Issue 5
| March 2, 2008
News
Brief
Deadlines
Profiles
Matthew Hopkins
Kushana Bush
eX de Medici
David Fairbairn
Viv Miller
Steve Bowers
Alick Tipoti
Jitish Kallat
Karl Wiebke
Anna Hoyle
Paula Rego
Karel Nel
Richard Woldendorp
Feature
The Art of Noise: Artists as Musicians
Process
Perspective: Steve Lopes
Substance Abuse
Perspective: Joe Frost
Conversations from the Field
Technical: The People behind the Paint
Book Review: Irena Sibley
Books
Reg Mombassa: Our Daily Bread
Review: Joe Furlonger and Jun Chen
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Essay: Philip Wolfhagen
Must See Exhibitions
Final Word: Jazmina Cininas


Nike Savvas: Purple Haze presents intimate screen prints and immersive large-scale installation and video work by Savvas from 2005–2026, each evocative of different places and...
Although physically he is of modest stature, Zofrea has devoted much of his life to grand projects that have been conceived and executed on a...
Through a multidisciplinary collaboration between Rotterdam-based curators, architect Paul Cournet of CLOUD and artist-designer Sabine Marcelis of Studio Sabine Marcelis, the exhibition explores the interplay...
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension...
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition...
No artist creates in isolation. Every painting carries traces of the conversations, places and histories that shaped it, preserving within its surface a particular moment...
The weekend markets at Fairfield Showground have been one of Western Sydney’s great institutions for more than fifty years. Fresh fruit and vegetables, children’s clothes,...
In recent times, Yorgos Lanthimos has shifted toward photography, noting in a Guardian interview, 2026, that he needs respite, saying, “it might be a couple...
In Australia, political cartoons were altered by several events during the 1960s: the arrival of Les Tanner’s (1927‒2001) instinctual wit at The Bulletin, Bruce Petty’s...