Looby has had ressentiment all his life, and the cause of his debilitating hatred is the art world and pretty much everyone in it.
Tag: Reviews
Castlemainia: making regional arts festivals work
Staging visual art in regional Australia is a complicated business.
Asia Pacific Triennial: immense scope capturing a troubled world
The logic of making a show like the APT9 seems to be that “we do it this way because this is the way we do it.”
The Beehive
For her ambitious documentary project, Begg uses a few different approaches to tell the story…
Lost in Space
Spaces create stories. In the late 1970s, Sydney’s underground walkways and parking stations were the places where you could experience the stark, modernist spaces of the era’s science fiction movies.
Archibald 2017: a cup of tea and a good lie down
The tension between traditional portraits and works that sit at the limits of what most people consider a portrait is the friction that fires up the whole engine of the prize.
Vernon Ah Kee: This Is Not History
It would be a mistake to consider the work of Vernon Ah Kee as purely political in motivation.
John Olsen: Grand Old Man
The saying goes that the only difference between a radical and a conservative is 10 years.
Archibald 2016: Typically Debatable
One of the lessons of the Archibald prize is that it’s impervious to criticism.
Head Shots
Cindy Sherman’s work isn’t as orthodox in its theory or approach as its historical categorisation might suggest – it’s far more organically alive, exploring the grotesque and the uncanny, the monstrously feminine, and the comedic worlds of haute couture.
