Issue 7
| August 4, 2008
Featuring
Judy Millar – Painting for Venice
Also Inside
Jeffery Smart
Julia Deville
Hernan Bas
What
Kill Pixie
Dani Marti
Xing Danwen
Plus Essay, Reviews and News
Essay: Elizabeth Farrelly
Art in the fast lane
Perspective: Steve Lopes Interview with the late James Gleeson
Opinion: Art prizes will ruin you
Perspective: Joe Frost
Conversations from the Field III
Technical: Tools of the trade
Review: Horace Trenerry at AGNSW
Reg Mombassa
Must See Exhibitions
Final Word: Gina Bruce
Genuine reflection, the quiet, unresolved, sometimes uncomfortable kind, feels increasingly rare. We are seldom invited to sit with what we do not yet understand. This...
As the title Westwood | Kawakubo suggests, the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) latest fashion exhibition plays to the idea that these two titans of...
Operating within a commercial framework yet not representing artists, Project8 allows for a greater sense of curatorial freedom, privileging thematic and carefully considered exhibitions over...
Ron Mueck’s shockingly alive sculptures hit us at many points along the pathway from birth to death. But it’s more than just mortal decay that...
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light draws on more than 300 photographs and photomedia from the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) collection and the...
Motet Fail, 2026, reshapes Artist Run Initiative, West Space into an immersive backgammon board that operates as a site of reflection, encounter, and quiet concert....
Carvings have been made for all time by Aurukun men. However, the more recent innovation to emerge from Aurukun are paintings. Vested in Country and...
A stone’s throw from the Illawarra escarpment at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the introduction to Draper’s ecosphere is a gathering of rainbow forms which, as an...
In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and...