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
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...