Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company
I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent [...]
Reviews
Matilda’s genius charms Brisbane
Children are maggots. I’ve always wanted to say that. Sorry, where was I? Oh yes… Matilda has arrived in Brisbane, and it’s just as revoltingly vile as Roald Dahl [...]
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 [...]
Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart
When Sydney artist Linde Ivimey was looking for a new studio space a few years ago, she chanced upon a two story warehouse in the inner west that was exactly what she [...]
The Other Art Fair, Sydney
I’m not sure there’s a busier place for art lovers than Sydney right now. Three major art fairs, the Archibald still hanging in the Art Gallery of NSW and White [...]
Desirelines at the Judy
Desire Lines, both physical and metaphorical, are single moments of defiance that quickly become the norm as others follow suit. They are the beaten dirt tracks [...]
Miles Hall: Solid Liquid States
Very rarely in the course of writing this blog do I get to enjoy art for its own sake any more. These days it’s all about researching the artist and understanding their [...]
Discerning Judgment
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.” Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Minima Moralia I’m not sure there are too many places with less ambience than law libraries. [...]
The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
When the Dobell Drawing Prize was discontinued by the Art Gallery of NSW in 2012, a real disservice was done to Australian art. Though the name has carried through to a [...]
At QPAC, Anything Goes
There are times when I really do have to pinch myself at how lucky I am to do the things I do as a result of this blog. Even though it’s work, it does seem a [...]
