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Mash Up Goes Mainstream

10 Things I Hate About Commandments, by Mike Dow, via Youtube.

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While You Were Out

We’ve recently received a number of emails and comments asking us to do things, add links to our site or make various admissions. For example, a reader known only as Cruiser asked in a typically demanding yet lovable way: Maybe

Whiteley Studio To Close

Wednesday 18 April 2007: Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, announced today that entry to the Brett Whiteley Studio will be free of charge from Saturday 21 April 2007 until its closure on April 30,

Beat The Meetles

Our first guest blog this week comes not from a fellow blogger but from Ian Houston, an actual reader of The Art Life. Mr. Houston writes from New York on the exhibition “Meet the Artists: Collaborative Works by Jake Paul

Well Fancy That #8

Well Fancy That #8

Stuff Apr 16, 2007

“We made love this morning: how many people can say that? But she can turn from a sweetheart into a Medusa in a nanosecond. In the past, we used to to totally poison our lives. She would say horrendous things

Texta Dreams

Texta Dreams

Art Life , Reviews Apr 14, 2007

This week’s surprise second guest blog comes from a long-time supporter of The Art Life, the Melbourne-based bon viveur known only as Sublime-ation. Her blog, running for since 2005, carries the legend ‘blogging not jogging’ – sage advice since that

Hey, Art Inside!

Marcus Trimble returns with the latest installment in his magnum opus style guest blog – this week a short tour through art galleries of the world… Now that I have all the plugs for gravestmor out of the way, and

Anemic-cinemA

Anemic-cinemA

Movies Apr 10, 2007

Anemic cinemA

Hello From TV Land

Always remember – your “inner critic” is a fool.

Well Fancy That #7

Well Fancy That #7

Stuff Apr 02, 2007

“It took a new method of painting — outdoors, freely and with loaded, square-tipped brushes — and a few artists of rare talent to convey the real look and feel of Australia’s pastoral landscape, its coastline and its wealthy cities.