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From Ian Houston… Adrian Piper, Black Box/ White Box The idea of the political in art is at once inevitable and tedious. The risk of proselytizing, the banal, the tautological and the difficulties of a cynical audience familiar with many
From Bonny Dot Cassidy & Rory Dufficy From: bonnidot@hotmail.comTo: rory_dufficy@hotmail.comSubject: Ai Wei Wei – what did you think? Dear R, Ai Wei Wei’s Under Construction comprises just four outstanding works, to which the rest of the survey offers almost no
From Isobel Johnston… The 16th Biennale of Sydney opens in a just a few weeks ’Revolutions – forms that turn’, connecting past and present work. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will bring together ‘constellations’ and encounters rather than juxtapositions- in clusters of artists.
From Rory Dufficy… Bill Viola’s work has always seemed suffused with a reflection of meaning – the outlines of something profound are visible, and the gestures and motions and surfaces seem to reveal something, but too often end up as
From Bonny Dot Cassidy… There are are exhibitions that come along only once in a curator’s career; and I imagine a survey of Fiona Hall’s work to be one of those — the chance to interact with a living, local
From Isobel Johnston… Things I don’t remember is the title of a song by Ugly Casanova aka Modest Mouse – who happened to be in town at around the same time as the opening of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s
Never doubt the sincerity of an artist. Even when it seems like it might be a joke, a pisstake, some sort of ironic double play [indeed, especially when it seems so] there is nearly always a serious intent behind the
From Bonny Dot Cassidy The last six months have blessed Sydney with exhilarating exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous art including the recently (and too promptly) ended Kitty Kantilla retrospective, plus two current shows: the Lockhart women’s group mounting at Hogarth Galleries,
From Eve Sullivan… LIFE IS A LAUGH, the poster says. So oddly quaint, in its restraint, spelled out in faded red block capital letters. Propped up at one end of the station platform amidst scaffolding and construction materials, a stack
From Ian Houston Mister Darren Sylvester‘s exhibition of photographic prints, painting and sculpture at Sullivan & Strumpf [until Saturday] is a beguiling and seductive collection of art poised, like a plastic surgeon’s scalpel, over the skin of contemporary life. This