Category Archives: Art
Art, Comment
Who is this Crumb guy, anyway?
I first remember hearing the name Robert Crumb in late high school. It was 2003, and I’d gone to see the Harvey Pekar biopic American Splendor. At the time, I was unfamiliar with Crumb – a thin, gawky man in a straw boater and Coke-bottle glasses who … Read more
Art, Books, Issue Six
Judging a book by its cover: Noir narratives in Kill Your Darlings
When we first dreamed up the concept of Kill Your Darlings, we had a clear vision for the aesthetic – film noir. Svelte, shadowy, 1940s kitsch and costume, the hint of danger. A story was integral to the covers – the characters tell their own story, and it was narrative that progressed with the changing season. Read more
Art
This cube knows Shakespeare: the Virtual Reality of Google Art Project
There’s an old computer graphics/Virtual Reality quandary named, Aesop-like (or maybe after an awful British folk dish), the ‘Teapot in a Stadium’ problem, detailing the difficulty of creating realistic 3D imagery where there’s a variance of scale: to create a decent computer fake of a teapot in … Read more
Art
“I’m not a guide, we don’t have guides”: MONANISM, Opening exhibition of MONA, Tasmania
Approaching the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Berriedale, Tasmania via the highway is a little like the establishing shot in action movies of the villain’s island lair: implanted into a headland, a great clot of concrete gridding and glowing, ochre rust. The museum is … Read more
Art
The View from Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism
If you’re in Melbourne, today’s the last day you can catch The View from Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism at the Next Wave Festival. Curated by Victoria Bennett and Clare Rae, the project pairs eight writers with eight artists to examine contemporary feminist ideas. The works explore … Read more
Art
How do you document a scene? Melbourne / Brisbane: punk, art and after
Image: Performance by The Boys Next Door with Jenny Watson’s “An original oil painting (black & white) (For Nick Cave)” at the Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne’, 1979, photograph courtesy John Nixon In Martine Syms’ Bad at Sports review of North Drive Press #5 – an annual art publication … Read more
Art
Permeating boundaries: The art of Issey Miyake
Prithvi Varatharajan went to a lecture about the Issey Miyake fashion label, presented by its creative director Dai Fujiwara. The event was hosted by RMIT as part of the 2010 L’Oréal Fashion Week. The lecture covered Issey Miyake’s groundbreaking design concepts, including ‘A Piece of Cloth’. In … Read more
Art
Liquid Desire
The Salvador Dalí exhibition, ‘Liquid Desire’, is in its final weeks at the National Gallery of Victoria. The retrospective, which includes some of Dalí’s earliest work (completed at the age of fifteen), cleverly shows the evolution of the artist’s distinctive style. Texts accompanying the artworks provide … Read more
