get used to it kids - its been confirmed...
Please excuse me while I wipe the tears of mirth from my eyes...
confirmed by who?
and so john the frog lord extended his grubby stumpy ringed little fingers out upon his sex starved minions and said " go my pretties, sow conservatism, reap disatisfaction, and curate painting shows about insects and the like."
for all the horrible stuff thats been said about peter hill i have to say... i like the amount syllables in his name pe.ter.hill. it just sorta rolls off the tongue don't you think.
in light of this i extend an offer of my condolances..."petey if your in sydney anytime this year give us a call. you could come over, we could link drinking with thinking, we could talk about glasgow, sean gladwell, DAMP, and lighthouses.(you once worked in one didnt you.) i could probably organise to borrow my nans futon if you'd like. maybe you could stay for a bit.
them folks at the SMH
dum dum: Curate painting shows about insects and ... arachnids?
Oh to be livin the art life in 1973...
http://www.whitlam.org/collectio...123_art_grants/
Back in the days of the mining boom...
Sorry this is out of context.
But the show held by Object last night was fantastibulous.
Good stuff from Vicki Mason, Edward Wong, Berto Pandolfo, Luis Nheu, Joungmee Do, Acer Chor, Mari Funaki, parisydneytokyo, Emma Varga, High Tea with Mrs Woo, Johan Larsson, Simon Lloyd.
Good to see you, Jason Moss.
Gary, you are supposed to send me an email!
Sorry this is out of context again.
(Phobias, Syndromes and Disorders)
I have news for you on mental health.
The fundamental question is, are we more self-obsessed nowadays than ever before, now that we have proper names for so many human conditions: bipolar disorder; panic attacks, attention deficit disorder, the list seems to go on and on.
How are people diagnosed and why do doctors often disagree with each other?
And what about the patients, do they sometimes know best?
Have a listen to this (realplayer).
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea...es/
s1270477.htm
Blah Blah Blah.
I don't disagree with most things said.
mARkeTing has art in it.
I recommend art.
I think the problem might be that these days you either thrive or you try to survive.
http://www.mba.wfu.edu/faculty/i...in/
thrivals.pdf
Back to the subject at hand.... if the good folks at the SMH are really into timewarps why not go back to when Whitlam was PM and bring back Daniel Thomas as art critic? If Artlife was happening then you'd be screaming blue bloody murder at the conflict of interest (he was then curator of the AGNSW) but he was the best art critic they ever had.
What I don't understand is why the editor didn't look at those two bright sparks at Metro — Dom Angleoro and Tracey Clement.They can both write really well (check on Google to see how they go) and would give a much needed lift to the arts pages. And they AREN'T nasty sniping meanminded derivative little men like McDonald....
Chef: Aren't all writers derivative?
Hell no.
Reputation in google can be created ;)
doughy, i believe dum dum is referring to the disastrous money pit that was new contemporaries. the galleries budget was reportedly enough to fund ten ari's, and despite this, (even with large glossy backlit ads as you left town hall station) the gallery was a failure, the backers pulling funding as a result of poor attendance. Strangely, exhibitions with a curatorial rationale such as 'Insects', failed to attract audiences.
monkey, I never knew that New Contemporaries was a money pit and I had assumed that QVB management gave them cheap rent. New Contemporaries was in a stuffy room with old carpets and squeaky floors. It was difficult to find ( not on one of QVB's arcade's ) and probaby not a very enticing trip up the stairs for tourists looking for a designer didgeridoo.
The Spiders and Flies and Illegal Catch catalogue had the interesting selection of artists:
Libby Bloxham, Nell, Peta Hinton,late)(ant mrav)(?), Hamish Ta-me, Zhang Huan, Patricia Casey, Keith Chidzey, John Wolseley, Claire Freer, Nina Sunyata Davis, Josh Honeyman, Margarita Georgiadis, Carmen Liang, Sean Loughery, Suzanne Archer, Rosalind Atkins, Alyssa Rothwell, Oleh Witer, Joanna Braithwaite.
The catalogue essay defined the exhibition as "artistic entomology". Pretty appropriate for Sydney in the summer, for anyone who doesn't strictly live in sealed, air conditioned environments.
now doughy, my comments were not intended as a slight upon the artists in the exhibition. However, if you're upset with me for suggesting john's ship wasn't exactly tight i'd say you're obviously under the esteemed frog lord's spell and have become one of his minions - which is ok, many have gone before you.
