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Speaking of Sam Smith, as we were, we have to say that we admire his gumption. He wrote to us an invited us down to Room 35, the hire space gallery at Gitte Weise Gallery, to see his show Set
We were saddened to hear that Australian film director Tim Burstall had suffered a stroke while watching a retrospective of his films in Melbourne. He died the next morning after being rushed to hospital, age 76. A significant figure in
A few weeks back we ran a story about the complaints of conservative Federal MP’s who think that the Parliament House art collection is a disgrace. The ABC’s 7.30 Report ran a report on it on Thursday the 8th of
PavModern – Mary Lou Pavlovic’s world straddling art gallery-come-museum-without-walls – has an Educational Unit. According to the PM web site, the Unit looks “at things we think are overlooked in the broader art world, and make them prominent.” As part
It’s getting to be that time again in Sydney when summer fades into autumn and the shadows are darker, the sun light in the afternoon more yellow and, no matter how much coffee and cake we consume, we can’t shake
The Black Fellas Dreaming Gallery on Oxford Street is terrible. The paintings in the window that we see as we walk past on our way to Taylor Square or the bottle shop are uniformly awful and we have never ever
We couldn’t think of a way in our coverage of the Sulman Prize last week to discuss the inclusion of a work by Virginia Coventry called Hover, a geometric abstract painting. It was interesting to see the painting because we
“What can [the work of Rover Thomas] be compared to? A list of my favourite painters would include Terry Winter, Brice Marden, John Olsen, Mark Rothko, Susan Rothenberg, Sean Scully, Therese Oulton, and Ian Fairweather. I list those artists (out
We don’t know why we think drinking a lot of beer is a good idea. We don’t know why drinking wine on top of beer is smart and clever and we haven’t the foggiest why we always think we can
There is a Wall of Shame in this year’s photo competition, three tedious and overdone photographs hung side by side that are a microcosm of the hip and conceptually obvious school of Australian Art Photography. On the left is Polixeni