November 2015
- Secret art places: Part II
- Franti, out!
- Secret art places: Part I
- Play your cards right (or how we never talk about money)
- The holiday d’art
- Things I learned from ‘The Diplomat, the Artist and the Suit’, a documentary about architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall
- Township Museum and Creepy Long Fingers
- Performing relative states
- How to quieten the mind
- Against nature—Charles Lim and ‘Sea State’
September 2015
- Pirate – bug – museum
- Orange around
- Scroll, scroll, double tap
- Three thousand years of people being bastards to horses
- Boo!
- Prince screws
- Matt Hinkley bumps and sprained ankles
- Alit on the flax
- Free action
- A tantrum in triplet
- Parks and roubles
August 2015
- What is read and what is real?
- Important objects: A conversation with Lynda Draper
- Art versus craft, the final word
- Loompanics, Bik Van der Pol and how to fake an arts residency
- Trinket
- Sarah Aiken ‘Set’: Prestidigitation or so I like to imagine
- The suffocating genre-blue: On being wrong
- Taking notes
- The impossibility of describing Trisha Brown’s ‘Scallops’ (1973) without moving the body
- Beached
- A tale of two cities
July 2015
- Doing it right: Recorded responses to ‘Art as a Verb’
- If I was curator: An imagined conversation
- Asbestos
- A short line between three points
- Athens ‘House of Truth’ and ‘Hang ‘Em High #1’
- Bright light wakes you early in the tropics, which may reduce anxiety
- Modern zombies
- A conversation with Kalinda Vary
- We swim in unknown unknowns
- Moving images
- Ryan Gander looks like Karl Pilkington and they are both misanthropic northerners
December 2013
- Out one spectre: Justin Trendall at Kalimanrawlins
- Jonathan Nichols plays David Morse and Viggo Mortensen
- Like a prayer: Kate Murphy ‘Probable portraits’
- Huh
- Trev goes to Frieze London and Chelsea in New York. Enjoys it, but still …
- Right thurr
- Chua Mia Tee’s Singapore
September 2013
August 2013
- de for
- Don Celender and The Kitchen
- Alien in the mix: Bryan Spier at Sarah Scout Presents, Justin Andrews at Block Projects
- Arthur Boyd: An active witness
- To be outside, to be inside, to be free, to be bound, to be
- John Aslanidis—New York noise
July 2013
- Writing mail, writing class: ‘The big east’
- Constant loss: ‘Third/Fourth: Melbourne artist-facilitated biennale’, and the 1980s at the NGV
- Cool car park in Freo: Australian Centre for Concrete Art
- Funny games
- Ryoji Ikeda
- If you can’t say something nice
June 2013
- Default: ‘Everyday rebellions’ and Frances Stark
- Naval gazing: The busy beaver Turing machine and Justene Williams
- It’s not even a painting: ‘Like Mike’
- How the rich recycle their pleasures
- Grievous bodily collage
- ‘Kid candle’ and ‘Rocks’: Two works by Robin Rhode
- Hi mail, love Lisa
May 2013
April 2013
- Winners and grinners
- Washing machine
- Voice-over
- The whole lot: ‘Theatre of the world’ at MONA
- Something something video-film-paint something (1)
- New ACCA
- You need a bad operation
March 2013
- Group portrait
- Falling into a hangover. Don’t show images fast
- Beam me up Scotty (1): eulogy for a leader
- In the hood
- Backyard shed jams
- Comfort grunge
- Period piece
- Survival stories
December 2012
- Traumatic acts and therapeutic structures: A few ideas in, around and associated with Stamm
- The mind is a muscle: Yvonne Rainer’s ‘Trio A’
- Eyes wide shut
- Sadie Chandler: Café society
- Eat, clay, love
- Being there—experiencing the art of Louise Bourgeois
November 2012
October 2012
- Fine family living
- d13
- John Spiteri
- How to be
- Semi-urban tragedy: The sad caravans of Stefan Gevers
- Yolngu art in the age of mechanical reproduction
- Rob McHaffie going native
September 2012
- Good behaviour
- Organic happenings
- Konnichiwa Osaka
- Paradise
- Peter Schjeldahl: The critic as squid
- Some local birds
- The green text
August 2012
- Mikala Dwyer—agent orange
- Love and the machine
- Do ya thang Wang!
- (Mis)communication rules
- ‘The ark of catastrophe’: Guido van der Werve and Lyndal Jones in the 18th Biennale of Sydney
- Same, same but different or three I liked best
July 2012
June 2012
- Like seeks like
- Shades of grey (gray)
- ‘I’m not even supposed to be here today’, Clerks (1994)
- Through the frame—another extemporaneous musing
- A quiet one
- Raafat Ishak’s ‘decadence’
May 2012
- Atlas: Andrew Hurle
- Moya McKenna: Ideas once thought and then forgotten
- Photo finish, or harmony in grey
- Damiano Bertoli’s ‘Continuous moment: Anxiety Villa’
- Touching the surface: Angelica Mesiti
- Extemporaneously
- Siri Hayes: The world is our lounge room
April 2012
- Alesh Macak: 2 screens, 1 sandpit, music and bench, plus audience
- Make vibes not things: Caroline Anderson A.K.A. Crystal Diamond
- Elvis Richardson’s real estate
- Coloured dirt
- The clock and the rock: Aesthetic of the emblematic
- Background/middle-ground/foreground: Speaking about art
March 2012