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“Today marks the first day of National Art Hate Week. A seething critical mass that sprung, initially at least, from the hands of Billy Childish, prolific painter, poet, punk and self-proclaimed hero of the British art resistance movement. Childish was
“Hi – Thought I’d share some hilarious comments about our current show from some people who’ll probably never have the benefit of seeing it in the flesh. They were reacting to Raquel Welch‘s I HATE YOUR GUTS!, a series based
Thursday June 4 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and the subsequent massacre of an unknown number of students. Perhaps the most famous image to become associated with the event is the single frame of photojournalism
“I am writing to you about an event that I thought the art life might be interested in posting about. On Saturday 28th March at the Dendy Opera Quay in Sydney, I went to see the film ‘I
Guy Maestri‘Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu WINNER OF THE 2009 WYNNE PRIZE Lionel Bawden The amorphous ones (the vast colony of our being) The Trustees’ Watercolour Prize Graham Fransella Shore line WINNER OF THE 2009 SULMAN PRIZE Ivan Durrant ANZAC Match, M.C.G.
In its current incarnation, Christoph Benda’s first novel requires that you a) be able to read German and b) have an internet connection. Benda’s work, Senghor on the Rocks, is a geo-referenced electronic novel in which the text is combined
From Viscopy’s Michael Kieghery… Dear Art Lifers, As you are probably aware, the Federal government is committed to introducing legislation in Parliament to establish an Artists’ Resale Royalty Scheme very soon. This is terrific news about an issue that artists
Kulik images impounded as ‘pornography’ at Fiac Russian gallery directors handcuffed by police, but case dropped. PARIS. French police seized a number of works by the Ukrainian performance artist Oleg Kulik on the stand of Moscow’s XL gallery during Fiac
“At the end of last year, Foster and Partners celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that period, Norman Foster‘s architectural practice has grown to be the fifth largest in the world and has designed buildings of pretty much every type. However,
“Australia’s peak visual arts body has slammed suggestions from a child welfare activist that a vetting system be established to determine artists’ bona fides in working with children. “At a Sydney censorship forum on Thursday – organised to discuss the