Anything, as long as you look good holding it - Look - Sydney Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Sydney's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Sydney's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Covers by Cybele Malinowski and Daniel Boud
They got a shy Ladyhawke to go topless, captured Blue Juice in their knickers, took a photo of Sarah Blasko that was described by her manager as her best ever, squeezed 100 musicians into one photo, and somehow managed to make Muscles look attractive.
Between them, this couple have probably snapped every musician to arrive on our shores, and if you've ever picked up a copy of Drum, Brag, 3D World, JMag or Time Out, you have in all likelihood seen what a bang up job they do of it.
KesselsKramer Exports
My god I hate ads. Everywhere I turn these days, there they are - peering at me with leery eyes and something to sell. Watching TV? Ads. Reading a mag? Ads. Standing in a queue? Ads! Fuck! I can't handle you!
So then, I ask you, fair and considerate readers, why is there an exhibition of posters by an ad agency? How good can this exhibition be? Maybe if they made a poster advertising a cheap hotel and the headline read, ‘Now more dogshit in the main entrance', I might go.
Bunuel - Amigos Y Peliculas (Friends and Films)
The daddy of surrealist cinema and one of our all-time favourite atheists, Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel also looked enviably good in a hat.
Marking 25 years since his death, this exhibition coincides with a retrospective program of his films, celebrating his pioneering vision. Photographs of Buñuel with his buddies (including Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca, Max Ernst and Igor Stravinsky) will be on show along with film posters, letters and a video presentation with Buñuel's anecdotes about his 32 films.
The Selby
Oh, January. If nothing else, this is the month where boring interior design and ‘lifestyle' magazines become filled with smug articles about ‘starting the year off on a good step' by ‘de-cluttering your home'. You should also do things like taking polaroids of expensive designer high heels and glueing them on the front of shoe boxes as a ‘practical storage solution.
Minor Details
It's January. Look around you. Look at the peeling skin on your sunburnt nose. Look at ants on hibiscus flowers. Look at your toes in the sand. Look at the colour of peach skin. Look at advanced style. Look at all the sad Christmas trees in the bins. Look at the sky. Look at the condensation on your glass of cold beer.
Game is Good
GAME IS GOOD unites four Sydney-based female artists in a collaborative throw down of creative moves. Lauren Brincat, Rachel Fuller, Michaela Gleave and Kate Mitchell build rafts, open and close windows, lop away at trees and blow up balloons, perpetually testing boundaries and teasing reality until it bends.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Robot, Wade Marynowsky
Meet the bourgeoisie robot. He wears a chic black hooped dress with a white lace collar and has a dome head like a CCTV surveillance camera. He is well mannered, quick witted, broadly knowledgeable and irresistibly charming. He's waiting for you at I.C.A.N. to converse pleasantly and politely about food, robots, dancing and other gripping topics suitable to his social class.
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