Since i've started, if you think a gallery in the QVB is hard to find and get to you obviously have or had no chance of seeing the many other galleries with a non-commercial focus. over the years you've probably missed great spaces like south and grey matter - two of many. I suggest you look up rocketart now as an example of an extremely well run gallery that is 'difficult to find'. unless of course you're a novacastrian.
I'm not upset and I at no point suggested that you made a slight on the artists involved. I'm not pledging alliegence to any side of McDonald debate, good luck to those who bite back but I do happen to like his pick of artists. So that is one good thing they did.
Yes, I have missed south and grey matter and, so far, rocketart. Didn't even know they existed. Thanks for the tip-off.
Yada yada Bathurst.
The thin review was just too small a stage for this great little aussie bleeder. Look out all you latte-sippin' sops, cravatt-wearing creeps and turtle-neck turds. Johnny's back to wreak some good old fashioned tie-wearing, neo-neo-conservative, retro-reactionary havoc. Wake me when your done.
Why just one art critic for the SMH? Wouldn't additional pieces by, say, Dominique Angeloro and Lenny Ann Low and even Robert Nelson attract more readers?
Welcome back Johnny did you know he's a great mimic? very entertaining over dinner, does a great Peter Kennedy - why isnt there short statured critic of similar cynical temprement and mimical talent at the SMH kicking the starch out of Classical Music, Books,Theatre or Food? Time to rip the Oz Ballet a new arsehole! Take that Carey you hanky wringer! I remember Macca once reviewed a set of stairs on Oxford St. rather than give anyone thcompromise his critical integrity or how about when Giles Auty reviewed himself - much better! The good old days, Smee at the OZ and now Macca at the SMH .. what a great joke. Best moment was when grumpy Humphry McQueen reviewed Maccas ANG Federation essay and totally demolished it in uh.. (whats the Uni of Western Syd. mag?) Something about wouldnt accept it from a first year student .. I've lost it ..wake me in 2008
Poswest?
"Wouldn't additional pieces by, say, ... Lenny Ann Low ... attract more readers?"
Not this reader. One of the reasons I've stopped reading SMH arts sections almost entirely.
Spew.
I don't know what's worse with macca. When he's bitchy he's simply horrid (and only funny if you too hate that person's guts). The other side of him is writing like Saturday's "essay" – which was totally mind numbingly boring...
I tried, I really tried, to find some interest in it, but dozed off after the third par and didn't wake until lunch time. Maybe the SMH can market McDonald for insomniacs.
Or market it to people wanting some self indulgent cross cultural communication without having to pay uni fees.
He's just one more classically styled beige sofa for the IKEA catalogue that is the SMH
They'll have to improve their content if they want to compete with corbis or lexus nexus.
The thing with an Ikea couch is that it looks good for a while but quickly starts to fall apart. It seems like the sensible choice, but in the long run it is nearly always a terrible terrible mistake.
mention the words john mcdonald once in an oz art-blog caption, you get thirty responses. about the most this blog's ever got.
transpose this to a newspaper scenario then go figure, skate.
onya pete.
I kept this thing going because I'm fucking bored.
Allow me to rephrase that: I'm a strung out Artlife junkie.
We've had way more than 33 comment posts before. Check out the numbers during the "most influential Sydney art persons" debacle.
If only the OZ would bring back Giles Auty. That'd really shake things up.
I'm gonna keep posting comments just so we can break the record.
i'm with billy, because i think in some way that brings me closer to shane warne.
Ditto.
How about reinstating Terrance Maloon and Nancy Borlase? Get James Gleeson back at The Telegraph and good old Elwynn Lynn at the Oz!
Maybe Sebastian Smee, who is always hearing cautionary voices rattling around in his head could tune in and channel them all for us.
well, i guess this means i'll end up depressed again when i read the SMH art reviews...towards the end of johnny's scorching sermons i almost believed that painting was dead, i think he might be a terrorist.
bugger.
he can't make up his mind...
he's just a very naughty little boy
don't they ever grow up?
Don't blame me - Johnny liked being spanked.
and when he was good?
McDonald looks like a smug smurf.
well i'm frightened smurf or no smurf. where's the care bears when you need em?
I just love 80's retro.
Care Bears selling crack. It's a living.
never mind the carebears...can we ask Stephen Dunne to cover visual art as well as theatre...he's a nasty old queen dripping with caustic venom...but he's always good for a laugh...kind of like art life really
Nah, just give us a tough talking Sierra male critic trying to prove his masculinity.
what's a "sierra male critic"?
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