Amanda De Simone - Crying Boy Fanclub
With Amanda De Simone’s new exhibition, Crying Boy Fanclub, it would seem that The Cure were wrong all along – boys do cry. Similar to Sam... read more...
Xing Danwen, duplication/disCONNEXION
With all the warmth of a forensic investigation, acclaimed Beijing photographer Xing Danwen explores the impact of modernity on an increasingly global... read more...
Siri Hayes and Kristian Haggblom
In the peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death.... read more...
Barbara Kruger
It could be tempting to compare American superstar artist Barbara Kruger with pop superstar Madonna – both have been continually producing hits for... read more...
Ash Keating, Press Release
Melbourne’s mX newspaper is more popular than gouging out your eyes with a fork. However, if they handed out free forks at train stations we are... read more...
The Sculpture of Flying Dreams- The Ephemeral Idea and the Clunky Object
Wanda Gillespie’s show explores ‘the universal wish for flight and wanting the impossible’. We want to fly only because we can’t,... read more...
Resfest 2005
Sounding somewhat similar to Confest, Resfest does not involve thousands of people walking naked on the beach, patchouli, or chickpeas, although it does... read more...
Smells Like White-Out
Art and crime make an odd couple. Like most celebrity flings, any attempt at marriage usually ends in divorce; think good-guy/criminal Mark "Chopper"... read more...
British Art & the 60s
Emerging from a period of austerity, 1960s Britain was stirred by a newfound optimism and prosperity in the form of artistic innovation and social liberation.... read more...
Martin Creed, The Lights Off
The Melbourne International Arts Festival has pulled a big name for its visual arts program in the 2004 Turner Prize winner, Martin Creed. Thousands of... read more...
Martin Parr
Photography has a cruel habit of capturing the cruellest of moments and inopportune poses. The muffin top hanging over the hipster jeans, the angle where... read more...
A-Zero Exhibtion, Is Not Magazine
Big Art! Booze! Music! New Issue! Stuff! Party!Is Not Magazine issue #4 Launch & A-Zero – a one night-only paste-up exhibition of epic proportions... read more...
James Lynch, Some new paintings and a zoetrope
Straddling the Little Greece and Chinatown pockets of the city is Waratah Place, and nestled in amongst Club X, Erotica Plus, Cheapaway Bottleshop and... read more...
Del Kathryn Barton
Del Kathryn Barton grew up on an alpaca farm outside of Sydney. This may help us to understand the perplexing beauty of her works. The artist describes... read more...
The Devil Dropped Me When I Was Six
We have all been dropped by the devil at some stage in our lives, but very few at the tender age of six. Given the title for their show by a late night... read more...
Louise Weaver, no small wonder
The relationship between art and craft is in many ways similar to that of rock and pop. They are similar, competitive yet distinct, and one is clearly... read more...
Nick Mangan, The Colony
Nick Mangan’s sculptural works are molecular, elemental and intricate. They are created from natural and man-made materials such as wood, bone, crystal... read more...
The Museum of Particularly Bad Art
What do ‘The Bold and The Beautiful’, Four and Twenty Meat Pies an Oprah’s Book Club have in common? They’re so bad that they’re... read more...
Jota Castro 'Presidentia Italiana 2/07/03'
Jota Castro, a deliciously quirky character, is a former diplomat at the UN and EU turned prominent International artist. His practise includes installation,... read more...
This and Other Worlds
If you think that drawing is the poor man’s painting then you’re the richman’s fool. It can be said that drawing is a primal art, more... read more...
Lyndal Walker Stay Young
Lyndal Walker’s Stay Young is one of the current shows in the still freshly renovated CCP. It sees the Melbourne-scenester photographer continue... read more...
Rhys Lee, Twinkle Twinkle
Twinkle Twinkle, the title of Rhys Lee’s current exhibition at Helen Gory Galerie, confirms that this young art-star is burning bright. A prolific... read more...
The Basefield Projects
After two years of exhibiting at the Chapel galleries and having raised over $15,000 for children’s charities in Melbourne, the Basefield Projects... read more...
The Dutch Masters
There is a difference between entertainment and appreciation. Entertainment is a way to pass time, something passive, a way to boost morale, a bag of popcorn... read more...