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Strumpet and Co.

There are a lot of galleries out there, yet it never seems like there’s enough. We imagine that if you took all of Melbourne’s galleries and artist run spaces and moved them to Sydney, that would be about the right

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Some come to sit and think

Who’s Afraid of The Avant-Garde? That’s the name of a new four part series of installation/performances at the Performance Space during 2005. The title is an open question without an answer, but we can say, honestly, that we aren’t afraid

For Those About To Rock

Some desperate Art Life readers have been commenting and emailing us asking if we have again fallen sick? Or simply fallen asleep? The evidence for this, they suggest, is the drop off in the number of posts. The Art Life

Monsters of the Id

Round, see-through plastic records sitting on a shelf accompanied by an adjacent wall of framed drawings. Each drawing is of a record with various lines on them – some squiggly, others ovoid, still others circular. On the other side of

It’s new, it’s fresh, it’s…

The Art Life always likes keep a keen eye on happenings in Melbourne but it’s a long way from home. We can’t be everywhere at once, but we did make a special effort to get to the launch of Melbourne’s

The Phenomenon Turned Nostalgic

Pardon our French, but fuck a fucking duck! In a story on page 3 of Tuesday’s Sydney Morning Herald, we read the startling news of a whole new creative medium, something called “Super 8”. Apparently young people are making films

Lists And Damn Lists

Everybody loves a list and the more controversial the better. When we introduced our polls last year, the hits site quadrupled in three days. Of course, we know that people were getting their friends to come in and vote while

A Life In Oil

Over the coming months The Art Life will be talking with some of Australia’s most respected artists – we’ll be chatting with the celebrated conceptual painter L.J. Smith as he approaches a late-mid-career retrospective at The Art Gallery of Contemporary

We’ll Be Right Back, After This…

Due to a sudden and inexplicable illness, The Art Life returns this Thursday.