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Shit Hot or Not

The recent exhibition of new work by Halinka Orszulok and Rachel Scott at MOP was shit hot. While not curated as a joint show, these concurrent exhibitions both utilised suburbia as a literal and metaphorical site for investigating what is

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Venice Biennale Hee-Haw

Complete the following sentence and win a prize: “I enjoyed The Venice Biennale documentary that screened on the ABC on Tuesday July 17 because…”

True or False?

True or False?

Art Life , Polls Jul 10, 2007

With these 50 scientifically tested and proven questions, we can now offer free personality assessments for all of our readers who leave comments, and answer that vexing question – “What sort of an Art Life reader am I?” Each question

Shame About The Boat Race

TRACEY MOFFATT Portraits +The Beautiful Human Face [a Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg video collaboration] PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 5 JULY, 6-8PMExhibition dates: 5 July– 28 July 20078 Soudan Lane (off Hampden St) Paddington NSW 2021 Sydney Australia Tracey Moffatt, Lloyd

Throwing Tacos At Helen Hunt

Bethany J Fellows wrote to us to advise Art Life readers she is performing her much anticipated Bethany J Fellows V Helen Hunt event on July 5, Centre Place, City [which we think means it’s happening in Melbourne next week].

All in The Numbers III

Numbers: The final episode of The Art Life TV show went to air last night. We logged a very respectable 205,000 viewers, down from ep 2 but with an average of 253,000 viewers per episode. So how did we stack

Well Fancy That: Macca v Macgregor Special

Well Fancy That is our ongoing series of excerpts from the writings of some our favourite critics, journalists and curators. We take a little slice of their latest musings and post them here – usually without comment – for your

Doc At The Radar Station

What a farrago. After our trip to Venice and the wonders of the art there our return to Sydney has been …well, difficult. The Art Life office was nearly blown away in last week’s storms and when we should have

All In The Numbers II

Episode 2 of our ABC TV series went to air on Tuesday night. The numbers were good – 253,000 viewers around the country – slightly down from Episode 1. We were up against some stiff opposition for our key demographic

You Be The Attorney, I’ll Drive

“Revered … but Benjamin has questioned the value of his landscapes.”Photo: Quentin Jones, SMH. Not everyone can write like Jack Marx. And fewer still can do it for The Sydney Morning Herald. Commissioned to write the text for a book