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Ten Essentials: Art Vandals

Din Heagney picks a few choice examples of artworks that have incited the ire of art fanatics…

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Art Apps Update

Art Apps Update

Apps May 13, 2011

Andrew Frost test drives two free art apps…

New Work Friday #79

“These works evolved from a series of drawings the artist made of dingos at Taronga Zoo in 2001.”

When Good Curators Go Bad

If you stop creating do you stop being an artist? Are years of study wasted if you don’t go on to have an arts practice? Can you be an artist and curator at the same time?

1+1=1

1+1=1

Exhibitions May 11, 2011

In her solo exhibition, 1+1=1, Tracey Clement presents embroideries, digital prints and low-tech animations which are a kind of long distance collaboration with her parents.

Spectacle/Obstacle

Meredith Birrell takes a peek behind the curtain…

Mad Bastards

Brendan Fletcher debut feature film Mad Bastards has just opened in cinemas. He tells The Art Life’s Andrew Frost of the projects long gestation, the art of directing non-actors and the seven year journey to bring the story to the screen… And learn how to win one of four double passes to the film.

Running the Gauntlet

Running the Gauntlet [Paper Cut]

New Work Friday #78

Whispers of ghost stories permeate these spaces, manifesting in Kath Fries’ installations as a sense of tension, balancing on an edge between the immediate present and unfurling possibilities of the unseen

Ten Essentials: Drinking

Carrie Miller raises a wrist to the greatest exponents – fictional and real – of the art of drinking…