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Want a thrill? Want to throw a special party or settle a grudge? Want your dishes washed? “Anything you want to have happen, we will try our best to make it happen,” says Brock Enright, a 29-year-old New York artist
Our story here yesterday that the art section in Metro, the weekly entertainment lift out that appears in the SMH on Fridays, was about to be cut is apparently incorrect. The liftout is being redesigned. What that means we shall
Last week we tried something different. We offered Art Life readers audio downloads [our first multimedia offering] which were commentaries on the art works in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Primavera exhibition. Not all of them are spoken word; some
Wow. When you get something wrong, you can really get it wrong. We blame our dyslexia and too much booze, but when we posted this story last week we mistook David Harley for Stephen Haley, the artist whose show we
At Cross Art Projects there’s a show on called Double Dutch until October 2 that features four painters who are either from the Netherlands or have Dutch parentage. When we first heard about the show we had our reservations. We
David McNeil and Zanny Begg are the curators of the exhibition on at Ivan Dougherty Gallery called Disobedience. The first thing you think when you walk in the door is that this show is ‘political’ in that it has the
MEDIA RELEASE: MELBOURNE ARTIST TO STAGE AFL GRAND FINAL SKY WRITING PROJECT ADDRESSING ISSUE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Melbourne artist Mary Lou Pavlovic will stage an AFL Grand Final Sky Writing Project over the MCG this Saturday 24/09/05. The theme
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What history shows is that we should treat cautiously the rhetoric of those who would impose their morality on art and dictate what is or is not fit for cultural consumption. Back in 1937, then attorney-general Robert Menzies advocated the
From The Archive: Art & Life, September 1975.