Tag: Art Gallery of NSW
Art Column
Doubletake: The Anne Landa Award
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Art Column,It may enjoy a ‘cutting edge’ reputation, but too much new media art translates into an aimless, shapeless sequence of images grouped around one or two central ideas. These works are not valued for what they are, but for what they represent. Australia’s official contribution to the Venice Biennale provides an excellent example. To read […]
Art Column
Tim Johnson
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Art Column,Tim Johnson once had a vision of the Buddha in his kitchen in Newtown. “The moment after I saw it,” he told an interviewer in 1991, “it somehow took over my thoughts, said ‘Don’t be afraid’, and floated towards me very quickly, merged into my body, and then said ‘I’ll always be here.’” Neither is […]