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The Art Life Poll

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Vote Early, Vote Often

They say that if you include a poll on your web page you can increase your web traffic- and man, are they ever right! When we launched our first poll on Monday we had no idea how many hits we’d

Francis Baker-Smith, We Hardly Knew Ye

Francis Baker-Smith is closing. Then it’s reopening on November 3 upstairs from its present location under the name Gallery Wren (which is what it was called when the current management team took over from Rubyayre Gallery a couple of years

Sanity Clause

Art that asks the hapless viewer to make a decision about the motivations of the artist is starting to wear us out. We were looking at John Spiteri’s new show at Kaliman Gallery and all we could think was, please,

Oh Baby

Oh Baby

Uncategorized Sep 29, 2004

Babies are like tradesmen – they do all their noisiest and most important work first thing in the morning. By 10am it has all gone quiet leaving parents reeling around, sleep deprived, smelling of spew and wondering where their lives

Sydney’s Ten Most Influential Art People

On Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story called Arts Stars that purported to expose the high placed taste makers in Sydney’s arts scene. We’re not sure if the SMH had really done their homework because their list comprised

“The Summer Wind, Came Blowin’ In…”

In Wollongong people gradually fall from the sky. A little at first, then a lot. We were standing on the grass, eating our fish and chips, looking up at people parachuting down towards us, and we felt ourselves being drawn

Artists Who Do “Projects”

In the 1980s Post Modernism arrived in the art world with a cool rush. Finally there was a salvation from the oppressive expressionism of Australian painting and the absurdly over prescribed dictatorship of the conceptualists. Post Modernism was a third

An Elephant Is A Horse

We had a conversation with Ugo Rondinone last year while he was having his show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He had done some circular paintings as well as a video of Bader-Meinhof type people walking around and another

An Elephant Is A Horse

We had a conversation with Ugo Rondinone last year while he was having his show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He had done some circular paintings as well as a video of Bader-Meinhof type people walking around and another