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Pants To That

Shaun Gladwell’s pants: Or how I learned to love Pataphysical Man A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky at Bondi Beach is the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia. The artwork, titled

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Multiple Personalities

Gallery 1 Multiple Personality Mat de Moiser, Adrienne Doig, Matthew Hopkins, Robin Hungerford, Sari Kivinen, Ms & Mr, Luke Roberts, Pope Alice Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham Pope Alice, Giza circa AD 1500, from Appearances series, ongoing.Courtesy Luke Roberts, Pope

We Control The Vertical

We’re excited to announce that The Art Life will be returning to the screens of your ABC on Tuesday, November 13 at 10pm for a one-off year-in-review special A Year In The Art Life. We’ll be casting our collective eyes

Democratic Art Life

Democratic Art Life

Polls Sep 11, 2007

They say the only poll that matters is the one on election day. That may be true for electing governments, but it’s cold comfort for an art world where elections are never held and the people in charge step down

Well Fancy That #14

Well Fancy That #14

Stuff Sep 10, 2007

“The Dobell [Prize for Drawing], at the Art Gallery of NSW, is a good case study because it is one of the better prizes: it is well organised and motivated by good intentions. The idea of an acquisitive prize supporting

Things To See and Do

You’ve been wasting a lot of time browsing… which usually means you want to spend more time browsing. It’s a vicious cycle. Happily we’re here to help… We’ve updated with some new artist’s links. Incessant scribbler Gosia Wlodarczak has launched

Vale Stephen Birch

Stephen Birch, Accumulations/Accretions, 2006. [Detail]. It’s with sadness that we report the death of the artist Stephen Birch. He passed away on Sunday evening after a long battle with cancer. He was 46. A funeral service will be held on

How To: Art Gimmicks

Been slaving away at the art coalface trying to snag some PR profile? Nothing happening? Don’t despair. The art world is full of sure-fire methods to get you the position you desire – at the front of the bank queue

Quarto Non Fiction

Click to enlarge * INTERMEDIARIES Places, spaces, cultures and continents are the fundamental connections that bring together artists Guillermo Cardenas-Fischer (Colombia), Paola Gaviria (Columbia-Ecuador) and Rolande Souliere (Canada). Moving between countries and settling into new cultural domains, have enabled them

Good Will Art Tour

The eternal question – where are we? We’re in Brisbane to talk to Queensland University of Technology students about careers in art writing. It’s raining and its cold and the people in the big mall in the centre of town