New York, Shanghai, Stoke-onTrent - My Dog Sighs, Flora Borsi and Jimmy Cauty

New York Loneliness, My Dog Sighs, 2016

The last few posts here have been pretty negative about the state of both Art with a capital A and the sort of art you find on bus shelters.  The good news is there is still plenty of good stuff around.  Here's three of the best, currently exhibiting around the world: New York, Shanghai and Stoke-on-Trent.

First off, our old friend My Dog Sighs. In New York. And in Southsea.

My Dog Sighs, Brooklyn, photo by @zurburan1 

 The day the world turned day-glo, My Dog Sighs

 available now from www.mydogsighs.co.uk - going, going, gone

The day my pad went mad, My Dog Sighs in the Dog House, Southsea

Next up, the very wonderful Flora Borsi, from Hungary. She's been to Austria this week picking up awards for her amazing photos.  At the same time her art has been displayed in Shanghai as part of a celebration of Hungarian culture.  Photos below are from her FB page.  Find out more at www.floraborsi.com. 

Jimmy Cauty was once half of the KLF, the K Foundation, The Justified Ancients of MuMu and all the rest with Big Bill Drummond.  For the past few years he's been working big time with small scale (1:87) figures having a riot, a riot of his own.  He has created a post apocalyptic world in miniature.

Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) Riot tour, Jimmy Cauty

picture from L-13

The exhibition is housed in a 40ft shipping container, travelling around the country, visiting 36 towns and cities that have riots in their story,  Currently in Stoke on Trent, I caught up with it a couple of weeks ago in Nottingham.

ADP Riot Tour, Nottingham

Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) Riot tour, Jimmy Cauty

To view Cauty's work there are peepholes strategically placed in the container.  

graffiti added by the Great British public

It is part funded by the Arts Council -

AS OF 16TH JUNE THE ADP RIOT TOUR HAS BEEN AWARDED £49,000 BY THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND IN SUPPORT OF WHAT THEY'VE DESCRIBED AS AN OUTSTANDING PROJECT.
So, as predicted we are now FUNDED BY THE STATE FOR THE STATE or FUNDED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE or maybe WASTING TAX PAYERS MONEY AT 36 HISTORIC RIOT SITES AROUND THE COUNTRY, or even: PROVIDING AN OUTSTANDING and CRITICALLY ENGAGING ARTWORK FOR FREE TO A DIVERSE RANGE OF COMMUNITIES ON A NATIONWIDE SCALE...

all pictures by The Corn Poppy unless otherwise stated