'Jungle Fever'
Everybody loves the jungle! Except for Vietnam veterans maybe, and those whom The Phantom imprisoned in his Skull Cave in the deep woods of Bengali, and this Panda - ever since the incident.
Well, let's just say that - at the very least - the ladies of Glitzern love the jungle, which is why they've commissioned a jungle-themed exhibition for fashion week.
'Surrender' at Lamington Drive
For some reason when I first heard the name of The Jacky Winter Group's new gallery, Lamington Drive, I thought of that regal driveway in Eyes Wide Shut that leads Tom Cruise to that mansion where they have all those orgies. But of course ‘drive', when it's put with the word lamington, means fundraiser.
A probing interview with Jeremy Wortsman
PM: Lamington Drive is a pretty weird name for a gallery.
JW: Jeremy Wortsman is an even weirder name, so that wasn't an option.
PM: Why did you name it after a primary school fundraiser?
JW: Well when I first heard it I thought it was a street name, which reflects the community aspect of the agency as well as its Australia-centric mission.
Pinku Eiga
Japanese dude: Oh hello, can I please have a DVD of locally produced soft porn?
Japanese porn purveyor: There it is man. Over there next to Astro Boy.
Dude: No. It's not.
Japanese porn purveyor: Yeh. It is.
Dude: But there's no pubic hair on the cover! I'm looking for genitals here.
Japanese porn purveyor: You have to imagine the genitals.
Nice Box
Fort Heart Co (get it, ‘for the art') presents an exhibition tonight with the frankly incendiary title of 'Nice Box'. More than thirty artists, designers and illustrators will be exhibiting at No Vacancy Gallery, the city's newest art space in (weird, we know) QV.
What will they be exhibiting? Information is scarce on the ground, but each will be responding to the idea of a box.
The Universe of Keith Haring
I always thought, in my wisdom, that Keith Haring went to Collingwood Technical College. This is partly true. I mean (like my Dad ‘went to MIT' and got me a t-shirt), Keith went to Collingwood Tech and painted the wall behind the Tote when he was visiting from New York in 1984.
Though you may not be as patently ignorant as I, this doco is a good chance to brush up on the legacy of a painter, graffiti artist, sculptor and designer who was at the heart of New York's ‘80s street culture.
Neverness, Part 1
I trust you are familiar with NowNow, ThreeThousand's sophisticated, worldly cousin? You may have spotted him at a Right Angle family get together, propped against a windowsill sipping at a snifter of port, calmly snapping off the odd shot on his Contax while ThreeThousand gets wasted on fruit punch and plays charades with the kids.
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