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Bradd Westmoreland—wet
by Jonathan Nichols In January 2009 Bradd Westmoreland painted this crazy huge frieze titled War & peace around three walls of a small studio space I’m attached to in Fitzroy as part of a very...
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Konnichiwa Osaka
by Jonathan Nichols Osaka feels like a very cool city, cosmopolitan. I often found myself thinking, any minute the locals will just break into something I can understand, but of course it didn’t...
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Good behaviour
by Amita Kirpalani In preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 4 million households in Beijing received etiquette guides which focused on things like how to queue correctly, that when standing in...
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If you can’t say something nice
by Suzette Wearne ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’, said Edmund Burke. Recently it occurred to me that this famous aphorism might have come to Burke on a...
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Ryoji Ikeda
by Amita Kirpalani I was reading about Ryoji Ikeda’s test pattern (No 5) as being perfect for iPhone documentation. How depressing. But it’s true, see my snapshots below. Described as ‘a system that...
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Funny games
by Pip Wallis The lingering stench of propriety and duty at the Heathmont Scout Hall was nearly as strong as the snags Kiron Robinson was cooking out the front. The framed colour photo of the Queen,...
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Cool car park in Freo: Australian Centre for Concrete Art
by Trevelyan Clay The Australian Centre for Concrete Art is mostly 2D paintings on walls and not sculpted concrete as the name may suggest—big formal paintings on the sides of houses and shops in the...
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Constant loss: ‘Third/Fourth: Melbourne artist-facilitated biennale’, and the...
by Quentin Sprague To be honest, I thought that the NGV’s current show about the 1980s in the Melbourne art scene—Mix tape 1980s: appropriation, subculture, critical style—only transmitted the barest...
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Writing mail, writing class: ‘The big east’
by Lisa Radford It was kind of an awkward week or so. At the opening for Simon Zoric’s exhibition What I can and can’t do and what I will and won’t do, after being kind of startled by his carved wooden...
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Chua Mia Tee’s Singapore
by Jonathan Nichols Singaporean artist Chua Mia Tee’s Epic poem of Malaya (1955) is a history painting of the sort we rarely see anymore—so many aspirations and doubts in the same frame. The image is...
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