You didn’t think Elizabeth Ann Macgregor wore those boots as a fashion statement did you? They fight dirty, they fight mean and the final vote shows that the upstarts gave the dowdy Art Gallery of NSW a kicking they won’t

We persist in spelling Leigh Bowery as Leigh Bowrey. We don’t know why – it’ some sort of mental block. We apologise to the readers who have faithfully and repeatedly emailed us to point out this (and other) mistakes. We

We’ve been meaning for ages to get down to MOP Projects , thinking it had taken over the old space that had been occupied by PCL Exhibitionists. We have another mental block, this one about that end of Elizabeth Street

“747” emailed us to say that we should institute a Quote Of The Week feature here at The Art Life and it seems like a good idea. We’ll get some people on to it. 747 says we should kick off

Today we saw a show that was either one of the best shows we’ve ever seen or perhaps one of the most insane. At UTS Gallery right now (until November 5) is an exhibition called Written With Darkness curated by

“Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes, and he went down, but, to my surprise, he come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair right across his teeth

It’s that time of year again, the season that heralds the arrival of spring and summer painting competitions. It starts with the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and ends with the Archibald. This year’s winner of the send-an-artist-overseas BWTAS prize

The leaf says “call me”. Another leaf says “me too” while a string of creeper vine spells out the words “thanks for nothing”. It seems as though nature in Bronwyn Rennex’s show Small Fires at Stills Gallery is trying to

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