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Just who is the author of the doco Exit Through The Gift Shop wonders Michael Hutak. And does it really matter?
Believe the hype: Animal Kingdom is one of the best Australian films of the decade writes Ian Shadwell
Louise Bourgeois was far from “nice” but this doco is revealing portrait of an artist who refused to follow any path but her own…
Painters Painting is a thoughtful, sometimes amusing history of the New York art scene from the 1940s until the 1970s, writes Andrew Frost.
The Art Life’s editor Andrew Frost was invited to take part in a PechaKucha nite hosted by Super Deluxe at Artspace. With a brief that stated “talk about anything you like” Frost spoke on the work of author Philip K. Dick and the recurring themes that spread from his novels, into Hollywood movies, and then into mainstream culture…
Anselm Kiefer left his native Germany for Barjac in the south of France where he devised an extraordinary artistic living-space: an atelier, an installation complex, an entire created landscape
What’s that sound? Ian Houston Shadwell discusses one of the iconic film compositions of the late 20th century…
Artist and musician Simon Hunt publishes one of the best music blogs around – Never Enough Rhodes – writing on jazz, obscure funk oddities and neglected gems of hybridised musical madness. One such forgotten masterpiece is the work of Australian jazz composer John Sangster whose Australia and All That Jazz mixes lite soundtrack – with field recordings. Here hunt explains the background to Sangster’s career and the strange birth of the album…
Punning Headline Here [Mention Sale Price eg: “Art record: Nude Picasso fetches $117m”]. The sale of [name of artist]’s [name of art work] for a [staggering/incredible/record] [sale price] at [name of auction house] on [date] has defied recent stock market
In the first in a series of posts on music for film Ian Houston Shadwell traces the birth of Miles Davis’s groundbreaking composition for Louis Malle’s classic “Ascenseur pour l’Echafaud”…