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BOS2010: Cao Guo-Qiang

Have you seen the cars? Hanging from the ceiling? What did you think? Not much, says Carrie Miller…

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BOS2010: Penny Siopis

Andrew Frost discovers a cache of paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art – and a few of them aren’t too bad…

BOS2010: Newell Harry

As Newell Harry asks, what’s the point of being king sh_t of turd island? Heaps, says Carrie Miller…

Thingamajig

Thingamajig

Reviews May 14, 2010

International affairs editor John Kelly reports from County Cork where flood waters conspired to delay the opening of Thingamajig – The secret life of objects

Innovators

Innovators

Art Life , Reviews May 07, 2010

Our Melbourne Affairs Editor Din Heagney reckons Linden is one of the few decent inner southside galleries left in Melbourne these days. Inside he finds a range of astro-turf delights…

From Melbourne to Monaco via Princess Grace Boulevard

International affairs editor John Kelly travels between Monaco and Melbourne and discovers a world of strange equivalences…

Not exactly about cricket

From Mr. John Kelly… We arrive in Melbourne and stay with my parents in Sunshine. I pick up Mum’s Sun Herald and read that gangs of criminal foreigners are planning on invading Melbourne to wreak havoc during the Cup carnival.

Justine Varga’s Inside/Outside

From Ian Houston Shadwell… Justine Varga‘s first exhibition, 2005’s Placements featured surreal photographic vignettes created from pieces of string, toy animals and other odds and ends. The resulting images were exquisite, delicate, beautiful landscapes of an inner world that referenced

A Meander Into Wonder

From Isobel Johnston… The raven is a bird often seen as a portent of evil or a bad omen. In their absence or their presence there lies the unsettling suggestion that something evil follows. From the six ravens that legend

Letter From Nice

From John Kelly… It could be an advertisement for some super blue detergent, but the Baie des Anges on the Côte d’Azur is not chemically enhanced. The sea really is the colour of the cloudless sky. I feel summer bliss