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This is the show-opening speech by Northern Territory artist Therese Ritchie for her recent show of new work Blacks in the back, cunts in the front held at the Outstation Gallery in Darwin last month. She writes that the show’s title is “a perfect description of how schizoid non-indigenous Australians can be when it comes to thinking about Aboriginal
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The secret is out but the mystery is definitely not over – The Art of Banksy exhibition is set to invade Melbourne from October 2016. The Australian-first exhibition will see The Paddock, Federation Square transformed into a hub of art, food, drinks and music, taking visitors on an artistic adventure into the mind of Banksy
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‘Painting is dead,’ said Paul Delaroche in 1839, a French painter ironically best known for his fateful quote. That was the year the world was introduced to the daguerreotype, the photograph as we know it. Recently the art critic for Melbourne’s and Sydney’s non-Murdoch dailies wrote: ‘Painters and curators know that painting is dead but
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Scott Redford is a prominent artist who lives in Queensland. He’s also a frequent commenter on this website, mostly about how public servants employed as curators reaffirm their own tastes when they make choices about who, and what to show in their state-funded museums. Redford is the first to admit he’s a “ratbag/whistleblower” whose — to put it mildly — forthright
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Paul Grabowsky, the composer and Executive Director of Performing Arts of the Academy of Performing Arts at Monash University, says Senator George Brandis, the former federal arts minister, practised “social Darwinism at its most naked”, in his raid last year on Australia Council’s funding and his new ‘Catalyst’ program for “arts excellence” — a ministerial slush fund that endures (in part) under
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Marco Luccio, like many artists before him, is drawn to New York City’s energy as much as he is to the ‘idea’ of the city communicated in so much art, film and literature. In a new exhibition of work called New York Mythic he draws the city in ink and charcoal and uses etching and drypoint techniques in a series of
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I’m writing this under the duress of jet lag so anything I say is after a 24-hour flight from Sydney to Dublin with only an hour’s break in Singapore and London along the way. However as I wake at midnight, I feel compelled to write and while I am supposed to be composing a proposal
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It’s estimated that there are 800 Van Gogh paintings in the world and 60 of them will be making their way to Australia for next year’s annual Melbourne Winter Masterpiece blockbuster at the National Gallerty of Victoria. Van Gogh and the Seasons (April 28 – June 9) will be a new exhibition curated by the art historian Sjraar van Heugten,
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From 1879 to 1882, Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden was the home of a magnificent and enormous Garden Palace, not dissimilar to Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. But early on the morning of September 22, 1882, the Palace burned to the ground, leaving a massive patch of the Garden empty until today. Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones is reviving the
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If you want to see the work of anonymous street artist Banksy, you usually have to go around the world, hunting down his pieces. It mightn’t be entirely in keeping with the subversive spirit of Banksy’s politically-charged work, but an innovative new exhibition will show some of his most famous pieces in Melbourne, conveniently all located in
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