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You are feeling sleepy, very sleepy…

Apparently this is as good as it gets. Reading The Australian on the weekend we read a front page story by Matt Price that here in our sun burnt country “life doesn’t get any better.” Quoting from authoritative sources such

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Careful What You Wish For: A Year In The Art Life
“It’s all about me!”

In our recent expedition around every gallery listed in Art Almanac for the month of December, we made a terrible discovery. There is a lot of really bad art out there. We were genuinely and truly shocked. We thought that

The Old Yule Log

We’ll be back in late January (possibly February, depending on the weather) fully refreshed and revitalized for the year ahead. Merry Xmas to all our readers.

Who should win the Anne Landa Award?

Guy Benfield 40% 23 David Rosetzky 17% 10 Shaun Gladwell 12% 7 Peter Hennessey 12% 7 Craig Walsh 10% 6 Van Sowerwine 9% 5 total votes: 58

Tell Me What You Really Think

We’re confused. Isn’t the Anne Landa Award meant to be special? Back in September when the Art Gallery of NSW announced the prize we were lead to believe that the exhibition would feature new work by the Young Turks of

Part 7: "This is the end, my friend…"

Friday was probably the worst possible day to finish our project. Hot, humid and raining, we seemed to only run into to people who were as hung over as we were, and that was very, very hungover. We looked at

Part 6: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

We’ve had to make some tough decisions in our quest to review everything. We looked at our list. We’ve eliminated from our schedule galleries with Xmas stock room shows: Tim Olsen Gallery has not one but two stock room shows

Part 5: Stinking Cesspool Of Human Misery

MLC Gallery is located all on its lonesome at 449 Harris Street in Ultimo. It’s a cold and dusty part of town, even in blazing sunshine, and the cars and trucks whip up storms of grit and clouds of newspapers.

Part 4: Joi de’vivre

Woollahra: town without pity. We had been dreading going there ever since we decided to visit every gallery in town and imagined it was going to be just terrible with its over priced cakes, jammed streets and the very real