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'Painting. More Painting' Chapter 1

Sam West

Painting is having a bit of a resurgence at the moment. So much so that ACCA is hosting it's first exhibition of contemporary painting in over a decade. ...

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Tamsin Hopkinson 'Te Rama Taka I Te Rangi' / Ruth O'...

In the front space Tamsen Hopkinson looks at the co-existence of Māori and European identity with her work 'Te Rama Taka I Te Rangi' (a light falls f...

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Phoebe Schmidt 'Sweethearts'

A closet Mills and Boon fan

“She is 26 and beautiful, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way but in a minor knock-around key, a blue mood, a slow dance. She is blonde but dark at the roo...

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Takahiko Sugawara 'Repetitive Nature'

Sam West

If you can't find any beauty in repetitive tasks then you're probably a miserable person. Checking out this new mind-bending work by artist Takahiko ...

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An interview Paul Yore

Sabina McKenna

I remember reading an interview with Paul Yore back in 2013 just after a number of works from his ‘Everything’s Fucked’ show were seized by police. I was fas...

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Some top picks from Next Wave

No need to piss in your wetsuits guys, the Next Wave is cresting right behind you. It's all about young people taking risks and making art and they'r...

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Thinking about gender in ‘Grayson Perry: My Pretty L...

Minna Gilligan

As the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's whopper of a show 'Grayson Perry: My Pretty Little Art Career’ comes to a close, so too does our extens...

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Paul Yore solo show

Sam West

It's that ANZAC time of year again which makes it the perfect time to think about all our triumphs and contractions, ya know really take a minute to cons...

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A fan letter to Nost

some graffa bro

Nost! Duuude! fucking sick carrnt. sick drop shadow! And the way that S fuckin gets all round n shit then gets all square n shit at the back! Farrrk. Seriou...

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Your White Night out

Sabina McKenna

White Night is a celebration of creativity in the CBD that lasts from 7pm until 7am. Naturally not everything on the program is equally cool and even if it w...

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Nic Ojae ' A Colourful Order'

Sam West

North Korea only seems to make the news when it's launching suspicious long-range rockets and generally making everyone nervous. These news stories are a...

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Grant Gronewold 'No Visitors'

Sam West

I first noticed Grant Gronwold's art on the back cover of Simon Hanselmann's Life Zone. Life Zone may be a comic about a bored witch, owl, werewolf a...

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Off the Kerb Gallery group show, opening

Nicola Mitchell and Sam West

Off the Kerb are hosting a new group exhibition that might send you down the rabbit hole. In the front gallery Erin Greer assets that 'We Need a Myth'...

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'Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are' opens at Col...

Sam West

'Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are'. As far as we're concerned this show gets by on name alone already. It's the first exhibition to be h...

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Interval presents 'Between a Thought and a Feeling'

Sam West

We're inscribing images with voices all the time (even more-so these days since they upgraded the emojis). But what's gained and lost in these transa...

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Micheal Thomas ‘Night Works’

Sam West

If it’s true photographers “paint with light” then darkness has got to like the oversized brush with stiff bristles. Which makes Michael Thomas&#...

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You will always be wanted by me

Emily Parsons-Lord

Of the 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy, only 9096 are visible to us at night. In the depths of a vault in a mountainside in Switzerland lays a cosmos o...

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Final weeks of the Pierre Huyghe retrospective

Sam West

It makes perfect sense they're showing the work of French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe at The Tarrawarra Museum of Art. To get there most visitors ...

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Turns out all art history lessons should be narrated...

If you've been walking down Flinders Lane since Saturday you'd have noticed some surfaces swimming with images that aren't necessarily grabbing a...

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Matt Prest 'Running Up a Skyscraper'

Sam West

On Sunday we piled into to car and fanged it up the Calder Freeway to see some art at the Goodyear Thunderdome. In the '90s The Thunderdome was the turbo...

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Experiencing Marina Abramović: In Residence

Claire Finneran

Many people pray at the altar of Marina. One of the most influential artists of our time, she is an icon of performance and audience interactivity. So gleami...

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A quick chat with Stephen Baker

Sam West

It takes talent to twist basic shapes and colours into emotive scenarios. Artist and graphic designer Stephen Baker has that talent. The man responsible for ...

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Natalie Abbott 'Tempting Failure' / Nick Huggins 'De...

Sam West

Let's all give each other and ourselves a break shall we? Let's celebrate failure and imperfection. We probably won't ever measure up to our prec...

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Out with the old, in with the NEW15 at ACCA

Kenny Pittock

Hi pal, it’s me, Kenny Pittock, yes that’s right, the Kenny Pittock; the famous artist who did those creepy drawings of people on the train in the NEW14 exhi...

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Seth Searle's Pet Portraits

Sam West

This is Mini Moon Rabbit, she hangs out in the office either sunning herself on her cushion, pawing around our feet for a cuddle or guarding us from the leop...