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Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of …
Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of …
Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of …
Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of …
In a special web-only interview, award-winning Indian-born American writer Abha Dawesar (Miniplanner, Babyji, That Summer in Paris, Family Values) drops by to chat to us about the beginnings of…
Last Sunday, we held our annual Children’s Book Festival (in partnership with the State Library of Victoria). From 10am until 4pm, the State Library Lawns, our Performance Space, Little Lonsdale…
Bronwyn Bancroft is a Bundjalung woman, fashion designer and artist, whose credits include being one of the first Australian designers to be invited to show their work in Paris. Her career in…
Once the Apple Isle, Tasmania’s size and isolation made it the butt of mainland jokes. But those qualities – and its stunning natural environment – are now seen as major advantages. And the buzz…
By Andie FoxMiddle age can make you a more savvy audience for art … but also a lazier one, as it must be squeezed into an ever-more time-poor life. Andie Fox realises that she’s become so risk…
In today’s wired-up world, we can be with anyone, anywhere at any time. We have hundreds of ‘friends’, habitually ‘follow’ strangers and work from virtual offices. What does all this mean for…
In today’s wired-up world, we can be with anyone, anywhere at any time. We have hundreds of ‘friends’, habitually ‘follow’ strangers and work from virtual offices. What does all this mean for…
We bring you our five favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Playing with your foodErnie Button really, really loves cereal. He’s spent the past decade working on a series…
Some believe that multiculturalism is ‘a racism of anti-racists’ that ‘chains people to their roots’, as controversial French writer Pascal Bruckner has said.But curator Damian Smith believes that…
The revolutionary potential of rock and roll has long been a worn-out cliché in the West, where the Rolling Stones do commercials and rappers hang with royalty. But in contemporary China, rock (or…
Australia has long been haunted by the spectre of ‘cultural cringe’ – nowhere more so, perhaps, than in our arts.But in the globalised new millennium, has all that changed? Have we finally stopped…
Hiroshi Ishiguro is one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today – and the creator of some of the most life-like robots ever made.Ishiguro’s shockingly human androids (including his own…
Hiroshi Ishiguro is one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today – and the creator of some of the most life-like robots ever made. Ishiguro’s shockingly human androids (including his own…
We collect our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Olympic art: an athletic London busHere’s an eye-catching example of Olympic art, via the Atlantic: a London bus that…
This week’s Friday High Five is a visual spectacular, as we bring you five fabulous sculptures, all made out of books. Enjoy!By Robert The.By Nick Georgiou.‘A wonderfully crafted and cleverly folded …
In our ecologically-threatened world, birds have a vitally important place in the human psyche. At a more intimate level their wondrous nests – exquisite, painstakingly-constructed creations that…
In our ecologically-threatened world, birds have a vitally important place in the human psyche. At a more intimate level their wondrous nests – exquisite, painstakingly-constructed creations that…
Join W.H. Chong for the first in an occasional series on the art and artistry of book design, be it traditional dust-jackets or futuristic visions of books of the future. Publisher’s brief: ‘Here…
Ford’s Theatre, the site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination, is still operating. And they must be carrying around some serious guilt, because they’ve recently invested in a (literally) towering …
Since Rirkrit Tiravanjiya cooked some curry for gallery-goers in the 1990s, contemporary artists have been increasingly interested to feed, share and exchange food obsessions with their audience. At …
Gay marriage, rituals and drawing inspiration from disaster: can we be secular and be spiritual? Is this a threat to the old guard? What will be destroyed if more people ask questions of religious…
What role does creativity play in creating liveable environments? What kind of things can squash the creation of a good city? Can we save the post-Spencer St end of our city? Whose job is it to do…
The Breakfast Club is a series of talks events, presented in partnership with the Next Wave Festival, and held at breakfast time: on weekdays at 8am, on weekends at 10am.We’re interested in how the w…
The arts aren’t immune to their own kind of sexism. So let’s talk about it. What can current generations of feminists learn? What’s different and what sticks? How are our public and media figures…
The Breakfast Club is a series of talks events, presented in partnership with the Next Wave Festival, and held at breakfast time: on weekdays at 8am, on weekends at 10am.We’re interested in how the w…
The Breakfast Club is a series of talks events, presented in partnership with the Next Wave Festival, and held at breakfast time: on weekdays at 8am, on weekends at 10am.We’re interested in how the w…
The Breakfast Club is a series of talks events, presented in partnership with the Next Wave Festival, and held at breakfast time: on weekdays at 8am, on weekends at 10am.We’re interested in how the w…
The past two years have seen people take to the streets in more and more countries, seeking out change without knowing how to articulate it yet. As Spring warms up the city streets, a different and m…
Tamsin Roberts opened her first gallery in 2005 in Beijing. Now the director of Art Melbourne, previously known as the Affordable Art Fair, she discusses the rise of art within communities…
Tamsin Roberts opened her first gallery in 2005 in Beijing. Now the director of Art Melbourne, previously known as the Affordable Art Fair, she discusses the rise of art within communities…
Tamsin Roberts opened her first gallery in 2005 in Beijing. Now the director of Art Melbourne, previously known as the Affordable Art Fair, she discusses the rise of art within communities…
