We are naturally very paranoid people. Over at First Draft Gallery the exhibition Turning Tricks: Old-School Magic by New School Artists kicked off last Thursday night, curated by Soda_Jerk and featuring the work of a number of young artists including

There’s something incredibly refreshing about visiting the Museum of Contemporary Art. From the small but perfectly formed bookshop to the friendly coat check ladies to the snippy queens in the restaurant who inform you that they’re now serving lunch and

The plain fact is that most contemporary art is no more complicated in it’s meaning than a dog scratching itself. This is not a bad thing. In a world where visual art must cut through the static of the everyday

Someone must have thought it was a good idea to stage The Unquiet Landscapes of Rosemary Laing at the same time as Mona Hatoum’s retrospective. They share some of the same visual approaches – deliberate confusions of scale and material,

The latest issue of Photofile (Winter 2005) has hit the stands and features a list purporting to be the Top Ten Australian Video Artists. According to guest editor Brendan Lee, the magazine surveyed over two thousand people to nominate three

Speaking of Australian Art Collector, the latest issue features a cover with Melbourne artist Monika Tichacek raising her arm in the name of publicity. Covers for AAC have been a very mixed bag indeed straying away from the original formula

How is it that chefs are running the world? In league with godless publicists, you can’t an open a magazine or newspaper without seeing the latest goings on of a chef around town, his new premises, restaurant, sandwich bar or

As Lee Scratch Perry said, you thought we were dead??? We have to admit that it may seem from the outside that we’ve been slacking. Uplands Gallery wrote to us asking if there was something wrong with our website because