Art Life Podcast Holiday Special! The winner of The Art Life Vote for Best Exhibition 2006 announcement... Other Best Shows; The Worst Show of 2006 - do we dare go there?; Johnny Cash - 'Rowboat'; Outdoor Art - what's the deal? Sculpture by The Sea, TropFest, Festival of Sydney... Why Sydney isn't Stuttgart; Big hART's 'Junk Theory' reduces us to tears; Johnny Cash - 'Solitary Man'; Pick of the summer shows for Sydney at the MCA and the Art Gallery of NSW, Penrith Gallery & Lewers Bequest; What's On in Tokyo & Reykjavik; A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - will The Art Life return in 2007? And if so, in what form? Johnny Cash - 'The Mercy Seat'.
NSW University College of Fine Arts - end of year show; cute puppies, lovely ponies - the work of Vivienne To, Melissa Mai. Figuration - what's it all about? Skills to pay the bills; National Art School vs COFA - why must they fight? Resin Dogs 'Ra-Fizzla'; Art Life deny 'junket' charge; Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane - why $100 million can't hide the fear! The Reels 'Quasimodo's Dream' ; What's On - 2006 The Year in Art @ SH Ervin Gallery, The Everlasting World of Martin Sharpe - decades in the making; 'Bass In The City' - feel the old man's carbunkles!
Monika Tichacek's 'controversial' Anne Landa Award winning video 'The Shadowers'; Tony Schwensen and the big medicine ball; Daniel Crook's time bending video work and Philip Brophy's haircut and his busted installation; Kristian Burford's 'Melissa and Robert' at Sullivan & Strumpf; is it real, too real or not real enough - expressing yourself... neither sexy nor fun... RJD2 - 'Ghostwriter'; Robert Hughes memoir 'Things I Didn't Know' - the minutiae of his life from childhood, the 1960s, Etruscan pottery and getting plastered with Noelene Brown in Kings Cross; what's on and what's happening - Dick Watkins, Rachel Scott and Gallery 9. Fink [feat. Frank Chickens] 'We Are Ninja'.
Image Credit: Tony Schwensen, 'Weighty Weight Wait,' 2006, videoperformance, 3 channel installation, 2006, 11 hours duration, courtesy the artist.
Hello Pacific Northwest !!! Alex Kershaw's 'A Lake Without Water', - 'Tomorrow Again' group show curated by Scott Donovan and 'Elastic Boundaries' by Michelle Thieunissen @ Artspace. Tough guys and tougher talk - 'Two Birds with One Stone' - Brendan Lee's install; @ The Art Gallery of NSW; Ken Nordine's 'My Baby'; Koji Ryui all white on white, drinking straws and a ginormous paddle pop stick @ Sarah Cottier Gallery; James Angus - where do they make baloons? @ the Museum of Contemporary Art. Handsome Boy Modelling School 'Metaphysical'; Dr. Bernice Lach - all those cermacists like a nice frock @ Damien Minton; POLITICAL CONTENT WARNING - University of Western Sydney final year show, maybe ever! - Anne Landa Award - who will win - MORE POLITICS! Thank you.
Podcast Image: James Angus, Rhino. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Dobell Drawing Prize - too good for it's own good? Art Heaven.... Martin Sharp & Peter Kingston's 'Notes from The River Caves' @ The Art Gallery of NSW - hippy freakout; Juan Davila retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art - not a stupid painter; Del Kathryn Barton - 'Please. Don't. Stop.' @ Kaliman Gallery; what's coming up, what's happened - SynCity - 30 Years of Sample Culture; Fischli & Weiss @ The Tate Modern. MOP - methods of production... Win A Prize!
[Podcast Image: Del Kathryn Barton, The Last Girl, 2006. Acrylic, gouache, watercolour and pen on polyester, 120x80cms. Courtesy of the artist and Kaliman Gallery.]
In which we discuss exhibitions by Tim Storrier at Sherman Galleries, his dog, the desert and the mongrel; Noel McKenna at Darren Knight Gallery, his walks through Sydney, maps and memorials to memory; Lee Scratch Perry's "Version A"; Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Aaron Seeto, decorated potatoes etc; what's opeining this week in exhibitions around the world; DJ Nesbitt's mash up of David Essex and the Heroes of Tuva.