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The Art Life on DVD

It’s official – The Art Life Season One is now available on DVD*. A bargain at $39.95 [including p&p] the DVD features the complete Art Life series screened on ABC1. Packaged in a handsome plastic-look DVD box with cover art

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This Is Easily The Greatest Painting Ever Made, And We’re Not Being Ironic, We Really Mean It, If There Is A God Roger Boreham Will Win The Archibald
Be My Dada

Be My Dada

News Feb 27, 2008

Duchamp, bad father“The career of Marcel Duchamp offers a rare instance of chaos theory as applied to the history of art. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been foreseen

Sooper Troopers

From Bonny Dot Cassidy They come loitering down a runway, into Linda Marrinon’s sixth solo show Figure Sculpture II at Roslyn Oxley9 [until March 1]. Beautiful troopers that they are, it’s hard not to wish for a battalion rather than

Glorious Mono

Glorious Mono

Media , Music Feb 18, 2008

From Ian Houston Robert Henke, also known as Monolake, is a musician, but only just. He explores that area of music on the very edge of becoming sound or perhaps he explores that area of noise, just on the edge

Beijing Postcard

From Vienna Parreno Fake Fakes & Real Fakes I spent the second to last weekend of my Redgate residency arting & cramicking at the market – except most of the ceramic pieces the locals were hawking were probably made a

Learn to paint the Jackson Pollock way!

Excerpt from Jackson Pollock 51 by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg (directors) from YouTube. If you’re viewing this post via email, click here to view.

Making art public

Brett Sheehy has been Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts since March 2004. This year’s festival, opening on the 29th of February will be his last as he takes the reins of the Melbourne International Arts Festival from

In It for the Degas

In It for the Degas

News Feb 12, 2008

“ZURICH — Armed robbers stole four important paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cézanne from a museum in Zurich, the Swiss authorities announced Monday, in what they said might have been the largest art theft in Europe. “Three thieves,

Well Fancy That #16: Sydney Rules

“Every time a new gallery – or even a new exhibition – is opened in Melbourne, Canberra or Brisbane, one hears a chorus of comments about how Sydney will soon be left behind. This is the second biggest furphy in