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To: Letters, The Sydney Morning Herald; Letters, The Australian; Letters, The Daily Telegraph; Philip Adams; The Art Life: Bring back Young Talent Time some say: Well they brought back Hey Hey It’s Saturday. So why not! I just think it’s
From Ian Houston Shadwell… Justine Varga‘s first exhibition, 2005’s Placements featured surreal photographic vignettes created from pieces of string, toy animals and other odds and ends. The resulting images were exquisite, delicate, beautiful landscapes of an inner world that referenced
PMurphy, Insides. Got new work you’d like to share? Send JPEGs no larger than 300k each to theartlife at hot mail dot com.
“Over the 100-year history of modern neuroscience, the way we think about the brain has evolved with the sophistication of the techniques available to study it. Improvements in microscope design and manufacture, together with the development of cell-staining techniques, afforded
“After just 20 minutes in a helicopter above the Manhattan skyline, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire was ready to re-create a city that took hundreds of years to build. Wiltshire is drawing a 20-foot panoramic view of New York – all
Barney Rubble asks: I’m thinking of entering an art competition, should I enter? The competition asks that I send a CV and/or an artist’s statement with my entry – is it wise to do so? Dear Barney: If the art
Sylvania Waters is one of those select few television programs that became a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It had an impact more significant than anything that can be simply conferred via hype, clever advertising or sensational content. It is well
Bernie Slater, Word Situations 2, 2009. Colour photocopy on 1971 Mike Parr artwork Bernie Slater, Word Situations 2, 2009. Detail. Bernie Slater, Word Situations 2, 2009. Detail. “This work was created for Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s annual members’ show, where
“Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new—an acolyte who’d traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel—she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history’s