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Monsters of the Id

Round, see-through plastic records sitting on a shelf accompanied by an adjacent wall of framed drawings. Each drawing is of a record with various lines on them – some squiggly, others ovoid, still others circular. On the other side of

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It’s new, it’s fresh, it’s…

The Art Life always likes keep a keen eye on happenings in Melbourne but it’s a long way from home. We can’t be everywhere at once, but we did make a special effort to get to the launch of Melbourne’s

The Phenomenon Turned Nostalgic

Pardon our French, but fuck a fucking duck! In a story on page 3 of Tuesday’s Sydney Morning Herald, we read the startling news of a whole new creative medium, something called “Super 8”. Apparently young people are making films

Lists And Damn Lists

Everybody loves a list and the more controversial the better. When we introduced our polls last year, the hits site quadrupled in three days. Of course, we know that people were getting their friends to come in and vote while

A Life In Oil

Over the coming months The Art Life will be talking with some of Australia’s most respected artists – we’ll be chatting with the celebrated conceptual painter L.J. Smith as he approaches a late-mid-career retrospective at The Art Gallery of Contemporary

We’ll Be Right Back, After This…

Due to a sudden and inexplicable illness, The Art Life returns this Thursday.

Girls & Boys

The lift smells like urine and the walls are covered in spider webs of graffiti, splashes of paint and coarse messages. Above the lift buttons there’s an unofficial notice: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY- SUCK MY COCK. We hadn’t even made

Boys & Girls

Just down the road at First Draft Gallery is another Mardi Gras associated exhibition called Brutal (until March 6). Like Wild Boys, we were a little trepidatious walking in but as soon as we had a gander at the art,

Haven’t Seen It, Don’t Like It

ABC Local Radio 702 is Sydney’s second highest rated radio network, just a few points behind that behemoth of talkback, 2GB. Sally Loane , who hosts the weekday 9am to Midday shift, is a woman who has stamped her personality

This Just In…

The Art Life is a clearing house for all sorts of news… The first item may shock and disturb you, especially those of you who spent the better part of a decade sitting in the back rows of the Chauvel