Nish Cash

Nish Cash is a graffiti artist based in Melbourne. She talks about how she got started writing graffiti and about the support offered by Ladie Killerz, (a national female graffiti event that happens annually with a wall jam, exhibitions, and performances).

Published March 2014

Melbourne Now: The defining moment for a century of art schools?

Juliette Peers looks at the big picture of the NGV homegrown blockbuster Melbourne Now and finds its origins reach back in time.

Published March 2014

New Histories

Artist and writer Stephanie Radok reviews three big new books that point towards new histories of art in the Southern hemisphere - Art in Oceania: A New History; Hotsprings: the Northern Territory and contemporary Australian artists and Mapping South: journeys in South-South Cultural Relations.

Published March 2014

The hand that feeds: Graffiti and authenticity in contemporary brand culture

Published March 2014

Double-dare ya

Author and broadcaster Craig Schuftan looks at the perennial issue of the co-option of anti-establishment culture as seen in the different approaches of Kurt Cobain and the band started by his friend Kathleen Hanna - Riot Grrrl.

Published March 2014

21st Century Portraits

Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon
National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013

Freelance curator and scholar Margot Osborne reviews a new book on portraiture published by the National Portrait Gallery of London and featuring three Australian artists among others from around the world.

Published March 2014

Back to the future: contemporary or alternative?

Professor Pat Hoffie of Griffith University, interviews the two new Directors of the IMA, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, and contextualises their appointment in the Contemporary Art Space context of 2014.

Published March 2014

War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono

Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

Published March 2014

On Men

Curator: Eleanor Scicchitano
FELTspace, Adelaide
4 September – 21 September 2013

Published March 2014

Feral: Sylvia Ross; Paintings 2011-2013: Emanuel Raft

Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
13 – 23 November 2013

Published March 2014

Written on our neighbours' walls: graffiti in Asia

Published March 2014

How the demographic got screwed

Associate Professor Joanna Mendelssohn looks over the last twenty-five years of tertiary art education and wonders where the intake of students from a broad socio-economic spectrum has gone and where the subsequent shrinking cultural conversation leaves Australia?

Published March 2014