Artbollocks – Longrider

It Just Goes to Show…

August 13, 2018 Longrider 1

Well, a fool and his money and all that. A clothing company has created double back shorts that look like you are wearing two pairs […]

So Who Pays?

December 29, 2017 Longrider 12

Another example of ghastly graffiti that the avant-garde seem to think is “art”. A four-storey painting of a penis that piqued the curiosity of New […]

Art?

October 18, 2017 Longrider 15

Apparently it’s too pornographic for the Louvre. The Pompidou Centre in Paris will display a sexually explicit sculpture after it was deemed too risqué for the […]

Fuck Off!

June 4, 2017 Longrider 1

Wanksy. The website says that the artwork ‘is completely free’ for voters in the Bristol North West, Bristol West, North Somerset, Thornbury, Kingswood and Filton […]

The Parody Event Horizon

October 13, 2014 Longrider 9

Sometimes life is so surreal it is difficult to take it seriously. I mean, seriously. A Banksy mural has been vandalised with a spray-painted penis […]

Meh

August 20, 2013 Longrider 10

This is supposed to be funny. The line that won Dave’s Funniest Joke of The Fringe ran: “I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing […]

In Which I agree With Catherine Bennett

October 21, 2012 Longrider 8

When you have an attention-seeking artist and an ambitious town, you end up with this monstrosity. Everything Damien Hirst has produced has been a monstrosity. […]

Is it Art?

November 22, 2011 Longrider 5

RAB draws my attention to the latest artbollocks. Graffiti by Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten may be of greater significance than the discovery of early […]

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