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Art Write is a publication put out by students of the University of NSW College of Fine Arts. It has been running in various guises since 1992, first appearing as a Word 5 doc and, after a few intermediary steps,

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Sexist In The City

Anyway, there’s this TV series that’s has its last episode tonight and frankly, we were over it about a year and a half ago. We have our TV allegiances and we have residual loyalty to SiTC but things have been

Read & Blue Paintings in Acrylics, No Thanks…

Our latest poll proves decisively that Art Life readers have little time for red and blue paintings done in acrylics. Perhaps even more surprising is that if it’s not a painting, all the better. I Like A Painting that is

Briefly Noted: Exhibitions

The Tall Show – A new mixed media show for artists over 181cms tall, the art varies from painting and photography to video installation, but does not necessarily conform to the bean pole theme. The Tall Gallery, Until Nov 30.

A Festivus For The Rest of Us

The season we love the most here at The Art Life is nearly upon us. Yes, it’s that’s difficult ten week period from mid-November until the end of January when commercial galleries go on holiday, the public galleries let their

Ooh, So Close!

Voting has now closed on our Who Is The Most Influential Art Person In Melbourne? Poll and the shock results are that Anna Schwartz and Other tied for first place. Anna Schwartz 20% 18 Other 20% 18 Un Magazine 12%

We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About

Clearly, we know nothing about the Melbourne art scene. Aren’t those Angry Penguins still angry? We would have thought so, what with all the melting ice and poetry floating around? Clearly Ted Colless is important, as are Artie and Corrine

Unloved Art Work

Meanwhile, we find a minor victory for a special alliance between ignoramuses and the aesthetically outraged as the Sydney Morning Herald’s Spike column reports that Ken Unsworth’s much hated sculpture Stones Against The Sky is going to be “axed”. Standing

Balls, Tractors…

When we jokingly said that Tim Olsen Gallery should be in the Rocks two weeks ago we were wrong. After spending half a day walking around Woollahra we realise that it’s in exactly the right place. There are so many

“We’ve Got Both Types… Country and Western!”

It’s the last days of Richard Grayson’s show at Yuill/Crowley on until November 6. The hubbub in the press has been about the 2 channel video piece called Messiah which is a Country and Western reworking of Handel’s Messiah and