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“Many artists have followers. Mark Ryden has disciples. Three years ago, the L.A. painter of “low brow” fame inspired an opening-night crowd at the Michael Kohn Gallery to dress up like trees. Thursday night, his most ardent fans showed up
We’ve been planning this move for years and finally we’re home – welcome to the new look Art Life. Our five year mission continues into its seventh year – to seek out intelligent life in the art world, report on it, embrace it, and then love it like a little kitten…
Regardless of where you stood on the issue of Sam Leach’s winning entry in this year’s Wynne Prize, it appears the controversy has sparked some in the art world into action on the issue of copying in art. The premier example of this is the Australia Council’s recent announcement that they will be drawing up formal guidelines in relation to the matter.
In a fit of sanity, the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW met on Tuesday May 27th to discuss the awarding of this year’s Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting to Sydney artist Sam Leach. Their decision was to uphold the award.
Marcus Westbury’s Renew Newcastle has been one of the most successful grass-roots arts project of recent years turning dozens of unused shop fronts and other empty spaces into galleries and creative spaces. With new versions of the project launched in Adelaide and Townsville, the Newcastle project recently recorded its 50th launch of a new initiative.
SafARI 2010, the ‘unofficial’ fringe exhibition to the Biennale of Sydney, will exhibit the work of
14 emerging artists across four of Sydney’s Artist-Run Initiative (ARI) galleries during the opening weeks of the Biennale of Sydney this May.
Heil Spirits was raised on a steady diet of Heavy Metal, Punk Rock, Comic books, Sci/Fi and Horror Films.
“Hey, Richard Wagner — why so serious? The 19th century German composer of “The Ring of the Nibelung” wasn’t known for his sense of humor. His long, serious operas barely crack a smile while tackling such singularly un-funny subjects as
Not an art story per se, but how many news items begin “Nightmarish alien fish discovered”??!! http://tinyurl.com/2eyz22p # Owwie! Man drives nail thru foot in name of art, seems quite calm afterward: http://tinyurl.com/248ql9q # Mellow tones: Pierre Boulez turns 85:
galleryeight is proud to present Phantom Detection, a new photographic exhibition by Sydney based artist Valentina Schulte. Please join us for drinks with the photographer Friday 30th April from 6pm. Phantom Detection is part of the official Head On photo