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Home is where the art is
A hut by Sarah CrowEST. Featured in Craft Victoria’s ‘Magic Mountain’ exhibition. When Edmund de Waal released The Pot Book, fans gathering at the growing intersection of craft and art were rewarded. A...
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Everything you ever loved is hated by someone else
Photo credit: Bosc d’Anjou It was time for a letter to the editor, wrote Lisa Hirsch. The New York Times Magazine had neglected to include any classical musicians in its audio collage of musicians who...
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After the gas stations: The art of the artist’s book
Ed Ruscha’s ‘Twentysix Gasoline Stations’ When Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations in 1962, the book was returned to the artist, marked ‘Rejected by the Library of Congress’. Ruscha has...
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Canberra: so hot right now
Bert Flugelman’s sculpture Cones 1982, in the National Gallery’s Sculpture Garden. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Australia In 2010 the Fairfax press wondered if Brisbane was Australia’s new...
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Artsy and the real world
Removing my shoes in a cavernous, dimly lit room before quietly entering the white-tiled, monastic-like space that houses Monet’s Water Lilies series at the Chichu Art Museum in Japan. Visiting MoMA...
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Military Vision: Embracing accelerated change
Photo credit: maHidoodi For artists, the accelerated rate of technological change presents an interesting conundrum. It has always been difficult to make statements about technology that will maintain...
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Art in the writer’s room
Benjamin Lichtenstein, Catch Part 1 & 2, 45 x 35cm, 2012. From ‘Cereal Dust’ at Neospace When Roald Dahl was a young writer, he would sell his stories to the New Yorker and with his fee, purchase a...
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Putting on the Ritz: Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion at NGV
In the 1920s, the corseted curves of the Belle Époque silhouette gave way for a new image of femininity. The flapper girl, with her bobbed hair and boyish figure and shimmery, sequined dresses, became...
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Freedom and asylum: The photography of Andy Drewitt
After 20 years of working in the media, Melbourne photographer Andy Drewitt grew tired of the way asylum seekers were generally portrayed. For years people had come to Australia seeking freedom from...
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Renewing the Streets: Newcastle’s DIY photography revival
Photo credit: Mark Wojcik At the Volume: Another Art Book Fair in Sydney last month – a kind of glorified zine fair for the high art crowd – I stumbled across a project spread across a single table...
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