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Sylvania Waters is one of those select few television programs that became a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It had an impact more significant than anything that can be simply conferred via hype, clever advertising or sensational content. It is well
From Bonny Dot Cassidy The last six months have blessed Sydney with exhilarating exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous art including the recently (and too promptly) ended Kitty Kantilla retrospective, plus two current shows: the Lockhart women’s group mounting at Hogarth Galleries,
After kicking off the 2008 exhibition year at Artspace, Lily Hibberd‘s Bordertown installation recently opened at Melbourne’s Conical Inc where it will be on show until March 29. The Art Life spoke with Hibberd in Melbourne. Lily Hibberd, Bordertown, 2008.Installation
The National Gallery of Australia and its presentation of The Aboriginal Memorial have a long and chequered history. Originally conceived by Djon Mundine at the time of the Bicentennial as a memorial to 200 years of the victims of white
Curiosity drove The Art Life to the National Museum of Australia. How has it weathered the storm of the history wars? Did it survive the intense criticism of its so-called “black armband” view of Australian history and which led to
Del Kathryn Barton’sVasili Kaliman and contained familiar together within the Dreaming. Pros: Strikingly different, immaculately painted, spooky witchcraft! Cons: No one ever admits Archi voting is political, but it is… Percentage Chance of Win: 87% Cherry Hood’s Ben Quilty Pros:
The opening of GOMA.
Campbelltown Arts Centre. They have a cafe that sells good strong coffee and plays Nina Simone. Looking out over the trees to the clouds, with the jazz music and the heat, we’re starting to doze… Outside the galley there is
We slighted the talent of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber a couple of weeks ago and now we’re paying the price. As has been pointed out to us by A Reader, Chess had its lyrics written by Lloyd Webber associate Tim
Man Ray was an invention. Born Emmanuel Radinski, Ray changed his name when he was 15 because of the way the other kids in his Philadelphia neighbourhood made fun of his “foreign” sounding name. He even invented an entire history