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Plot: Finn [Ethan Hawke] is a dreamy kid who goes for long walks on the beach and keeps a sketchbook full of faux-naif drawings of fish. Finn yearns for the emotionally unavailable Estella [Gwyneth Paltrow] who lives with her aunt
Corporate blogs – who needs ‘em? The ABC, apparently, and who would have ever thought that they have their own arts blog puningly titled Articulate? Like Fairfax [the publishing wing of the ABC], a blog or two adds a frisson
We like our art from Germany, inserted rectally and served with a plate of milk! I Like My Art Translated from German 32% [16] In suppository form 22% [11] Served with a plate of milk 18% [9] Dipped in honey
Imagine someone asked you to judge the Dobell Prize for Drawing. You sit in a chair with a cup of tea and, as the assistants bring the entries past one by one, it quickly becomes apparent that some artists know
Nothing is forever and we all know it, but knowing that fact doesn’t make the passing of a much loved artist-run gallery any easier. Gallery Wren will be closing its doors on Wednesday September 7th after four years under the
The vote is in, and readers are adamant – The Australian Centre for Photography’s exhihibtions only lack an olfactory presence to make the black clad gallery the synaesthetic experience du jour. EXHIBITIONS at the ACP Sadly lack smell-o-vision 26% 18
The thing that’s so great about contemporary art is that it’s so funny. If you’re a producer of a weekly current affairs show and it’s a slow news week there’s always the option of covering the latest outrageous exhibition, kooky
Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou are two UK artists. Bored with painting and more interested in science, they applied for some grant money to do experiments towards creating a stable force field. Incredibly, they were given the cash and, infused
Andre Breton had seen a few things. People blown up, gassed, maimed, gone insane. World War One and all that. It was bad. One night he came up with the idea for sur realism, extra realism, the lo fi beginnings
In the past, there were no VCRs, no mobile phones and computers were programed with pieces of cardboard. Information was centralised, access was analogue, low tech, on foot. The future lived only inside our heads. It was something to imagine,