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Hello, and welcome to The Art Life for 2005. Before we get into the art world and all its exciting news and exhibitions, we need to mention a few things. First off, the Art Life is a blog, an online

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Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying

Although we had expected to go to sleep over the Christmas-New Year’s break, we were troubled and couldn’t properly drift off. Those die hard artists who run Peloton actually kept the gallery operating between December 25 and now, even having

Happy New Year 1999!

So here we are back from our holidays and although we expected everything to be the same, it’s different. Except that the difference is that it’s more of the same. The year is 1999, John Howard is your Prime Minister,

In The Interests of Accuracy, "Most" Video Art Is Hateful

Sebastian Smee wrote to us in December with a few complaints. We run his email in full: “May I correct a couple of points? I never wrote “I hate video art.” I was so impressed with the various video components

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Uncategorized Jan 27, 2005

On the 30th of December we discovered the following brief but to-the-point comment attached to our review of the Year in Art exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery from November. “You are a fuckwit with no life.” Perhaps ruminating on

Ker-ching! Rosetzky $25,000 Richer!

The Art Gallery of NSW has just announced the winner of the Anne Landa Award. David Rosetzky is the happy camper who gets a cheque for $25,000 beating out stiff competition from favourites Shaun Gladwell and Guy Benfield. “David Rosetzky

We want to wake up…

It can’t be true, can it? John McDonald to take over from Peter Hill as the art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald? We’re taking the blue pill now…