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The Sisyphean Loop

Useless becomes useful.

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Australia: Curatorial Apartheid and the Duty to Disappoint

John Kelly surveys the wash up of the Australia exhibition and finds, contrary to critical and popular opinion, the show is an unfortunately accurate history of Australian art…

Serve The People

Luise Guest visits White Rabbit and discovers how guest curator Edmund Capon has arranged the collection…

Another Time, Another Place: Joel Rea

Joel Rea describes himself as a Contemporary Surrealist Painter, but his work is also a twist on the aesthetics of the sublime in 18th century Romantic art.

A Pathway Through the Forest

Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost…

My Country: I Still Call Australia Home

Sharne Wolff plucks up her courage and offers a review of QAG/GOMA’s My Country: I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

Made in China, Australia

Departure, displacement, dislocation, diaspora: all of these disquieting states are evident in ‘Made in China, Australia’, writes Luise Guest

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu

Art Life , Reviews Jun 28, 2013

Mutu’s art “marries poetic symbolism with sociopolitical critique to explore issues of gender, race, war, colonialism, and, particularly, the exoticization of the black female body…”

A Journey Into Light

Todd Macmillan‘s work has long quoted Romantic painters and poets, but how does that actually work in the context of video and photography? And what does McMillan himself bring to the mix? Isobel Philip has an idea…

Framing the Big Picture

Isobel Philip takes in The Big Picture at Stills and finds magic in the pulsating lights…