Dandy shandy - 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.
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Art is great! There are 26 reasons to buy it. But it is too oft assumed that people want to be near artists. Not true! Why do you think they invented auctions? So Jeffrey Dietch could gain control of your inheritance? No! Artists can be smelly. Some of them have tattoos. They all really like Slavoj Zizek for some reason, and, given the chance, they'll sell their own arses for $1200.
Risographica!
Lamington Drive opens a group show of Risograph prints tonight and, if everyone who's talking about going actually turns up, Jeremy Wortsman will be very glad he bought these Dharma overalls because he'll be sneaking bottles into other people's bins all weekend. He is very busy talking into his Madonna headset today, so we emailed Stuart Geddes, the guy who printed the whole exhibition on his Risograph.
'til you drop: shopping - a Melbourne history
shop: v.i. to visit shops. I know this because I looked it up in the Collins Empire dictionary I own as a result of my friend's penchant for shopping in places they sell old dictionaries. The lady down the road from me likes to shop by picking up every single watermelon in the supermarket and then buying a grapefruit.
Oslo Davis, This Annoying Life
Oslo Davis and I have developed an acrimonious working relationship over the years, which I will not attempt to conceal in this interview marking the opening of his first solo exhibition at Lamington Drive. Oslo is the straight-talking everyman. The guy who is watching when you are kind of being a dick, the chap who tells the truth about life when no-one else will.
Last Tuesday Society, The Plagiarism Edition
Listen, Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Whoa oh, oh. Oooh craps. (Ever since we got a copyright lawyer in here, writing stuff has been a real date with the downers.) Hang-on. Okay. When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go, Jesus, all bloody right.
Tonight's Last Tuesday Society is 'The Plagiarism Edition', hosted by Richard 'Dick Dastardly' Higgins (pictured waist up) and featuring artists such as Bron Batten, The Suitcase Royale, The List Operators, The Caravan of Love and Thomas Henning (The Black Lung) - ripping stuff right off.
Why freak? Don't freak ‘cos there's still time! Mmm Kay?
If e-Bay makes you excited and you would like to translate that feeling towards the local visual produce, then this is auction for you. The bidding for works exhibited in Y3K'S fundraiser show is taking place as we speak (or read). Bidding? Yes! It started on Wednesday but don't freak! There is still time.
MIFF - Arts and Minds
Appearances can be deceptive. Or at the very least, seductive. As a photographer, Anton Corbijn made images of rock stars - then he made a movie about a rock star (Control) to become a star himself. Documentary isn't always a mirror to reality. Sometimes it's a mirror to another mirror. To another mirror to another.
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