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Time Travelling in Shanghai

Luise Guest reports from the 9th Shanghai Biennale and the Rockbund Museum of Art…

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Laibach | Warme Lederhaut

An Introduction To… Laibach: Reproduction Prohibited

Spirit of the Land / Plastici

Two very different shows meet in the middle…

Brett Whiteley: On the Water

The Australian cliché is its beach culture, the one things most tourists know about the place and the site of a contest between values of inclusion and exclusion.

Wicked Women

Sexy or sexist?

Anish Kapoor

One doesn’t often get a bigger summer art blockbuster as big as the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Anish Kapoor extravaganza.

Cut Colony

At some point in the last half-decade more and more artists began taking their video cameras into the countryside…

Access to Life

It was thirty years ago that the first case of HIV was diagnosed in Australia.

Dobell Prize for Drawing

Last outing for the Dobell…

Taboo

Taboo

Art Life , Exhibitions Dec 21, 2012

If contemporary art is a kind of art making that attempts to open up a critical debate with the values and aspirations of wider culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Taboo is the very definition of contemporary practice.