City Basement Books

Online shopping: for or against? I, personally, am for. Insert this into your vocabulary: “Ooooh”, “Aahhh”, then “Add to...

If Sid Vicious and 19th century French Artist Camile Pissarro ever came face to face, they surely would have enjoyed a few shots...

Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol's diaries "were not a worthy epitaph" for his life's work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity...

See a penny pick it up, all day long you will have good luck. Or you could simply order a serving of French toast and all day long your tummy will be...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

Isn’t genre a stupid word? Say it over and over and soon it begins to sound like the name of a particularly sleazy French uncle. We here at ThreeThousand...

No longer must we torture our bowels. No longer must we hide away in shame and secrecy. No longer must we wake every morning, look at ourselves in the...

Birdwatching is an uncommon pastime amongst the young. But, nevertheless, it is a pastime with countless rewards. Sit long enough by a fencepost, for...

Sometimes Melbourne wants to be New York so badly it's embarrassing. The worst part is the way every vaguely ‘serious' periodical wants to be The...

Just because something is 3-dimensional doesn’t mean that it shouldn't be protected and preserved. The 3-D frame designed by Hiroshi Kajimoto...

Nick Mangan's sculptural works are molecular, elemental and intricate. They are created from natural and man-made materials such as wood, bone, crystal...

Seven video artists climb seven flights of stairs this Monday night. You could probably order seven drinks, drink them in seven minutes and then slur...

If one thing is for sure the tattoos in Home Made Tattoos Rule didn’t come from bubblegum packets. As a 96-page photographic tribute to both...

A couch, sleeping bag, lamp, guitar, laptop and a hermit crab tank. These are Ian Wadley's belongings furnishing Bus Gallery's tiniest nook. After a...

There's no longer any reason to be Jalouse of the Kiwis and the Melburnians, because now you can shop at mag nation online.

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It would be a shame for Tom Vek to be consumed and spat out like a liquorice jellybean by the hype-machine that is inevitably about to engulf him. Vek...

The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin...

Everybody has a couple of beaters in the cupboard. But did you know you can actually bring those fargones back to life with a little elbow grease? What...

Torpedo, the first offering from independent publishing house Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins, is very pretty. And, unlike a human, it gets prettier...

You’d think that Stefan Marx was a jaded sort, with a design platform called ‘Lousy Livincompany’. When in fact Cheeky is more...