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Not Art [Mostly]

A little while back we posted a site that featured a robotic AI simulacrum of Philip K. Dick. Although we had some trepidation posting sites that aren’t about strictly about art, the response was enthusiastic. In that spirit we offer

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Killing Time In Print

The slowness of print media is never better exemplified than by the time an issue will spend on the shelves. Although the date on the cover may propose a three month window for the quarterlies, the choice of cover image

Not A Manila Folder

For some people it’s hard to know when they decided to become an artist. For most, it just sort of happened. Perhaps, if you concentrate hard enough, you could remember a formative experience – being taken on a school excursion

Art Life Readers Say Yes To Life, Art

What a turn up! Not only we sunny, happy people, we say yes to tall poppies. Everyone gets a pat on the back: What to do about Tall Poppies Build them up 68 % [48] Cut them down 32 %

Dead Princesses

There was beer and there were sausages and we were right next to the harbour. The sun was shining. Men were kissing. [We were ok with that, but sometimes guys kissing each other isn’t right, like when one straight guy

Not Again

Not Again

Uncategorized Aug 11, 2005

Colin Lanceley, Beyond The Hills (Cicada and Dry Grass Singing), 2004. Oil on carved wood and canvas, 121x174cms. Courtesy: Australian Galleries. You go into the studio and you’re thinking, oh fuck, not this again please god no, it can’t be,

Trout Mask Replicant

Now this is weird. We were told last week that an image of a work by Patricia Piccinini had turned up on an Arabic language web site. Going over to the site we found images from The Leather Landscape with

Greetings From The Art Life

There’s nothing really duller than a blog entry that starts “We’ve recently added new links…” but there’s no getting around it – we’ve added a lot of new links. Please admire the length and breadth of the Orgs links that

The Numbers

The Numbers

Uncategorized Aug 08, 2005

It’s a shame that Tracey Moffatt doesn’t have an opening every week. The weekend Sauce column in the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story in which we scored a small mention [albeit with the wrong spelling and no URL…]: A

Now Nau Man

Now Nau Man

Uncategorized Aug 04, 2005

Christopher Hanrahan is an artist who seems to be everywhere. Luckily he doesn’t have the same public profile as some artists and much of his involvement is behind the scenes helping out with other artist’s shows, so despite the apparent