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Biennale Party: Worrying Developments

It’s been a pretty hectic couple of days as The Art Life ascends the social ladder. We never thought we’d live to see the day we’d be at an opening chatting with comedian Mikey Robbins and seafood chef bloke Rick

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Interlace My Shoes

A Biennale parallel event on until July 3rd is the show on at Performance Space called Interlace featuring installations by man-of-the-moment Shaun Gladwell, Emil Goh and Kate Murphy. Curated by Blair French, the show is also part of the gallery’s

How Many Artists Can You get In A Room?

Another exhibition that’s getting in on the act of the Biennale excitement is a show at The UNSW College of Fine Arts called Without Reason that’s been curated “in response to” the theme of the Biennale . The COFA show

Put One In The Brain

Sometimes it feels like artists are doing everything in their power to stop you seeing their art. We went to First Draft Gallery expecting to get in since it was already 1.20pm (gallery hours being 1pm-6pm) and guess what? The

Boutwell Draper, Boutwell Draper…

We hadn’t been over to Boutwell Draper in ages. There are two shows on there at the moment, one is by Paula Dawson and the other is by Geoffrey Bartlett, and let’s be honest from the start – they are

A Simple Idea Well Done

Next door to Boutwell Draper is GRANTPIRRIE and they have a show by Melbourne artist Patrick Pound. The show is called Soft- A Model Real World. Pound took close up pictures of images in newspapers, advertising supplements and real estate

There’s No There There

Galleries in art schools are like special labs where difficult ideas are examined and experimented with, often in hazardous conditions and without protective clothing. Whatever Happened To Minimalism? is a case in point, an exhibition at The Sydney College of

Balls

Balls

Art Life , Reviews May 27, 2004

Across the yard at SCA there’s a show on in two rooms by a bloke named Fassih Keiso. In Room One was a bunch of stuff – some photographs of Arabic children with Arabic text, a series of framed Arabic

Head, Man, Land

We went past a gallery on Liverpool Street just up the road from the super-swanky de de ce furniture shop. At least we thought it was a gallery – we couldn’t be sure because every other shop looks like a

Man, Face, Mask

We left Liverpool Street Gallery with a few regrets, but we vowed to put this badness behind us and get down to Gallery 4A to see the Wang Jianwei show Giant Steps. We didn’t know much about Jianwei, but we