is a lump of bronze worth $104m?

You’d want to be absolutely sure this isn’t one of an edition, wouldn’t you? Remembering that bronze casting is essentially a reproductive technology… See the story here (with a great photo). Thanks to Amanda for the link.

neology – the Graduate Season of 2010 kicks off

Season 1 opens with a reception at 6 pm on Wednesday 3 February at 6.00pm, with the Exhibition continuing until Friday 12 February

Glenn Carter (MVA, Glass)
Untitled, 2009
cast and stained glass
11 x 7 x 3 cm

Diana Johnston (Grad Dip, Painting)
Brown Painting, 2009
oil on plywood
60 x 60 cm

Jill Loupekine (MAVA, Printmedia and Drawing)
Untitled, 2009
embossed paper and powdered graphite on BFK Rives paper
75.6 x 106.5 cm

sitting on secrets

mel_chair_668Here’s a work Now they are again no secret, 2009, from the Art & Language (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden) latest show at Lisson Gallery. The late Charles Harrison speaks about the back-to-the-wall “ghostly devotee” who inhabits these “chairs”… Read the press release (if you wish) on ArtDaily… The specific origins of such “secrecy” is to be found here and here

Manda

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Amanda Stuart (PhD, Sculpture) gets noticed in the SMH… Goodness knows what “unthemed but curated” means? Sounds a bit…

Issues around blogging and critical discussion

raised by Maya on Side by Side.

Gladwell, Afghanistan, abstraction

“My interest was really the experience of the soldier as a thinking and feeling subject. I’m interested in how bodies move through space and the capacity of bodies to perform in certain situations. Particularly how it relates to landscape. These are issues I’m always interested in. That informed the way I was dealing with that experience in Afghanistan.” Read the full story in The Art Newspaper, and…

Now, if I want to be known as an iconoclast, perhaps I should just…

smash the picture plane?

Relax! (it’s all you can do)

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see the story about this Frank Lloyd Wright suite on ArtDaily, and drool…

over the moon

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Jan Hogan, PhD, in relaxation mode… Congratulations!

Maya’s blog gets listed

in (yes) The Weekly Qualitative Report! As it should be…