East Sydney Galleries Opening Season
‘Open season’ is when British people are allowed by law to shoot things in the pursuit of athleticism; ‘opening season’, as the... read more...
Alan Rose, 'Between the Darkness and the Stage'
There’s something fascinating about art like Alan Rose’s, that’s designed to mess with your head. I don’t mean in that important... read more...
Kenzie Larsen, 'It's Just Everything'
Kenzie Larsen apparently believes the adage about how it is busy people who get things done. She makes art and theatre and custom t-shirts. She was a third... read more...
Baden Pailthorpe, 'Lingua Franca'
Sometimes the holiday season can leaves one’s communication skills a little burnt out, so it is interesting and timely that Baden Pailthorpe’s... read more...
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 'Recorders'
Sure, it is by a super-famous dude and has a lot of text on the walls explaining what things are and what they’re about, but Recorders is kind of... read more...
Jim Cooper, 'Family Portraits'
With more than 1000 works in this show, Jim Cooper is evidently blessed with a pretty extensive (concept of) family. His ceramic Family Portraits recreate... read more...
White Rabbit, 'Beyond the Frame'
Billionaire art collectors, right? Can’t live with ‘em (they usually have pretty good security); can’t read ARTFORUM’s hilariously... read more...
Dara Gill, Brown Council and Alex Wisser at MOP
Editorial wisdom decrees that all things need an intro, so, readers of The Thousands, meet MOP. It is a gallery in Chippendale run by people named Ron... read more...
Hitesh Natalwala, 'Kamikaze Wasabi'
Hitesh Natalwala is a complicated guy. His art is intricate, with detailed textures painted, drawn and collaged onto the surfaces of the works. His appropriations... read more...
'Flags' and 'Wilderness of Mirrors'
Alexander Seton’s Flags put up and take on one of the most immediate and most loaded pieces of signification in one of its purest forms. It messes... read more...
Lucas Grogan, 'Private Island | Invite Only'
The blue-and-white palette of Private Island reads like Delftware and like Santorini, and that’s as good a place as any to find your way into it.... read more...
Emma White, 'The Plastic Arts'
In a show at Locksmith Project Space White made keys out of clay. In a body of work entitled Study that was shown in last year’s Primavera she... read more...
After Dark
A lot of the time you just do not know where the night will take you (here please God here) so it seems fitting that a show called After Dark is concerned... read more...
Little Gonzales, POP
A reliable source informs me that as well as the likes of Kanye West, Bjork, Morrissey, Madonna and Amy Winehouse, “there will be lots of colour and... read more...
The 60th Blake Prize Exhibition
I got to cross the ‘Shouting “I AM HAVING A BLAKE PRIZE EMERGENCY!”’item off my Arts Bingo card this morning. One of the reasons for this is that... read more...
Alaska Projects, 'Lorem Ipsum'
I have that awkward kind of YA feeling about Alaska Projects, like it is the cool kids and I am invited to a party at their house and maybe if I get... read more...
Paigatasa Bilums
Damien Minton Gallery is putting on a show work that has been made by the women of the Paigatasa region in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The... read more...
Tom Polo, 'DISAPPOINTED WITH EVERYTHING (It Happens)'
Tom Polo takes the advice, statements, mantras and slogans in his artwork from life: a person overheard on the train, the misspelling on a grocer’s... read more...
Georg Baselitz
At a certain level of fame and eminence artists start to become people whose works you only really expect to read about or see in a reproduction or a museum.... read more...
Jon Campbell, 'Pure Bewdy'
Sometimes it seems like Australia is in the midst of an identity crisis. In our rush to remain contemporary and cosmopolitan, we often ape overseas phenomena... read more...
Bridie Connell, 'Tic Tac Toe'
Bridie Connell is reporting live from Girl World. Hearts are made of candy, unicorns are pooing lip gloss, and ‘XXX’ is a sign-off rather... read more...
After Effect
After Effect is billed by its curator, Japan-living art guy Olivier Krischer, as being an instance of and comprising practices that reflect “a complex,... read more...
Gallery A.S., 'Motion / Pictures'
Galleries, you know? Always in the same place. Except when they are Gallery A.S., in which case they travel around the city taking over landmark venues... read more...
Simon Lovelace, 'NOICON'
Despite the title of this show, Simon Lovelace is a bit of an icon. Or a ‘colourful local character’ at the very least, who lives and works... read more...