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Danielle Freakley‘s work for the recently completed Next Wave Festival was a project called Dear Art Don’t Touch Me. Visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria could hire iPods and take a walk through the galleries to hear wild and
No charge over Henson’s naked kid photos “Police will not prosecute artist Bill Henson over his photographs of naked teenagers which were declared “mild and justified” by Australia’s Classification Board. “NSW police previously said it was “likely” the artist would
Excerpt from Pola X, dir. Leos Carax, 1999. Music by Scott Walker. From YouTube.
Photos based on children’s drawings. Fishki.net Billboard Liberation Front John Beinart’s Crustaceous Toddlerpede.
“Police have asked prosecutors to decide whether child pornography charges should be laid against celebrated photographer Bill Henson and a leading Sydney gallery that wanted to show his work. “One week after more than 20 Henson photographs were seized from
It’s a week since the Bill Henson controversy kicked off. With no real developments and with the police yet to lay any charges against Henson we have reached an impasse. Indeed, the same arguments have been going back and forth
Yesterday: The controversy over an exhibition of photographs of naked teens has spread to Albury, with another gallery taking down works by Bill Henson. Albury Regional Art Gallery has removed photographs of naked adolescents from its display. Bill Henson photos
Law Society backs nude child pics artist“The Law Society of NSW has backed embattled artist Bill Henson, who could face charges after police seized his latest gallery images which feature nude children. Society president Hugh Macken said he could not
Update: Bill Henson to be charged “NSW police have seized 20 of 41 photographs from the exhibition with the intention of launching criminal proceedings under the Child Protection Act. “Police say charges will be laid under both the NSW and
From Isobel Johnston… The 16th Biennale of Sydney opens in a just a few weeks ’Revolutions – forms that turn’, connecting past and present work. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will bring together ‘constellations’ and encounters rather than juxtapositions- in clusters of artists.