For a daily dose of art, street art, interventions, disruptions goto: REBEL:ART. It will relieve your pain.
Today, the the very excellent Sarah Maple, This Artist Blows
Every single archived page is a goldmine, z.B:
Ron English, The Secret History of Kiss, 2008
REBEL:ART it will increase your bank balance.
Tenth in a series of documentations of deliberate and accidental street art.
Fishers Lane, Fitzroy
The Zombie State
by Ben Ellis
17–27 September 8pm
Location: Union Theatre, ground floor, Union House, The University of Melbourne
Melways ref: 75A
Tickets: Full $25/Concession $15/Union Members $12
Preview 16 September: All tickets $10
tickets online
Johnny Carr as Segismundo in Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca. VCA Company 08, directed by Daniel Schlusser. All photos by Jeff Busby.
Theatrenotes review here.
Season Details here.
Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca, directed by Daniel Schlusser. Translation by Beatrix Christian, set designed by Marg Horwell, lighting designed by Kimberly Kwa, special effects make-up by Dominique Mathisen. Performed by George Banders, Brendan Barnett, Johnny Carr, Andrew Dunn, Julia Grace, Sophie Mathisen, Vanessa Moltzen, Sarah Ogden, Josh Price.
I'm not usually a nature-photography fan but these photos blogged by Alan Taylor took my breath away.
...and "Fly Bagels! Fly!".
I Saw a Chapel All of Gold
I saw a chapel all of gold
That none did dare to enter in;
And many, weeping, stood without,
Weeping, mourning, worshipping.
I saw a serpent rise between
The white pillars of the door;
And he forced and forced and forced;
Down the golden hinges tore.
And along the pavement sweet
Set with pearls and rubies bright
All his slimy length he drew
Till upon the altar white
Vomiting his poison out
On the bread and on the wine.
So I turned into a sty
And laid me down among the swine.
- William Blake
"Fortunately, not all have swallowed the nihilistic cant of the postmodern. Art can be defined as having certain characteristics and qualities...Art is uplifting and helps us, in the words of another English poet, William Blake, "To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower". While I have not seen the photographs in question...most viewers, I think, would agree that images of naked, under-age girls, silhouetted and standing provocatively are unacceptable." - Dr. Kevin Donnelly (The Sunday Age - 25/5/08)
Donatello's David.
Alison Croggon, who is "very sad and very angry that this is happening in my country." has all the links, particularly to George Hunka and Nicholas Pickard.
All photographs by Brett Boardman
Performance details and tickets here.
ABC TV news segment here.
Will Noonan review at M/C Reviews.
Nicholas Pickard review here.
Jason Blake in the Sydney Morning Herald here.
SALOME - IN COGITO VOLUME III
PRESENTED BY THE RABBLE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARRIAGEWORKS
MAY 07 - 17 AT 8PM
CARRIAGEWORKS : WWW.CARRIAGEWORKS.COM.AU
245 WILSON STREET EVELEIGH SYDNEY
CO CREATION :: EMMA VALENTE & MARY HELEN SASSMAN
FEATURING :: PIER CARTHEW : MARY HELEN SASSMAN : SYD BRISBANE : DANA MILTINS : DANIEL SCHLUSSER
DIRECTOR & LIGHTING DESIGNER :: EMMA VALENTE
DESIGNER :: KATE DAVIS
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER :: MAX LYANDVERT : EVA MUELLER
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS :: JESSICA BECK : ADAM IUSTON : BELLA DI LORENZO : DAISY NOYES : DAN SPIELMAN
Photographs: Mary Helen Sassman (Salome) being baptised by Pier Carthew (John the Baptist), Mary Helen Sassman as Salome with circular saw, Dana Miltins (Judith), Pier Carthew (John) and Daniel Schlusser (Herod) in a perverse-reverse-baptism involving flour
