The Thousands

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 hand-picked to go great with the art they show. A previous one was a look at media and celebrity and disaster in Darlinghurst’s former Christian Science church; this one takes over the old Paramount Pictures building to consider the interplay of cinema and the visual arts.

Curatorial (and art, writing, design & publishing) whiz Joseph Allen Shea is putting art in different media in the context of movies across different periods and genres. Sci-Fi and Romance and YouTube? Meet embroidery and photography and site-specific painting and neon. It’s a consideration of how the technical and theatrical qualities of the moving image have informed the visual arts, both in how artists create and how audiences look. Get starstruck by the work of the likes of Sam Smith, Soda_Jerk, Anthony Lister and Daniel Johnston, and by the echoes of long-ago visits by the reported likes of Charlton Heston and “that divine Gary Cooper.”