Cubism and Australian Art

Curators: Leslie Harding, Sue Cramer
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
24 November 2009 – 8 April 2010

Published June 2010

Scene, Not Herd: The evanescent underground

Chris Fleming, Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney and author of a book on Rene Girard, explores the evanescence of the underground. "Once the cultural products generated by the underground enter broader circulation (once scene becomes herd) the underground empties itself and is forced to regenerate."

Published June 2010

Street dreams

Peter Drew knows the street art of Adelaide like you know the back of your hand.

Published June 2010

Tim Burton, Filmmaker and artist

'Tim Burton: The Exhibition' is showing at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from 24 June to 10 October, 2010. The accompanying free Polaroid exhibit runs until 26 September. The program also includes live events featuring talks, gallery tours, film screenings and kids’ workshops.

Special guest Glenn D Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, will give a Keynote Address for the first time in Australia on the future of museums followed by a panel discussion on 24 June from 2pm. The Keynote Address is free but bookings are essential. See: www.acmi.net.au

Published June 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

Silence – The West Australian Wheatbelt : Brad Rimmer
Fremantle Prison
20 March – 16 May 2010

The Clubs: David Dare Parker
The Fremantle Club
20 March – 18 April 2010

FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival

Paradise Lost: Rebecca Dagnall
Studio Red Dust, Mount Hawthorn
20 March – 10 April 2010

Published June 2010

Artrave

Published June 2010

Conquest for country: Rockhole or mine

Anthropologist Eve Vincent has done fieldwork in mining towns in South Australia. She writes about Ali Russell's documentary Keeper about mining on Kokatha land near Ceduna.

Published June 2010

How to make trouble and influence people: Pranks, hoaxes, graffiti and political mischef-making from across Australia

Iain McIntyre's book How To Make Trouble And Influence People describes the secret ludic history of creative troublemaking in Australia over two centuries. It began as a series of zines and is now published by Breakdown Press to impress new readers and inspire new acts of defiance.

Published June 2010

Feminism Never Happened

Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, Jemima Wyman
Curator: Robert Leonard
IMA (Institute of Modern Art), Brisbane
30 January - 20 March 2010

Published June 2010

Adapt or die

“An underground artist? Me?” Ian Milliss on maintaining the rage to avoid extinction

Published June 2010

Warm Up: Mike Singe

Gallery 6a, Hobart
9 April - 1 May 2010

Published June 2010

Remembering Judith Hoffberg 1934-2009

Expert on Len Lye, editor of Umbrella Magazine Judith Hoffberg died on January 16, 2009. Tributes to her life and work continue with a memorial exhibition planned for late 2010.
Judith Hoffberg wrote of her last visit to Adelaide in 2002 as one of ‘’Paradise regained’...

Published June 2010