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Ian Houston writes from London… The work, entitled Shibboleth 2007, runs the full 167 metres of the cavernous hall on London’s South Bank. It begins as a crack then widens and deepens as it snakes across the room. Colombian artist
Where have we been? Unfortunately we can’t tell you. Let’s just say that we have been working to make the world a better place, free from sadness and want, indeed, a broadband nation dedicated to education and the advancement of,
They come in with requests. They want to use the photocopier for free. Some of them want blank paper to write down their filthy secrets. Most of ‘em just sleep in the reading room. Yes, it’s your local library and
Shaun Gladwell’s pants: Or how I learned to love Pataphysical Man A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky at Bondi Beach is the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia. The artwork, titled
The eternal question – where are we? We’re in Brisbane to talk to Queensland University of Technology students about careers in art writing. It’s raining and its cold and the people in the big mall in the centre of town
Curiosity drove The Art Life to the National Museum of Australia. How has it weathered the storm of the history wars? Did it survive the intense criticism of its so-called “black armband” view of Australian history and which led to
Flags fluttered along Macquarie Street down to the Opera House, the brightly coloured banners read like a who’s who of contemporary art, Warhol, Freud, Sherman etc. They were also the names of artists whose works belong to the UBS collection
Who ever said ideas had to be subtle? If you want cut through, why even bother with artistic ambiguity? Just say what you have to say and off you go. This seems to be Joan Fontecuberta’s concept for his show
The end must have really been something to see. Right on the edge of real radical political change, the period from ‘67 to ‘72 was a period of world wide dissent and ferment. Paris, sure, beneath the streets the beach
The recent exhibition of new work by Halinka Orszulok and Rachel Scott at MOP was shit hot. While not curated as a joint show, these concurrent exhibitions both utilised suburbia as a literal and metaphorical site for investigating what is