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Xiao Lu retrospective goes beyond the myth
Thirty years ago in Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year, contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu made her artistic debut by firing a shotgun at her installation Dialogue.
Tiarney Miekus
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The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War
An exhibition with a focus on how Tasmanian Aboriginals were depicted by colonial-era artists during the time of The Black War in the 1800s, The National Picture reveals the lasting impact visual art can have on our understanding of history.
Briony Downes
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Sarah crowEST: Soft Eyes Dub Wise
Sherbet pink, spray painted white, scribbles and muted text are some of the colours and images that dance across the canvases of Sarah crowEST’s recent paintings.
Zara Sigglekow
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Motion Pictures
Japanese artist Takehito Koganezawa joins Mira Gojak in taking an expanded look at drawing, setting it free with film and movement.
Andrew Stephens
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Obsession: Devil in the detail
Superficially at least, one thing that seems to link the wildly disparate photos, drawings, videos, paintings, sculpture and prints in Obsession: Devil in the detail – across both time and genres – is time-consuming labour.
Tracey Clement
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Toby Ziegler: Your Shadow Rising
To enter Toby Ziegler’s solo exhibition at Mona, Your Shadow Rising, visitors must draw back a curtain and step into the gallery space.
Briony Downes
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Interview
Interview: Leonard Brown
Leonard Brown calls his residence in West Ipswich, Novo Poustinya, or ‘new hermitage’, a name usually bestowed on remote Russian Orthodox monastic communities.
Varia Karipoff
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Christian Marclay: The Clock
The Clock, 2010, by Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay, is a 24-hour video installation montaged from untold hours of cinematic footage.
Varia Karipoff
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Open Window
Open Window, an exhibition by the artist collective Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn at West Space in Melbourne, consisted of altered interior architecture, sculptures and wall works.
Zara Sigglekow
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Gabriella and Silvana Mangano: There is no there
Quiet and considered movement and gesture pervade Gabriella and Silvana Mangano’s lyrical, mainly video based, practice.
Zara Sigglekow
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Rosie Hastie: Pendulous
Tasmanian artist Rosie Hastie exploits the photographic medium like an illusionist. To create her work, Hastie combines skillfully placed lighting with wads of crumpled paper to produce the impression of a fantastical landscape.
Briony Downes
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Opinion
I, For One, Welcome Our Celebrity Overlords
“Celebrities are our sun gods and we don’t really need to see them brought down to our level by ill-advised forays into art. I, for one, accept my celebrity overlords but I’d prefer them to stay where they are.”
Andrew Frost
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