Eyes on the PrixWinners of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica were announced this week. Celebrating artists and projects at the forefront of media experimentation and digital innovation, the awards…
Blown CoversA terrific new coffee table book by the art director of the New Yorker, Françoise Mouly, collects her favourite covers that were either rejected (often for being too controversial) or…
Wondering what to do with your old books? It can be hard to get much (or any) cash from your local second-hand bookshop these days. If you’re a dab hand with scissors and a glue-gun, you might like t…
Publisher Hilary McPhee, editor of celebrated film-maker Tim Burstall’s diaries, explores the impetus to diarise and the appeal of diaries as windows to the past. Burstall’s diaries in particular…
Few thinkers have succeeded in bringing the world of ideas beyond the ivory tower with such clarity and grace as Alain de Botton. In an event that extends one of the Wheeler Centre chief themes for t…
In 2012, Ideas for Melbourne will be the talk of the town.With city elections looming in 2012, we’re kicking off this year’s programming by turning the spotlight on some of Melbourne’s biggest civic …
Is nothing sacred? It’s a subject that continues to torture the stylish brows of French literary types following the bombing of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week. Last week’s edition &ndash…
Towards the end of his recent Skype appearance at the Wheeler Centre, UK fashion designer Gareth Pugh was asked to sign off with some advice to aspiring fashion designers in the audience. Here’s…
A picture really is worth a thousand words, creating new worlds and new readers. In this discussion, two of the craft’s leading exponents, Roland Harvey and Alison Lester, paint a picture of the…
By Mark MordueThe Rolling Stones song ‘Emotional Rescue’ is a seduction song thinly veiled in romance. The urgency and strut that it exudes, Mick Jagger’s startling use of falsetto – it’s all about g…
This weekend is the last chance residents of and visitors to East Gippsland have to take in an exhibition of book art. The Books … beyond words exhibition at the East Gippsland Art Gallery in…
Fashion designer Gareth Pugh has received global recognition and wide critical acclaim for his outlandish clubwear and novel approach to redefining modern luxury. He challenges set attitudes towards …
Creator of the iconic ‘I ♥ NY’, Milton Glaser is a veritable legend of design, and one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators. Glaser’s presence and impact on the profession is…
Troika are Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel. Together they have pioneered a technology-infused design movement and are highly regarded for their experiential projects that merge art…
Image of Poussin’s ‘Adoration of the Golden Calf’, before it was vandalised, courtesy the National Gallery via Wikipedia “The art of Nicolas Poussin might obsess someone…
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released from detention without trial after almost three months in detention. The government’s official news agency Xinhua reported he was released “because of his g…
Image of vintage Smith-Premier typewriter via WikiCommons Typewriter art has been around since at least 1867, with the oldest surviving example dating back to 1898…
Professor Timothy Clark is one of the world’s most respected art historians. Professor Timothy Clark is also TJ Clark, poet. He talks to Antoni Jach about his dual intellectual lives, their points…
A volume of lavishly-illustrated drawings for children by a pioneering Australian woman will be auctioned next month. Charlotte Waring arrived in Australia in 1826 at the age of 29. She’d been hired …
Indigenous artist Richard Bell has revealed that he decided the winner of this year’s prestigious Sulman Prize on the toss of a coin. Bell awarded the prize to Peter Smeeth for his painting, The…
If bad artists copy and great artists steal, as Picasso quipped, Ai Weiwei has been paid a high, if backhanded, compliment. Chinese art’s provocateur-in-chief has been charged with plagiarism after b…
In discussion with David Hansen, returning Melburnian Angus Trumble – Senior Curator of Paintings for the Yale Centre for British Art – takes us through the finer points of his career and his…
(Click to watch video.) What’s in a finger? More than you think. The thumb hitches rides and expresses approval or lack of it, the index finger identifies a…
For their first issue of 2011, the prestigious literary journal tackles the academy head-on. In the lead essay, John Armstrong, Philosopher-in-Residence at Melbourne Business school, presents a…
Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings for the Yale Centre for British Art, provides some pointerson the finger, in a collision between art and science, history and pop culture. From Guernica…
In a recent article for The Age, Helen Razer tackled the conundrum of queer culture and the value of the ghetto. The very idea of ‘gay’, she argued, is itself a bit of a problem. While it might be…
Ever wonder what your favourite writers' doodles look like? Back in the days before word processing, writing was a matter of putting pen – or pencil – to paper. As writing is a slow, laborious and…
With F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby under her belt, graphic novellist Nicki Greenberg turned her hand to Shakespeare. In conversation with celebrated illustrator Shaun Tan, Nicki discusses…
John McDonald reckons a lot of arts criticism is “no more than a publicity release that has been in the microwave for a few seconds then printed in the newspaper”, while Naomi Cass thinks the whole p…
Blogger, designer and visual artist, Culture Mulcher has been keeping a scrapbook of his visits to the Wheeler Centre and this week of Critical Failure he’s been particularly busy with sketches…
Alison Croggon (Image courtesy Jacqueline Mitelman) “As an artist, my relationships are experiential rather than theoretical. I certainly share with scientists and…
Festival director and composer Jonathan Mills has worked across the arts and sees their role in our society as essential. In his words: “In a sense this lecture is not really about the State of the A…
