look out for the turds hiding in the shit…
Ralph Rugoff said
I reckon its been a great use of taxpayers cash to persuade Kanye to play tonight.
fumer said
And Poppers* has got that friend Giles Rind (or something), I bet they are being run my Maureen Paley as art world provocateurs.
*Apparently his effects set in very quickly, within a few seconds – they include decrease in blood pressure, headache, flushing of the face, increased heart rate, dizziness, and relaxation of involuntary muscles – and disappear soon after…
am said
ANYTHING for a dinner.
I had Cerith Wynn Evans as Cos: that last bit of functionality given over to dictation.
fumer said
How about Richard Hamilton? He died, and then so did CoS…
mirandaslanda said
First Andrew..now Julie…who apparently is currently Director of Visual Arts for the Arts Council England, not just London. Rats! Ship! Sinking!
http://www.visualarts.net.au/newsdesk/2011/11/julie-lomax-appointed-as-new-director-visual-arts-ozco
dallas said
RIP Cathedral of shit, you’ll be sorely missed…you took us through the hard times, and gave us a shoulder to lean on, and especially we had some good times, with the free booze….. but more importantly you lit the spark of hope …please return xx
Suzanne said
Come back, CoS. I’m begging you. I just got an email from Pertwee Anderson & Gold suggesting I join the Rothschild Supper Club and someone needs to cover all this inane crap.
Ruggles said
its sarah mcrory and some nob who works for frieze. they were warned off posting anymore and are being well-behaved, obedient little art worlders.
fumer said
Who warned them off?
Rum said
Nah, it’s not them… has anyone seen Niru and Julie Lomax in the same room at the same time?
Sarah McCrory said
It’s fucking well not me.
Actually.
Happy Christmas.
animateprojects said
We would like to encourage everyone to get creative and use Julie as inspiration to make some little works of art!
Jermy Duller said
Yes that is also what I heard – COS has been outed as Sarah Mcrory and that kid who works at frieze! Losers!
Sarah McCrory said
Again. Not me. Or any kid at Frieze.
Bah.
That kid who works at Frieze said
Yes, it’s me!