Michael Clark: CBE

Oh, this is getting silly now.

First Grayson Perry gets a CBE, now her!

Dear the Queen,

Seeing as you is clearly giving these away to any old bonkers queen, I am willing to denounce my republican principles and accept one.

DM me, bitch.
x

PS John Barrowman has been awarded an MBE - presumably for services to show tunes.

FT Weekend: Another Week, Another Gay

“The body can be political, too. And I think the way people chose to dress was, for a lot of us, the only way we could express how we felt, and that seemed a very important part of what I was doing. Because it’s a visual art. How could you deny that what people wear means something?"

Michael Clark is this week's almost obligatory fag in FT Weekend.

PS And there's some rather entertaining poovery in today's Guardian Review with Brian Sewell on What I See In The Mirror, and Terry Eagleton reviewing Morrisey's Autobiography - which I'm maintaining is a massive piss-take, and an example of Professor Eagleton's wonderfully Wildean wit.
(The photo of MC above is by Mozza's "friend", Jake Walters, coincidentally).
The Independent has a very long profile of "Strictly Come Dancing's Mr Nasty", Craig Revel Horwood - which I couldn't be bothered to read.

Newsnight: Michael Clark

There was a short film about Michael Clark on Newsnight last night.
"Angelic and demonic, classical and Punk, Aberdeen, Billy Elliot, garden gnomes, Mark E Smith, The Fall, drugs, blah blah blah..."

• Michael Clark Company New Work is at Tate Modern until Sunday.

Michael Clark: Come, Been & Gone

I spent much of this afternoon trying to find a copy of the poster for the new Michael Clark show I could steal.
I couldn't though.
Maybe a lot of other people had the same idea?