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An Evil Petting Zoo?

Invitation to help make green history in Sydney A team of visionaries and planning experts have come together to create a high profile “City Farm” and Sustainable Living Centre in Sydney’s historic, and controversial, Callan Park (in Rozelle) – all

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Logomania

Logomania

Movies Jul 31, 2007

“Style is merely the outside of content, and content the inside of style.” – Jean-Luc Godard.

Wall Paper: Art & Life In HKSAR

After 156 years of British rule Hong Kong reverted back to Chinese rule in 1997. It’s now officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). From an international centre of trade and commerce with a population largely uninterested in

Mission Statement

Who are we, The Art Life? It seems incredible that in our fourth year of operation some readers are still asking that question, not just in who we are, literally, but what’s this blog all about? First of all, the

Auto Destruct Sequence

Who ever said ideas had to be subtle? If you want cut through, why even bother with artistic ambiguity? Just say what you have to say and off you go. This seems to be Joan Fontecuberta’s concept for his show

Video Art 1895

Video Art 1895

Media , Movies Jul 24, 2007

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1895) from YouTube.

Test Results: Crazy In The Coconut

Fig 1. A week or so ago we offered our readers the chance to assess their personalities with our FREE NO OBLIGATION PERSONALITY TEST. All you had to do was answer truthfully each of the 50 questions selected to assess

Children of The Sun

The Manufacture of Sky LightMARGARET ROBERTS Appease the Sun / Beata Geyer, 2007 Opening Wednesday 1 Aug, 6 – 8pm.Thursday 2 Aug to Saturday 11 Aug, 1 – 6pmAt Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville 2204 The Manufacture of Sky

Ants

Ants

Site News Jul 17, 2007

Hello. How are you? Would you like a cup of tea? These questions are rhetorical, since we can neither hear you nor actually give you a cup of tea. But let’s just imagine the cup of tea is conceptual and

1968 And All That

The end must have really been something to see. Right on the edge of real radical political change, the period from ‘67 to ‘72 was a period of world wide dissent and ferment. Paris, sure, beneath the streets the beach