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Following on from her exhibition preview Isobel Johnston returns with this report on the Biennale, for real… This year’s Biennale of Sydney is a demonstrably rigorous curated exhibition involving 180 artists over several physical locations and online. Not that didacticism
Cloud Canyons is probably one of David Medalla’s most well known works, a seminal piece in kinetic sculpture…
Too much history? Not enough? Rory Dufficy contemplates the inclusion – and exclusion – of particular historical works in this year’s Biennale of Sydney… The much criticized decision by Biennale curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to include works from the backrooms of
The Art Life‘s special on The Biennale of Sydney goes to air on ABC1 on Tuesday July 22 at 10pm. We feature a number of interviews but due to the constraints of the documentary’s 27 minute duration those conversations have
From Ian Houston… Adrian Piper, Black Box/ White Box The idea of the political in art is at once inevitable and tedious. The risk of proselytizing, the banal, the tautological and the difficulties of a cynical audience familiar with many
In the interests of the dignifying debate on art and censorship, The Art Life today has taken the bold step of publishing on its blog a photo of a ball of dividing cells from the moment a zygote implanted itself
Bruce Conner, Mongoloid, from The Truth About De-Evolution, 1977. Bruce Conner, one of the most influential found footage film collage artists, has died aged 74. From The San Francisco Chronicle: “Despite an enviably long record of gallery and museum exhibitions,
Just when you thought it was all over, Art Monthly puts out a theme issue on art and censorship and uses an image of a naked 6 year old girl by Polixeni Papapetrou on its cover… In the latest row
“At the end of last year, Foster and Partners celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that period, Norman Foster‘s architectural practice has grown to be the fifth largest in the world and has designed buildings of pretty much every type. However,
Brian Seee-we-lllllll…