A couple of weekends back I was pottering around the various back lanes of Lembongan on the moped, as is my wont. Just when you think you’ve discovered every rutted track there’s yet another little path to head down and this island gives up another one of its little...
For me the jury has always been out on John Olsen. When I first came across his work in the early 1980’s in the art gallery of NSW i was intrigued by his frogs and the splatter landscapes that were both new and surprising to the eye of a 19 year old who’d...
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ILLUSTRATOR LINDA YI’S RECIPE FOR “smacked cucumber,” a classic summertime Chinese snack, is more than a list of ingredients and instructions. It’s a full-color comic strip, complete with speech bubbles offering supportive cooking advice, sound effects (“SMACK!”)...
A visual artist has to die before knowledge comes to Bottom of The Pops. I’d not heard of Mira Lehr and most like neither had you until now. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired three of Lehr’s works for the museum’s permanent collection,...