April 2011 Issue 238
1 Globility: the new Globilsation, 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, GoMA: GINA FAIRLEY
Candice Breitz, King (a portrait of Michael Jackson), 2005, 16-channel video installation: 42:20 minutes, colour, sound, 500 x 1200cm (installed, variable)
Purchased 2008 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
2 ‘There is also the West Heavens’: a Chinese-Indian conversation: CAROLINE TURNER
RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, REVOLUTIONARY FORCES, 2010. Installation view from the exhibition Place.Time.Play: Contemporary Art from India and China, Shanghai, 2010. Image courtesy the artist
3 Memory Palaces: JOHN KELLY
Stephen J Shanabrook, On the Road to Heaven The Highway to Hell (detail), 2008, ‘remnants’ of the suicide bomber cast in dark chocolate, 74 x 30.5 x 89cm. Image courtesy the artist and the Museum of Old and New Art; photograph by Leigh Carmichael
4 The MONA Manifesto: SARAH SCOTT
MuseUm of Old and New Art from Little Frying Pan Island, Derwent River, Hobart, Tasmania. Image courtesy the Museum of Old and New Art; all photographs by Leigh Carmichael.
5 Danger and Beauty in the Art of Billy Atkins: JOHN CARTY
Kumpupirntily (Lake Disappointment), 2007, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 61cm. Collection: Kerry Stokes Collection, PerthImages courtesy the artist and Martumili Artists, Western Australia
6 So what else is new? The NEW NEW, Contemporary Art Centre of SA: STEPHANIE RADOK
Roy Ananda, Untitled (detail), 2010, installation view, The Gallerie, Adelaide. Image courtesy Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
7 Anne Walmsley’s In Living Memory: BARBIE GREENSHIELDS
Views of Anne Walmsley’s In Living Memory installation, 2010, the old Masonic Lodge, Albany, Western Australia. Photographs by John McKinnon
8 Twinned and Twined: Karen Mills and Robyn Djunginy: STELLA GRAY
Twined: Weaving and Abstraction, installation views, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney, with (left) work by Robyn Djunginy and (right, foreground) work by Karen Mills. Images courtesy the artists and Cross Art Projects
9 OBITUARY: Philip Watkins (1959-2010): JONATHAN WATKINS
Philip Watkins, 2010
10 William Kelly: Peace Dialogic: SHIREEN HUDA
Dialogue with ‘Guernica’, 2007, two six-metre-high banners, installed on the façade of Guernica’s Cultural Centre
11 Magic of the Dance – Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume: ALAN R. DODGE
Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume installation view, National Gallery of Australia, with (left) costumes for The Sleeping Princess
12 Viola: NICOLAS LOW, Melbourne
Bill Viola, The Raft, 2004, still images from video/sound installation; colour high-definition video projection on wall (3.96 x 2.23m) in darkened space; surround sound system; room dimensions: 9 x 7 x 4m; performers: Sheryl Arenson, Robin Bonaccorsi, Rocky Capella, Cathy Chang, Liisa Cohen, Tad Coughenour, Tom Ficke, James Ford, Michael Irby, Simon Karimian, John Kim, Tanya Little, Mike Martinez, Petro Martirosian, Jeff Mosley, Gladys Peters, Maria Victoria, Kaye Wade, Kim Weild, Ellis Williams. PHOTOGRAPH BY KIRA PEROV
13 New Frontiers in Transmedia Art: CHRISTINE WESTWOOD
Lynn Hershman Leeson, !WAR (Woman Art Revolution), ongoing project
14 Gustav Moreau & The Eternal Feminine: MAURICE O’RIORDAN
The apparition, oil on canvas, 142 x images of work by Gustav Moreau. Image courtesy the Musée Gustav Moreau, Paris. © Photo RMN – René-Gabriel Ojéda
15 Daniel Mafe: Approaching the silence: WES HILL
Untitled VII, 2008, acrylic on paper, 122 x 86cm. iMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JAN MANTON ART, BRISBANE
16 BOOKS: Wang Lan: NICHOLAS JOSE
Book cover with image of Lucky When Dropped (detail), 2006, acrylic on canvas, 121 x 106.5cm
