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Exhibitions May 10, 2010

Matthys Gerber’s Wild West

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Uncategorized May 09, 2010

Part 1 of “Tableaux Vivant TV” on Art Nation ABC1 5.30pm tonight – the Art Life/Christian Jankowski Biennale o’ Sydney Project. # Technoccult Dossiers: William S. Burroughs, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison http://bit.ly/aZ0NhO (via @disinfo) # Can’t wait to read this

Grafitti not art shock

But is it art?’ bleated Charles Purcell in cliched reference to the work of conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp. Actually, he was less open-minded than that, proclaiming, through the froth that was doubtless gathering at the corners of his mouth, it was not art.

Biennale fever begins here

Ladies and gentlemen, brace for impact – contemporary art approaching! It’s Biennale time and Sydney is again facing an onslaught of cryptic visions and avant-garde posturing, of modern art both brilliant and banal.

Project for total urbanisation

Glenn Walls: Projects for Total Urbanisation, Opening Wednesday 12th May 6 – 8pm

Strange friends to split

“Damien Hirst and Georg Baselitz have withdrawn from a planned exhibition, provisionally titled “Strange Friends”, at the Albertina museum in Vienna. The original concept, developed by director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, was to present a show of works by artists who

Never let ’em go: David Elliott on the 2010 Biennale of Sydney

The artistic director of this year’s Biennale of Sydney David Elliot has curated a show with a mouthful of a title – THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. Andrew Frost spoke to Elliott about the practicalities of mounting a large and ambitious show and found that the director’s aims are both humble and direct.

Devine loses her mojo

It’s got to be tough being a journalist when there’s no story to report. Last night’s opening at Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney of Bill Henson’s latest show has proven a disappointment for op-ed writers and lovers of salacious controversy

New Work Friday #41

Atomic Art is inspired by the mysterious and magical patterns of atoms as seen through modern microscopes