quarARTine #2
World Science Festival Brisbane (WSFB) was to be held 25-29 March 2020 this year, until COVID-19 reared its ugly germs. It’s not an event that immediately screams [...]
museums
Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize Winners for 2016 are…ALL WOMEN!
I know, I know. There’s nothing as important in Australian art as The Archie’s aka Paint Sniffers Christmas! Here are the winners: Louise Hearman has taken out [...]
Ai Wei Wei at Cycladic
Sometimes it feels like Ai Wei Wei’s prolific Instagram presence might threaten to undermine his vast body of work. One of the world’s most recognisable [...]
Robyn Stacey’s Cloud Land
There’s a perverse thing about humans that make two behavioral quirks a certainty: when we see a closed door, we immediately want to know what’s happening on [...]
William Bustard: Painting With Light
“I can only say that I am captivated by the rich contrasts, beautiful skies, trees and clear light of this great land, and I am happy to say that I find countless [...]
What’s In Your Bag?
It occurred to me today that no one ever has a suitcase in their hand unless something significant is about to happen. Overseas adventures, interstate getaways, annual [...]
Fashion as Art…so…FART?
Oh, blerg. It’s ‘fashion as art’ season again. This happens every few years – the major public galleries around the country throw their doors and [...]
Mercy Heritage Centre, Brisbane
It takes a minor miracle to get me near anything that even vaguely resembles a church. Well, a miracle or a “you must turn up or you’ll fail” directive [...]
Inside
“I am now eighty-two years old and these memories remain very clear. What happened to our childhood?” Carmel Durant, 2010 To walk through the new touring [...]
A Whale of a Job (boom-tish)
I have one distinct memory of visiting the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and it’s this: Standing in the Hall of Ocean Life getting slightly [...]
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