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Todd McMillan, swim 4 (from the series ague), 2009 C type photograph, 131.67 x 87.78cm Courtesy GrantPirrie. A new exhibition by young artist Todd McMillan opens at GrantPirrie next week. The show is notable for a very special reason –
Jaye Early, Having A Bad Day, 2009. “Primarily my work is autobiographical: Whether navigating hesitant paths of fragility and fear associated in the psychological surrender present in various sexual/private/ public contracts, or the anxieties surrounding unwavering experiences of lonesomeness, and
“As a public experiment, artist Julia Burns (alias: ‘rose_burns’) decided to blog on twitter in full view of the lunchtime crowd in Martin Place, Sydney, for one hour. She sat on her living room couch, wearing ugg boots and a
“Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s activism has finally provoked the Chinese authorities to act against him. His studio is being staked out by plainclothes police, and last month the artist’s popular blog on Sina.com was deleted, as well as his
“Today marks the first day of National Art Hate Week. A seething critical mass that sprung, initially at least, from the hands of Billy Childish, prolific painter, poet, punk and self-proclaimed hero of the British art resistance movement. Childish was
Hobart Hughes, Bunny man angers deer 1. “I have always been interested in forms of consciousness, how they can be triggered and how they rupture or rapture. A lot of the early film work was the vision that a consciousness
“Homer (not the slouch of Springfield heralding the end of Western civilization, but the blind, semi-mythical poet at the dawn of Greek history) was seen by Strabo and the Stoics as the father of geography. His overarching geographic concept was
“Hi – Thought I’d share some hilarious comments about our current show from some people who’ll probably never have the benefit of seeing it in the flesh. They were reacting to Raquel Welch‘s I HATE YOUR GUTS!, a series based
Uwe Henneken, Europa endlich, 2009. Oil on canvas, 102×76.5cm. “Uwe Henneken’s work reflects upon the human condition; the search for meaning and fear of the unknown. When the work includes a figure it is placed in the painting as an
“Shortly after the liberation of Holland, Han van Meegeren, a painter and art dealer living in Amsterdam was arrested for collaboration with the Third Reich. He was accused among other things of having sold a Vermeer to Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring