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“Rhys Chatham is a guitarist-composer with an impeccable pedigree: He studied with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and hipster minimalist La Monte Young, played in Tony Conrad’s Dream Syndicate (other notable alumnus: John Cale), founded the music program at the
The Biennale of Sydney has put out an advance brochure that contains the two equations: art + beauty + empathy = power power – beauty – empathy = tyranny Anyone with a primary school understanding of mathematics knows that if
Documentary on Rider Spoke by Blast Theory, presented in Sydney 2009 as part of the British Council’s Creative Cities programe in East Asia. Can’t see the video? Click here to view.
“Money might be best described by Jean Baudrillard’s fabricated quotation from Ecclesiastes: ‘The simulacrum is true.’ In modern times, money’s material value is disconnected from its assumed value; it is basically nothing more than a promise. Rather than being backed
“Adrian Dannatt: Pharmacy, which was shown at the Cohen Gallery in New York in 1992, feels kind of religious. As a viewer, it’s like being inside one of the vitrine pieces. Damien Hirst: I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies,
New York Beat Movie (Downtown 81) – 1981: Rambling, amateurish and often incoherent, this film portrays the day-to-day routine of Jean-Michel Basquiat: artist and (sometime) musician, as he tries to survive amidst rappers, junkies, gangsters, strippers, models and uptown art-lovers.
Paula Garrard, Reverberate 1 & 2 (detail), Installation view. Oil on canvas, 130 x 160cm. “We are exposed to so many colours through the mass media bombardment of visual imagery and advertising that the connection between seeing and experience is
Man on the moon: artists exploring space, 21 July 2009: Celebrating 40 years since man first walked on moon, artworks inspired by lunar exploration. The Guardian.
“A clever child might argue that the unicorn could exist because it is no more absurd than the narwhal whale. The twisted tusk of the narwhal is what was supposed to grow from the head of the horse known as
“The young women were unusual for stopping. Most of the museum’s visitors passed through the gallery oblivious. “A few game tourists glanced vainly in guidebooks or hopefully at wall labels, as if learning that one or another of these sculptures