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Awfully Wonderful

Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art explores a spectrum of seductive, terrifying and fantastic potential futures. The exhibition presents new and existing work by eleven Australian artists including time machines, handmade robots, meteorological instruments, interplanetary communication devices, a mars

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Generation Chill

Comrade-in-blog Iconophilia brought to our attention an unofficial kind of war art… Unofficial war art? War zone street art? Even if you’re familiar with the work of recent official Australian war artists (for example, in war zones, Charles Green and

Artists only thanks

While debate rages in the media over the practice of people choosing to identify with a participial ethnic group and/or oppressed culture, Carrie Miller uncovers another troubling trend – unqualified individuals claiming to be artists…

New Work Friday #76

When most people think of ceramic objects, small, detailed vases and figurines come to mind. So for Stephen Cramb conceiving a falling gangly 6 foot ceramic figure ensured he produced the inverse of this ideal.

Gregory Crewdson to talk – and talk…

The hugely influential American photographer Gregory Crewdson is visiting Sydney this month and he’ll be giving two lectures – one at Sydney University presented by the Power Institute, and the second at the University of Technology.

I’m with you, stupid

Carrie Miller offers some advice to easily offended artists – get over it and make some money from collectors who love their art… The documentary on the recently opened Museum of Old & New Art that screened this week on

New Work Friday #75

Something is about to happen – potential is immanent. These new paintings by Marisa Purcell present conditions that are all pervasive – atmospheric, changeable images that aren’t always noticed – and they are about to emerge.

Fancy a Vostok?

Yours to own, a piece of space technology, slightly worn, many miles on the clock…

Postcard from Berlin

Din Heagney’s latest postcard arrived in the mail. He’s in Berlin, in a melancholy mood…

Drawn to abstraction

As the flood waters begin to recede into memory, business resumes at Brisbane’s commercial galleries, writes Sharne Wolff