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Andrew Frost discovers a cache of paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art – and a few of them aren’t too bad…
In a fit of sanity, the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW met on Tuesday May 27th to discuss the awarding of this year’s Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting to Sydney artist Sam Leach. Their decision was to uphold the award.
Sydney-based artist Sam Leach has curated Extropians, a new show at Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art. The exhibitions brings together a group of artists whose work suggests ambiguous science fictional narratives. Leach spoke to the Art Life about the ideas
Kazuki Takamatsu, Our Best Place, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 586x320mm Kazuki Takamatsu, Target, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 420x420mm Kazuki Takamatsu, Go to nest!!, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 586x320mm Kazuki Takamatsu, Meal time, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 420x420mm Distantfeerism: Kazuki Takamatsu
From Isobel Johnston… The raven is a bird often seen as a portent of evil or a bad omen. In their absence or their presence there lies the unsettling suggestion that something evil follows. From the six ravens that legend
From John Kelly… It could be an advertisement for some super blue detergent, but the Baie des Anges on the Côte d’Azur is not chemically enhanced. The sea really is the colour of the cloudless sky. I feel summer bliss
The Art Gallery of NSW opens a major new show this Thursday [June 4] called Intensely Dutch. The gallery’s publicity calls the show “uncompromising, confronting, optimistic” as it looks at 15 of the most important Dutch artists of the post
Deidre But-Husaim, Wenceslas, 2009. Oil on linen, 153 x 112cm. “Popular culture is both the prolific producer and voracious consumer of the beauty myth and its heroes and heroines, who provide creative fodder for Deidre But-Husaim. Her edgy painted portraits
Pepe Le Pew writes… Artexpress 2009 opened the Art Gallery of NSW. It was a gala affair despite an earlier midday starting time replete with new Ministers and special guests Ben Quilty and Del Kathryn Barton who offered pragmatic and