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Rendezvous in Wrongtown

Rendezvous in Wrongtown is the perfect excuse to indulge in the wrong side of art on the wrong side of town…

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Frida David Lives Here

Continuing what she started in 2009, when she won Best Visual Art at Wellington’s prestigious Fringe Festival Awards for This is Where I Live, Fleur Wickes takes another step in exploring how the spaces that we create reflect who really are – the way our private spaces become our portrait in 3D

Tweets of the Week from 2010-07-11

Tweets of the Week from 2010-07-11

Uncategorized Jul 11, 2010

“Do you know what it means when I send you a love letter straight from my heart?”

Bindi Cole Sistagirls

Senior Melbourne social affairs editor Din Heagney explains that there are few places more remote than the Tiwi Islands for a transgender woman to cut loose in the 21st century..

Rabbit in a wheelchair

Please welcome the debut of The Art Life’s newest contributor Isobel Philip who takes up the role of Sydney Editor-at-Large as she reports on the spookiness of Polixeni Papapetrou’s recent show…

Futon world

Futon world

Art Life , Op-ed Jul 09, 2010

It may be a small world after all but within it there are a multitude of smaller ones that you can visit on the net and in person – most concerned with banal goods and services such as hardware and soft furnishings. Carrie Miller looks for the art world…

The Art Life walking tour part four

There’s a lot of weird stuff in Hyde Park – and some of its art. In part four of his walking tour of Sydney’s hidden art, Ian Shadwell comes face to face with some imposing stone figures…

Matthew Barney: No Restraint

The perhaps accidental revelation of Matthew Barney: No Restraint is that the artist comes off as a bit of a dunce…

New Work Friday #50

Cherish explores the potential for simple decorative consumer objects to act as powerful metaphors for thoughts and emotional states…

This just in – July 8th, 2010

“Ghost towns are fascinating places because they allow visitors to transport themselves, in their imaginations, to past times and places. Ghost roads are not as well known. But they do something similar to their more marketable counterparts, and, in a