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The Classicist

At King Street Gallery on Burton you have to always remind yourself that you are not on King Street, Newtown, but you are on Burton Street, Darlinghurst. Although the gallery started in Newtown on King Street, then opened up a

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Even Bees Do It

There are many uses for honey – you can put it your tea, eat on toast, use it to dress wounds, pour it on a friend, or perhaps take the beeswax and mix it in with your oil paint. And

Hurry, Offer Ends Soon

Peter Powditch‘s exhition closes today (Wednesday, August 11) at Ray Hughes Gallery, and that’s probably a good thing. We went along to Ray Hughes Gallery with an open mind and a desire to be seen to be fair, but we

Beats and Pieces

Arriving mysteriously in our snail mail box was a flyer for the semi-mythical unMagazine. Available in both print and PDF formats, unMagazine is a new publication that may just keep Mathieu Gallois quiet for awhile – an art magazine with

Not Up, But Sideways

As Martin Kippenberger might have said, there is no problem with art on Australian TV, we just buy their paint brushes. We have come to accept that the only things worth watching about art on the ABC are the odd

"Here are three chords, now form a band."

There’s nothing quite as pleasurable as walking into a show of painting that is exceptionally good. It feels like a horrible pressure has been lifted and we can see clearly, like the rain has gone… Such was the feeling when

Come one, come all

So the Australian Centre for Photography has been around for 30 years? Wow, we actually remembering it opening! Send flowers, send cakes, send presents… To celebrate they are having an exhibition called Zeitgeist that showcases a bunch of artist/photographers chosen

Value Adding

We have been looking for signs of intelligent life in the world of blogs ever since launched The Art Life itself into the virtual world. We’ve scanned links and sent out probes and although we’ve found a few interesting specimens

Value Adding 2

Speaking of the Sydney Art Seen Society, they too have a web site and it chronicles their efforts in demanding (in a polite way) set fees for artists included in every public gallery exhibition in the country, $500 for an