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Round, see-through plastic records sitting on a shelf accompanied by an adjacent wall of framed drawings. Each drawing is of a record with various lines on them – some squiggly, others ovoid, still others circular. On the other side of

The Art Life always likes keep a keen eye on happenings in Melbourne but it’s a long way from home. We can’t be everywhere at once, but we did make a special effort to get to the launch of Melbourne’s

Pardon our French, but fuck a fucking duck! In a story on page 3 of Tuesday’s Sydney Morning Herald, we read the startling news of a whole new creative medium, something called “Super 8”. Apparently young people are making films

Everybody loves a list and the more controversial the better. When we introduced our polls last year, the hits site quadrupled in three days. Of course, we know that people were getting their friends to come in and vote while

Over the coming months The Art Life will be talking with some of Australia’s most respected artists – we’ll be chatting with the celebrated conceptual painter L.J. Smith as he approaches a late-mid-career retrospective at The Art Gallery of Contemporary

The lift smells like urine and the walls are covered in spider webs of graffiti, splashes of paint and coarse messages. Above the lift buttons there’s an unofficial notice: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY- SUCK MY COCK. We hadn’t even made

Just down the road at First Draft Gallery is another Mardi Gras associated exhibition called Brutal (until March 6). Like Wild Boys, we were a little trepidatious walking in but as soon as we had a gander at the art,