Anything, as long as you look good holding it - Look - Melbourne Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Melbourne's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Melbourne's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Penthouse Mouse 2010
So I've been lurking about behind the Melbourne Club as usual, trying to jimmy that door open, get into the man garden. (Matter of time, granddad.) Meanwhile, I can tell you about some goings on in the multi-gender area of Coates Lane.
Penthouse Mouse, that bastion of LMFF's ever-expanding cultural program, is back.
'Where the Wild Things Are', an exhibition by Mike O'Meally
Big, beautiful, behind-the-scenes images of Where The Wild Things Are. The pictures are by Mike O'Meally, a professional skate photographer and friend of Spike Jonze's Girl Skateboards team. Large format prints and limited-run decks will be auctioned off with all proceeds going to help kids with leukaemia.
Finding Space
Sure, the Midsumma festival gets rid of everyone who comes to Melbourne in Grand Prix season to straighten out their gay son, but it has much more to offer than that. For instance, Jason Lingard is curating a mega group show of installation and photography, opening at the Carlton Hotel on Tuesday.
MONA FOMA and Lauren Brincat
It's hard to say where this story starts. Perhaps it began the day David Walsh first walked into a casino. For me, it started when I passed that big billboard on the corner of La Trobe and Queen last week and saw Lauren Brincat perched at a 12-foot-high drum kit. It was no weirder than the three-storey-high bunny lady with her tits out that was up there before, but it was better even than boobs.
OWN Books presents 581c-Volume 1 by Thobias Fäldt
Creatures of the dark might want to make their way down to Swensk tonight. Better yet, you could lurk down the lane a bit, facing the other way, playing with something brightly coloured. That way, you will really enter the spirit of Thobias Fäldt's work.
Though taken almost exclusively in pitch black conditions, Fäldt's photos have a brightness to them that seem at odds with all that inkiness.
Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone
Q: How many nerdy girls does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: Don't know, don't care.
Just kidding. A few people care. More importantly, when nerdy girls grow up and blossom into cluey, weirdly intimidating alterna-hotties with amazing taste in music, I care. When you think about it, who doesn't love a girl who is equally comfortable talking about Studio Ghibli movies as she is scoring pingers at four in the morning?
Gorker Gallery presents Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone, a new body of work by NZ artist Kelly Thompson.
Mark Drew, C-90
I've often wondered how NWA's Straight Outta Compton found its way into the Millicent public library in the first place. Gangsta fairies, perhaps? Needless to say, I was drawn to it like a moth to the flame. And even more needless to say, the tape was hella overdue when I returned it. You think I paid the late fees? Hell no.
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