Across the Domain from the State Library is the Art Gallery of NSW. How lovely it looks on a busy Wednesday lunchtime and how even more lovely to go inside to look at some celestial silks! How marvelous! How silky!
They do things differently in Norway. After two paintings by Edvard Munch were stolen by thieves in a ‘brazen’ walk in, walk out ‘raid’, it was revealed that neither The Scream nor Madonna was insured against theft. As Agence France
One of the perpetual stories of the Sydney media is the vexing question of why Ken Done doesn’t get respect. It’s a story that comes around every few years and it always posits the same argument – here’s a guy
Our very special report on the life and times of Peter Hill has only just been posted and already we’ve had complaints. It wasn’t so much what we had said, it was what we didn’t say (see Litmus Paper Glowing
Every time you walk into Art House Gallery, it’s hard not to wonder how young Joshua Yeldham feels about being represented by a gallery that’s run by his mum Di and his older sister Ali. Do you suppose they keep
The first thing we saw when we walked into Brook Andrew’s show Photography and Neon at Stills Gallery was a work mounted at the top of the stairs. At the bottom was the White House and sailing way above it
James Angus’s installation at The Art Gallery of NSW is called Truck Corridor. The artist has taken a full sized 16 wheel Mack Truck and put it in the Contemporary Project Space on Level Two. We liked the idea of
There’s not a lot to be gained on ganging up on the same person week after week. We swore off having a go at Peter Hill, the Sydney Morning Herald art ‘reviewer’, because we just kept repeating ourselves. Hill’s m.o.
Where were you? Brad Miller was there, Jan Batten was there, Dominique Angeloro was there, even Christoper Hanrahan and his mouthy mate were there with a bottle of wine and something to say! Yes, it was the first public “appearance”
According to the art world the Melbourne Art Fair is a good thing, a festive gathering of gallery people from around the country, who put up their best stuff and have fun at cocktail parties attended by international art celebrities.