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For stats freaks
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a 2008 report on Arts and Culture in Australia.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4172.0
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 10 November 2008Good Art RSS Feeds
Creative Economy Online http://www.creative.org.au/
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 10 November 2008Videoz
Gallery 101 on Collins st in Melbourne has a live rooftop web-cam
http://www.101collins.com.au/rooftop.php
Comment made 14 years ago on Thursday 06 November 2008Image software
ReadWriteWeb has a good article outlining some software you can use to resize images. Article here
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 22 September 2008No Vacancy Gallery Presents: Far & Away.
Dreamy
Comment made 14 years ago on Friday 19 September 2008Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Purple monkeys would not make very good dishes.
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 10 September 2008Stefanie Herr
Please describe this pic Stefanie, I can’t figure out if it is flat or not.
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 18 June 2008Furniture Art
chandelier made from recycled coffee-stirrers
Museum of Counterfeit Art
{{pm me for permission to counterfeit one of my works, I need more gallery exposure}}
Museum of counterfeit art
Posted by David Pescovitz, May 19, 2008 10:20 AM | boing boing
The Museu del Falso at the University of Salerno in Southern Italy showcases counterfeit artworks, including nearly perfect forgeries of Warhol, Mario Schifano, and other high-priced artists. The museum’s supplier is the Carabinieri, the country’s military police, who have collected more than 60,000 fakes in raids across the country over the last few years. From Smitsonian:
Images Museumfake-1 (Salvatore) Casillo, the museum’s director, is an author and sociologist who has spent 20 years studying counterfeits of all kinds. The museum’s mission is “to analyze the evolution of forgery, from technique to organization,” he says, “and to give visitors the opportunity to see firsthand how the counterfeiters carry out their deception.” Unlike the works that hang on its walls, the Museum of Fakes resembles no other. Located in the basement of a university building, it is both storeroom and gallery. Phony Grecian urns line shelves while some paintings are still packed in brown paper (they can’t be displayed until courts have dealt with the cases, which can take years). Other objects are filed in metal cabinets or displayed on the walls. Scattered around the place are bundles containing trickster tools of trade: paints, canvases, chemicals, anything used to make the piece look authentic… In an ironic twist of fate, some master forgers are now getting respect from the art establishment they challenged and, in some cases, convulsed. London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has a separate gallery devoted to first-class fakes and forgeries. Other respected museums around the world are giving the counterfeiters—long the object of public fascination—shows of their own. Comment made 14 years ago on Tuesday 20 May 2008Writer Peter Ho Davies speaks in Melbourne
Cnr Bourke & Swanston Streets
Melbourne 3000
(03) 9662 4699
email:
readers@readersfeast.com.au
6.15 for 6.30pm, Monday 26 May 2008
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
$15.00pp $12.50 conc* unreserved seating
Pre-paid Bookings (03) 9662 4699
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Reader’s Feast Booksellers
invite you to hear our Writer at the Convent
Peter Ho Davies
in conversation with Jason Steger
“The Welsh girl is a perfectly constructed novel -
captivating, thought provoking, a setting and characters
that are so easily imagined, and an ending that is the only
possible conclusion to this most memorable work."
Mary Dalmau, Reader’s Feast
We are proud to announce that on his visit to Australia,
Peter Ho Davies will travel to Melbourne courtesy of his
publishers, Hachette Livre, to appear for one event only with Reader’s Feast.
Peter Ho Davies directs the MFA Programme in Creative
Writing at the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003,
he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty ‘Best
of Young British Novelists’. "
The Welsh Girl" was long listed for the Booker in 2007.
6.15 for 6.30pm, Monday 26 May 2008
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
$15.00pp $12.50 conc* unreserved seating
Pre-paid Bookings (03) 9662 4699
email: readers@readersfeast.com.au
The long way home...
This looks awesome. Reminds me of the psychotropicalism article by Amelia Douglas in the latest unmag
Comment made 14 years ago on Thursday 08 May 2008Johnston st Collingwood
good little ari thing happening down this end of town now…
Comment made 14 years ago on Thursday 01 May 2008Would you die for art?
Gregor Schneider is looking for a volunteer who is willing to die for a new artwork he’s making…
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 28 April 2008Aesthetic Laboratory
Congrats on the mention in The Sunday Age, Ace.
Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 27 April 2008public performance art
lo-fi mashup of an Art of Bleeding performance.
Fun stuff.
Reminds me of the Terrorism Australia peformances running around the Melbourne cbd last next wave festival.
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 23 April 2008Paul Robertson new animation
He certainly did. What a genius.
Paul Robertson new animation
new pic on paul’s blog. make a great desktop wallpaper
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008EEC's Artistic License
Next time customs won’t let you through the gate to the USA …
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008MY PARENTS DON'T KNOW I'M ADOPTED
lolz. my parents don’t know they’re adopted either.
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008Artabase is a Webby Honoree
no… have you sold much stuff?
Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008Artabase is a Webby Honoree
I heard Redbubble got one for community (ie not art).
Are you on there?
Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 20 April 2008Artabase on Facebook
The Central Intelligence Agency is not going to get very intelligent reading Facebook.
However the Australian police did use it to investigate that attack in Melbourne CBD where two dudes got shot trying to help a girl who was being forced in to a car.
I know one of the girl’s friends. He doesn’t use his real name on Facebook and thus was not investigated for it, but all her other Facebook friends were investigated.
Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 20 April 2008Paul Robertson new animation
Paul has a new animation. If you aren’t familiar with his work YOU SIMPLY MUST SEE IT.
http://probertson.livejournal.com/
A better description by jean pool here
http://www.skynoise.net/2008/04/04/soundtracking-armageddon/
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 09 April 2008Crashman
Video collection of planes crashing, via boingboing
http://www.ballardian.com/the-crashman-an-experiment-in-applied-internet-ballardianism
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 09 April 2008Space Art - Ars Astronautica
Marcus Westbury and his mates want to replicate some of space on earth; in particular a to-scale model of the solar system across the nullabor
http://www.marcuswestbury.net/2008/04/09/worlds-biggest-public-art-project/
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 09 April 2008art on the environment
This thread needs a picture of a hoodoo, what an absurd rock form. Is your work suggesting maybe erosion can be beautiful Cameron D?
LED Art
very technical paper, but looks interesting for anyone working with LEDs
http://web.mit.edu/neltnerb/www/artwork/index.html
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 19 March 2008Origami
Electric origami
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/electric-origami/
Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 19 March 2008Online Arts Resources
The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online has entries for thousands of artists from Australia which anyone can contribute research to.
Comment made 15 years ago on Saturday 05 January 2008Open Source Knitting Standard KnitML
Great article on the history of guerilla knitting here http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009872.php
Comment made 15 years ago on Tuesday 01 January 2008Online Arts Resources
has loads of information about how to best make use of the internet as an artist.
Comment made 15 years ago on Thursday 13 December 2007Sophie Dalgleish
my new, new, new, new, new favourite artist.
Comment made 15 years ago on Friday 16 November 2007