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All Ricky All The Time
Talk about suffering for art. Fabric maker John Kaldor had to break a golden rule when he took on the role of commissioner for the Australian exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Having declared before...
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Saluti dalla centrale del "blag" di arte!
Per i nostri sins ci hanno dato un'altra missione e quando finito, non desidereremmo mai un altro... Quello è di destra, SQUADRA la vita di arte che è sul blag internazionale espresso a Venezia! Non...
View ArticleAll In The Numbers
First, the bad news. Our planned updates from Venice never eventuated because of a number of logistical reasons. The most pressing problem was the Serene Republic's lack of net cafes, the second...
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Venice Reflux: Doctorin’ The Tardis
From John Kelly... Entering the TARDIS - an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space , I go walkabout within the monolith that contains The Meaning of Life. I race across time eating Mad...
View ArticleJerry Saltz, He Say No
"The best thing I’ve seen so far is the focused survey of the work of Bruce Nauman in — ta-da! — the U.S. pavilion. There’s a gallery of Nauman’s bronze hand sculptures and another with hanging heads...
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Off The Rails
The paltry offerings from Australian art critics sojourning in Italy for the 2009 Venice Biennale have been thus far the usual predictable fare - pithy putdowns for art they have no time for, offering...
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Warning: Porn Inside
"Except for Ken Yonetani’s Sweet Barrier Reef, a rather dull comment on the effects of consumerism on nature, the Australian off-site project Once Removed curated by Felicity Fenner offers a...
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The Golden Thread: Hany Armanious at the Venice Biennale
John Kelly feels a song coming on - and it goes a little like this... Round like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down...
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Venice Postcard: The Vernissage is the Greatest Work of Art
Watch your head, try to squeeze through that crowd, where's the art? No that a bin! Does this pavilion have wi-fi? Jump that queue, “excuse me do you know who he is?”,Flash your press pass, grab a...
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Fiona Hall for Venice 2015
Fiona Hall, at the beach... To the surprise of probably no one, Fiona Hall has been announced as the artist who will represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2015. A seven member panel headed by...
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