December 18

Alice Springs Beanie Festival visits Bundoora Homestead

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Pope Francis (and here I must stress that I don’t often quote Popes unless they make really terrific points) has recently been highly critical of consumerism, which he identifies as having brought us a good deal of anxiety. We, he says, need to buy less and stop spending our precious leisure time in shopping centres, […]

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December 16

Richard Avedon Show: Ian Potter Centre

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Richard Avedon grew up in New York when anyone could live there, even not really rich people. Richard Avedon’s disciplinarian Dad owned a dress shop on Fifth Avenue. His mama loved dresses and art and encouraged an insatiable thirst for culture within her son. He joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) Camera Club at […]

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December 10

Make Art at Uni: VCA Masters Show 2014

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Destiny Deacon once said:  I’ve been to the top of the mountain and I looked over the other side and there’s nothing there. Harry the Hairdresser has been to more art shows than most. I asked him what kept him coming back. He said it was the drama. The art scene, he said, was a […]

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November 30

Emily Floyd: The Dawn

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I sit on Emily Floyd’s new public art commission at the NGV, The Dawn. The work is named after The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women, which was edited and published by feminist Louisa Lawson from 1888 to 1905. Emily’s The Dawn is part sculpture, part library, and about ‘Feminism, activism, the printed word, open […]

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November 29

C3 Fund Raiser: Faux Museum

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As we enter the silly season of conspicuous consumption, shoppers flooded the crisp C3 exhibition space at Abbotsford Convent and went absolutely ballistic, stuffing their stockings to overflowing with original artworks at bargain prices. This Christmas, show your loved ones you’ve forgiven them with a gift of art and don’t forget that for a price, […]

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November 25

The Instrument Builders Project Finale

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I love a bit of noise me. Give me a beat and I go off like a spinning top. All twisted and writhing energy, woo-hooing at the end of a decent track and screaming ENCORE ENCORE! Some would say I’m a Groupie. I’d call me a music enthusiast who has accidently, but vigorously, bedded down […]

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November 24

Jordan Marani’s Colourful Language

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“Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15, doesn’t give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us.” Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating (to Jim McClelland) Gee I miss Paul Keating. Not the older recent ‘I did that, that’s my idea’ Paul Keating. The […]

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November 19

Aphids 20th Birthday

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“On the very cutting edge of irrelevance to mainstream Australia”, said Aphids Artistic Director Willoh S Weiland, at a function to conclude a screen residency at Federation Square last week. Aphids also celebrated their 20th birthday. Aphids is an artist led cultural organization, making epic contemporary art projects, across art forms and borders. There’s video, […]

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November 18

West Space End of Year Show

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Proudly straddling two cities, Salote Tawale is a prolific artist who knows the Hume Highway like the back of her bust. That’s a self-portrait bust, not a breast bust. She’s a member of a small group of Industry Leaders who are helping help us develop a grassroots Sydney/Melbourne art dialogue, one couch surf at a […]

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November 16

Alex Prager and David Shrigley Media Call

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I’m too lazy to work at the NGV. They’re going so hard, you get dizzy trying to keep up with all the new shows opening and closing. Last week it was the Instrument Builders Project, this week Alex Prager and David Shrigley and next week it’s Emily Floyd. All that on top of the monolith […]

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