W H Chong, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

Unorthodox on Netflix is: thrilling, surreal, fascinating, tense, tender, revelatory, exhilarating. Or, essentially, Wow! Set in the present, based on …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Kevin Connor visual arts review (Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne)

W H Chong

This show of paintings and drawings has the fervour of an artist in their youthful prime, but Connor is 87 …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Rosie Weiss and David Keeling visual arts reviews (Melbourne)

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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery: Rosie Weiss Part of the sprawling Climarte Festival, ‘In the Valley’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Moya McKenna’s Wild Beast (Neon Parc, Melbourne)

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Derived from a single image of a lion devouring a zebra, Moya McKenna’s suite of six paintings is an exploration …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Paul Boston’s Magnificent Mystery Art at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

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Melbourne artist Paul Boston has produced a new group of pictures of highly refined aesthetic and philosophical concerns. (Upstairs is …

Exhibitions, News & Commentary, Visual Arts

Picasso, art and #metoo

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Hannah Gadsby excoriated Picasso in her viral Netflix Nanette show: as a misogynist and child abuser (P was 46 when he …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Rick Amor’s beguiling The Tent at Niagara Galleries Melbourne

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Pictures, paintings and art: in contemporary practice these often do not overlap. Rick Amor is one of Australia’s premier painters …

Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts

Is Gerhard Richter the world’s greatest living artist?

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One of the publicity quotes for the GOMA show in Brisbane declares that Gerhard Richter is the world’s greatest living …

Live, Music, News & Commentary, Screen, Stage

Dark Mofo 2017: dark, deep and occassional sightings of David Walsh

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Hobart at night is awash with pools of red light. Building facades, boats, reflections, windows. Black hoods with red crosses, …

News & Commentary

John Clarke, We Need You More Than Ever

W H Chong

Vicious, I know, but why isn’t it instead, who’s dead: a liar or hypocrite or spouter of shite? Who will …