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ArtKritique
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ArtKritique is the secret life of John Matthews, Head of Strategy at Blue Marlin Brand Design in Sydney. A humanist criticism of art seen in commercial and public galleries
Recent Posts
On Ben Frost @ Boutwell Draper Gallery
At which point did Pop Art become redundant as a commentary on both art and society? Â I wish I had been able to experience both the nascent rush of early consumer society in the 1950s and the dazzle of an art that took it as both subject and form. Â...
Del Kathryn Barton @ Kaliman Gallery
Sometimes in an exhibition you can find the most unlikely piece that allows you to see where an artist might have taken things. Â Del Kathryn Barton's 'The Star Eat Your Body' is a restless exhibition that swerves between the familiar taken to a huge...
On Michael Zavros @ GrantPirrie
Perhaps I need to revisit Michael Zavros. Â Between seeing his show 'Calling in the Fox' at GrantPirrie I have undergone such a change in feeling about the work I almost need to check whether I really saw the works that left me so happily surprised t...
On The Dobell Prize 2009 @ AGNSW
I look forward to the Dobell Prize. It's the antidote to the celebrity silliness of the Archibald and can be guaranteed to leave you feeling far more elevated. It's pointless to rehash old Florentine/Venetian arguments about the relative merits of ...
On Rupert Bunny @ AGNSW
I'm not sure I recall when I last saw an exhibition as genuinely strange as the Rupert Bunny survey show just opened at Sydney's AGNSW. Stranger than any contemporary show I've seen in it we see an academic painter wrestle with a range of figurative...
On Happy Days @ Belvoir Street Theatre
"Another heavenly day" pronounces Winnie at the beginning of Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days', dressed to the nines in peach chiffon and buried to her waist in rubble. The statement will always draw laughter from an audience, its absurdity is...
