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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

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.

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.

“Damien Hirst and Georg Baselitz have withdrawn from a planned exhibition, provisionally titled “Strange Friends”, at the Albertina museum in Vienna.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

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.