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The streets of Paddington in the morning present a very different kind of reality to the one presented by the well-heeled suburb’s reputation. Oxford Street is cold and unfriendly and you wonder why you left your warm bed for bad
We walked down Elizabeth Street to Blender Gallery . Previously the location of Stills Gallery in the 80s and 90s, the former terrace house is now home to a gallery that has a ‘strong commitment’ to new and emerging talent.
Don’t ask the woman on the desk at the Australian Centre for Photography any questions. Don’t ask her, for instance, how the UNSW College of Fine Arts has become involved in the exhibition of Franco Zecchin, or in fact, what
We try to apply an even level of ignorance to everything we see. It’s like being consistent but it doesn’t demand as much effort. We had gone last week to see Dani Marti’s show at Sherman Galleries but we’d missed
Relationships are somewhat strained in Paddington. The University Of NSW College Of Fine Arts (motto “The Biggest Little Campus In The World!”) has been battling local residents to develop part of its Selwyn Street campus into what activists are describing
Not a lot of people know that the Ivan Dougherty Gallery is named after the man who invented the semi colon in exhibition titles. It’s that kind of gallery – the exhibitions are curated to the extent that some art
A couple of weeks back we gave Dominique Angeloro a hard time for rewriting press releases in the guise of journalism in the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Metro lift out. Sure, people like Victoria Hynes and Bruce James
Speaking of Sam Smith, as we were, we have to say that we admire his gumption. He wrote to us an invited us down to Room 35, the hire space gallery at Gitte Weise Gallery, to see his show Set
We were saddened to hear that Australian film director Tim Burstall had suffered a stroke while watching a retrospective of his films in Melbourne. He died the next morning after being rushed to hospital, age 76. A significant figure in
A few weeks back we ran a story about the complaints of conservative Federal MP’s who think that the Parliament House art collection is a disgrace. The ABC’s 7.30 Report ran a report on it on Thursday the 8th of