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From Nobody

Shtty Rail, by Nobody, via YouTube. More of Nobody’s work can be seen on the Nobody Who channel. If you’re viewing this post via email, click here to see the video.

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Woof woof

Woof woof

Art Life Apr 21, 2008

A spam email campaign to save a dog that may or may not be in danger of dying for a work of art… Uncaring art bastards ignore dog suffering in preference for canapes. “Hi all, This is a very serious

All You Can Eat

All You Can Eat

Media Apr 18, 2008

Emile Zile‘s Video Smorgasboard 1999-2007 from YouTube. If you’re seeing this post via email, click here to view.. Are you an Australian artist with videos on YouTube? Let us know: theartlife[at]hotmail.com

Meow meow

Meow meow

Interviews Apr 09, 2008

For her latest exhibition Cash Brown has created a series of paintings based on Gustav Courbet‘s infamous Origin Of The World. On show until April 22 at Robin Gibson Gallery, this 142 year old image – and Brown’s treatment of

Oh no, not you again

Oh no, not you again

News Apr 08, 2008

“As an art-hungry child growing up on the wrong side of the world, I shall be forever grateful to a man called Albert Felton who, when he succumbed to prostate cancer in Melbourne in 1904, left his entire fortune to

Blending In

Blending In

Art Life , Reviews Apr 07, 2008

From Isobel Johnston… Things I don’t remember is the title of a song by Ugly Casanova aka Modest Mouse – who happened to be in town at around the same time as the opening of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s

Hey Mr DJ!

Hey Mr DJ!

Music Apr 03, 2008

Christian Marclay, Mini-Doc, from YouTube. If you’re viewing this post via email, click here to watch the video.

X00 Multiples

X00 Multiples

Art Life Mar 29, 2008

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, Paths are made by walking. “In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, Yamashita and Kobayashi kept running in a park for 5 days. In the fast-forward movie compiled from digital photographs

A Metaphor For Us All

From Brian Johns Opening at the Wilson Street Gallery on 29 March is The Ship of Fools by Newtown identity and artist of renown Bill Brown. Currently a lecturer at the National Art School, Brown has been exhibiting since the

Amen Brother

Amen Brother

Music Mar 20, 2008

. “This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the