A Celebration of the Visual Arts: Art Month Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | March 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
On a cool overcast March morning, I navigated the streets of the heavily residential Elizabeth Bay neighborhood to find Michael Reid’s gallery and talk to the owner about his role as co-creator (with Vasili Kaliman of Kaliman Gallery) of Art Month Sydney. The initiative, now in its first year, celebrates the visual arts in Sydney [...]
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Scott Elk in Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | March 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
Billowing on banners, printed on posters and featured in multiple venues around Sydney, the artwork of Scott Elk is enjoying great exposure, and for good reason. The Sydney-born artist’s illustrations mix media from photography to screen prints, from design elements to typography. The modern amalgams instantly come across as multi-layered works reflecting a depth of [...]
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Showcasing Talent at the Australian Centre for Photography
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | February 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
Since I arrived in Sydney, arts-minded people of all walks of life have been pointing me towards the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP). For over 37 years, the ACP has been exhibiting works of both Australian and international photographers. My expectations were thus set reasonably high when I visited for the first time, for the [...]
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Where can you find a good motel? Report from Baja
By guest writer | February 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
Another great travelog from my brother, Barry–Libby
It took your intrepid travelers four nights in three countries to find a decent motel room. It was hard, we covered a lot of ground, but we persevered and in the end did it.
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Retelling Histories at Artspace in Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | February 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
Since the early 1980s, Artspace Visual Arts Centre has established itself as a centre for residency-based contemporary installation art both by Australian and international artists. The three installations currently on display at Artspace only reinforces that fact. Each of the works serves as a rich deconstruction of history, exposing multiple layers of events past. With [...]
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Cancelled–Alba Pistolesi and luck
By max mulhern | February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
As luck would have it I went to see the work of a young French artist named Alba Pistolesi.
Alba is , in her words, obsessed with cancelling the usefulness of objects as well as with table legs and their standard 72cm length. A week earlier she had shown me a large wooden die and a faggot [...]
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Lynette Wallworth at the Sydney Festival
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
PREFACE: I write to you from Sydney, Australia, my location for the next 6 months where I am trying my hand at a new adventure before pursuing my MA in Art History in the Fall. I am discovering a whole new art scene and deciphering a completely new national discourse. Below is my first Aussie [...]
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Pothole challenge and two-sloth night–report from Costa Rica
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Post by Barry Rosof
My brother Barry and his wife Louise have fled Edmonton for the winter (good move) and are lolling in warmer climes–well not exactly lolling. Louise has traveling feet, and Barry is a serious hiker who is happy to accompany her on adventures. Here’s Barry’s report on the challenges of touring Costa Rica: [...]
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Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain
By max mulhern | January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Chris Ofili mid career survey at the Tate Britain reveals a sexually charged and scatalogical body of work reminiscent of Gilbert and George’s The Naked Shit Pictures. This survey contains overlooked sensations and under-exploited materials. The energies driving the early works have been tamed and the latest works are in an amorphous state of [...]
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Raymonde April times four, in Montreal
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
To experience Raymonde April’s current exhibits is to experience the underpinnings of process, display and the creation of meaning. Equivalences 1-4, a not-so-subtle nod to Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalent series, showcases four different bodies of work — 3 photo collections and 1 video work — in three different spaces in Montreal. April, who was awarded the [...]
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