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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Bostonist is introducing a new feature: Bostonian of the Week, in which we profile interesting figures seen around town. Know someone we should feature? Email tips at bostonist dot com. Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys have been all over the place lately. They were our Photo of the Day last week, are now our Bostonians of the Week, will be playing the Cantab Lounge soon, and are coming out...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
This picture of Edrie and Walter from the avant-garde/goth band Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys , is simply a great portrait. The black and white tones are rich, the patterns are interesting, and well, this Bostonist just happens to be a sucker for cool facial hair...so bonus points for the killer 'stache. Definitely check out their website , it's uber-trippy
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The British painter, critic, and novelist Wyndham Lewis was a monster of intolerance - yet Walter Sickert once called him "the greatest portraitist of this, or any other time". What is more, an exhibition of Lewis's portraits at the National...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"The greatest portraitist of this or any other time", Walter Sickert once called Wyndham Lewis. Blimey. It's a rare artist-to-artist compliment, and the National Portrait Gallery makes much of it at the entrance to "Wyndham Lewis: Portraits". Not entirely wrong, though. He's certainly one of the the greatest.
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Here is a photo gallery of the Martin Bisi record release show at the Knitting Factory in NYC (May 11, ...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
In the period 1911-1913, a group of British artists regularly met in Camden Town, north London, and established themselves as the vanguard of early-20th-century British art. The painters, including Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner and Spencer Gore, depicted London life in a style influenced by French Impressionism and other Modernist styles.
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Jeffrey Archer's Official Blog (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
I visited a quite exceptional exhibition at the Tate under the title, Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group. This is a group of painters led by Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore, that were founded in London in 1911. They were admirers of, and influenced by, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. It's always thrilling to find an outstanding painter you've never heard of, and in this case it was Charles
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
Call it a fairly quiet revolution. In 1911, a group of male painters – Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond, Spencer Gore and others – came together in London to define what looks, with hindsight, like a pragmatic English response to continental developments in painting – to Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Van Gogh, Gauguin and others.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
LONDON - Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group is the first exhibition for twenty years to focus on the work of a circle of painters who were a leading force in modern British art in the years leading up to, and during the First World War. Founded by Walter Sickert in 1911, the Group chronicled changes in both British society and the rapidly developing city of London, depicting a powerful portrait...
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Cheezy's Blog - Scratch & Sniff (Free subscription) | 20/01/2008
A few years ago the crime novelist Patricia Cornwell produced a book which fingered the celebrated painter Walter Sickert as Jack the Ripper. Confidently sub-titled 'Case Closed' , the book includes an in-depth psychological profile of Sickert, as well as DNA evidence linking some of his paintings to the so-called 'Ripper letters'. There was just one problem with this book: it was bollocks. Her psychological...
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Flaming Fairy (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
If you're in London and you get a chance, go see the Walter Sickert nudes exhibition at the Courtauld Institute. It's on until January 20, and it's stunning. Friends of ours used to live at 6, Mornington Crescent, which is where Sickert lived in the early part of the twentieth century. Sickert, some of you might know, was fingered by Patricia Cornwell as being Jack The Ripper. Something to do with...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 22/12/2007
Music --Multimedia artist and musician Brian Dewan will join Bostonist faves Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys , the Boston Typewriter Orchestra , and S. Joe Hazelwood at Church . Of course, the Broken Toys are promising frilly panties and corsets. 69 Kilmarnock Street, 9:00 pm. --The Lemonheads make a return to the Middle East. Evan Dando is bringing members of the Descendents with him. Dando...
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Art Boobs (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Walter Sickert, Mornington Crescent Nude, c. 1907, Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 50.8 cm. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. © Estate of Walter R. Sickert/DACS 2007. At the beginning of the 20th century, Walter Sickert (1860-1942) painted a remarkable series of female nudes which confirmed his reputation as one of the most important modern British artists. The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery , London presents...
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The blog art (Free subscription) | 08/11/2007
The exhibition at the Courtauld Institute brings the artist's Camden Town 'murder' paintings together. Forget those ludicrous Ripper theories and concentrate on a great talent.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
A richly rewarding show reveals the intelligence that Walter Sickert poured into his paintings of London low-life, says Richard Dorment.
