In the mid 1970s I was thinking hard about the relationship between art and other forms of work while reading the great American journalist and oral historian Studs Terkel – his 1974 book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do remains a classic and an [...]
Stephen Jones' book Synthetics : Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia 1956 - 1975 was launched last week at the AGNSW. For someone like me who has complained for decades now about the way Australian art history of that period was being written this book is a real breath of fresh air. So I'll [...]
The Darwin and the Art of Evolution Conference was held at the Art Gallery of NSW in September 2010. It was convened by Fay Brauer of the University of NSW and Tony Bond of AGNSW. Speakers at the two day conference covered a range of material both popular and scientific that developed around Charles Darwin's [...]