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Nothing is forever and we all know it, but knowing that fact doesn’t make the passing of a much loved artist-run gallery any easier. Gallery Wren will be closing its doors on Wednesday September 7th after four years under the
The vote is in, and readers are adamant – The Australian Centre for Photography’s exhihibtions only lack an olfactory presence to make the black clad gallery the synaesthetic experience du jour. EXHIBITIONS at the ACP Sadly lack smell-o-vision 26% 18
The thing that’s so great about contemporary art is that it’s so funny. If you’re a producer of a weekly current affairs show and it’s a slow news week there’s always the option of covering the latest outrageous exhibition, kooky
Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou are two UK artists. Bored with painting and more interested in science, they applied for some grant money to do experiments towards creating a stable force field. Incredibly, they were given the cash and, infused
Andre Breton had seen a few things. People blown up, gassed, maimed, gone insane. World War One and all that. It was bad. One night he came up with the idea for sur realism, extra realism, the lo fi beginnings
In the past, there were no VCRs, no mobile phones and computers were programed with pieces of cardboard. Information was centralised, access was analogue, low tech, on foot. The future lived only inside our heads. It was something to imagine,
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
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
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
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 %