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We are pretty proud of gazumping the mainstream media by a few days last week after an Art Life informant tipped us toCharles Merewether’s appointment as the director of the next Biennale of Sydney in 2006. Merewether is currently Senior

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Service Guarantees Citizenship!

People often ask us about the decorations we wear on our official Art Life uniforms, festooned as they are with gold braid, highly decorated epaulettes, ceremonial lanyards and dazzling, shiny medals. The special gold eagle with oak leaf cluster on

Culture Wars

The Australian Screen program – the program of films and videos by established artists – was organised by D-Lux and curated by Claude Gonzalez, a man later described at the screening of his documentary called Sydney At War in the

Life During Wartime

There is a theory that living The Art Life is like being at war – long periods of boredom followed by furious bursts of excitement. In the past week, John Opit’s missing Cezanne painting was found in a Gold Coast

Fantasy Guinea Pig?

Puff and Swallow at Phatspace is a Biennale parallel event – or more correctly, a series of events as a number of artists come and go, make changes to what the last lot did and generally make a mess in

Not Fake, Actually Real

We love the fake names that come attached to spam emails that try to get us to buy land in Florida, enlarge our penises or buy cheap Rx. We’ve been building a collection that includes: Moses Cervantes Cheyene Samuels Thad

Talk about, talk about, talk about…

A few weeks ago when Sophia Cunningham invited us to the Without Reason show at the UNSW College of Fine Arts, she told us that Felicity Fenner has a “relationship” with the college. She didn’t elaborate on what that relationship

Mailbag # 4: The East Is Red

We is Simon Barney.

Fruits Beginning With The Letter Q

Conceptualists eventually drop off. There’s nothing they can do about it, and it seems inevitable that they’ll drift away into teaching jobs or curating exhibitions or changing tack into undemanding, decorative painting.

Smells Like Victory

Dale Frank’s Modern Art for Sale…