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Even Bees Do It

There are many uses for honey – you can put it your tea, eat on toast, use it to dress wounds, pour it on a friend, or perhaps take the beeswax and mix it in with your oil paint. And

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Clown School

Clown School

Reviews Jul 21, 2004

Speaking of high school, as we were above, one of the threats the teachers used against us was that we’d be sent to Clown School if we misbehaved. But we wanted to go to Clown School – it was where

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

People often ask us about the decorations we wear on our official Art Life uniforms, festooned as they are with gold braid, highly decorated epaulettes, ceremonial lanyards and dazzling, shiny medals. The special gold eagle with oak leaf cluster on

Fruits Beginning With The Letter Q

Conceptualists eventually drop off. There’s nothing they can do about it, and it seems inevitable that they’ll drift away into teaching jobs or curating exhibitions or changing tack into undemanding, decorative painting.

Smells Like Victory

Dale Frank’s Modern Art for Sale…

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

Reviews Jun 11, 2004

What is that is so intoxicating about the image of the deserted city?

Photographer With Eye Shock

We mentioned Blender Gallery a few weeks ago. It’s a hire space, café and book shop that used to be Stills Gallery. It’s also a converted terrace with lots of nooks and crannies, doorways, doorframes and a hole in the

On Reason and Emotion

That’s the BIG THEME of the 2004 Biennale that the curator Isabel Carlos has thought up and applied evenly to all the art. According to the Sydney Morning Herald art critic Peter Hill, Carlos changed her mind halfway through curating

Biennale of Sydney Volume 1: Cake

There’s a lot of art in the Biennale. spread all over town in galleries, in parks and up trees – too much to get down in one go. So we’re going to follow the classic cake cutting procedure of plunging

Brown Booze

Brown Booze

Art Life , Reviews Jun 07, 2004

There’s something incredibly desperate in that frozen moment when you think taking a schooner glass home from the pub is a “good idea”. It’s not like we don’t have enough glasses at home and hell, if we want more beer