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![Taboo](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-1140x666.jpg)
If contemporary art is a kind of art making that attempts to open up a critical debate with the values and aspirations of wider culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Taboo is the very definition of contemporary practice.
![Postcard from Bilbao](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Sharne Wolff has a fine old time walking through Spain while building incredible calf muscles and art appreciation skills along the way…
![From Canberra with love](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Wendy Meares writes on her trip to Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery and the Gladwell installation at the War Memorial…
![Spaces of experience](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Charlotte Klonk’s Spaces of Experience examines the evolution of the art gallery interior from the dense hang of the 17th century salon through to today’s bespoke architect-designed gallery spaces such as the Guggenheim Bilbao and Tate Britain. She spoke to Andrew Frost about the current state of museology, the presence of new media in spaces designed for paintings and the inescapable presence of the wall text…
![Who You Lookin’ At??!!](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial opened the brand new Gallery of Modern Art in 2006. It was a stupendous event. Interstate art lovers came to witness the cutting of the red ribbon, the brass band at the entrance playing God