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The Dead Zone

What is that is so intoxicating about the image of the deserted city?

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Photographer With Eye Shock

We mentioned Blender Gallery a few weeks ago. It’s a hire space, café and book shop that used to be Stills Gallery. It’s also a converted terrace with lots of nooks and crannies, doorways, doorframes and a hole in the

Web Dings #3

Web Dings #3

Weblife Jun 11, 2004

The way blogs work is that if someone notices you, you should notice them back. The Art Life celebrated a big week last week, sailing well over 460 hits in two days and we have in large part to thank

On Reason and Emotion

That’s the BIG THEME of the 2004 Biennale that the curator Isabel Carlos has thought up and applied evenly to all the art. According to the Sydney Morning Herald art critic Peter Hill, Carlos changed her mind halfway through curating

Biennale of Sydney Volume 1: Cake

There’s a lot of art in the Biennale. spread all over town in galleries, in parks and up trees – too much to get down in one go. So we’re going to follow the classic cake cutting procedure of plunging

Brown Booze

Brown Booze

Art Life , Reviews Jun 07, 2004

There’s something incredibly desperate in that frozen moment when you think taking a schooner glass home from the pub is a “good idea”. It’s not like we don’t have enough glasses at home and hell, if we want more beer

Biennale Party: Worrying Developments

It’s been a pretty hectic couple of days as The Art Life ascends the social ladder. We never thought we’d live to see the day we’d be at an opening chatting with comedian Mikey Robbins and seafood chef bloke Rick

Interlace My Shoes

A Biennale parallel event on until July 3rd is the show on at Performance Space called Interlace featuring installations by man-of-the-moment Shaun Gladwell, Emil Goh and Kate Murphy. Curated by Blair French, the show is also part of the gallery’s

How Many Artists Can You get In A Room?

Another exhibition that’s getting in on the act of the Biennale excitement is a show at The UNSW College of Fine Arts called Without Reason that’s been curated “in response to” the theme of the Biennale . The COFA show

Put One In The Brain

Sometimes it feels like artists are doing everything in their power to stop you seeing their art. We went to First Draft Gallery expecting to get in since it was already 1.20pm (gallery hours being 1pm-6pm) and guess what? The