all characters are fictional.

Truth. "I have to

make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of...

Floating cadaver? laura Palmer?

If it is our problems

that guide us, then is it likewise a problem that a carcass floats to the surface after three or four days of sinking. Kahu knows...

...radar and sonar: lucky.

We went to the estuary where Hone Heke saw out his days and we got bushed. When we made it to the flats the tide was...

Hyperventilating into a paper bag

of promise. The obstruction and the perilous folly settles upon thee. Not to mention these idle wings that follow, inevitably sending for one little green...

Ai yai yai, yes

the suits with the chequebooks are all so wicked, it ees all there fault.

"The question is, who is

it that is sucking the life out of so many artists now?" Answer: The docile artist who lies down willingly on the phlebotomist's couch....

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Oh my Gawd ! WTF? They have gone from drab Thunderbirds in mourning by Zambesi, to a dress by Trelise "explosion in granny's closet" Cooper that I swear I last saw on Dame Edna circa 1988. Perhaps the American historian Robin Winks...

Given that everything that Hollywood has produced since ET is derivative, it strikes me that if you enjoyed the movie Avatar , you will probably enjoy the following novels exploring similar themes – I know I do: The Sparrow ,...

I read an editorial recently disingeniously comparing the recent tizzy over the usage of Wanganui/Whanganui to the usage of Mt Cook/Aoraki. For one thing, Aoraki is the South Island dialect pronunciation and spelling (with a non-aspiratded plosive velar 'k'), just as Wanganui...

It should be perfectly obvious to anyone with half a brain, or even an Australian, that Berlin is the world centre of contemporary art. In about 1600 it was Rome. By the 1880s it was Paris – which then passed...

all characters are fictional.

Something new has hit the K Road art scene stimulating its creative energy and alternative culture.  First Thursdays is a monthly art walk held at historic St Kevins Arcade connecting artists, photographers, dancers, DJs, and art enthusiasts. The first event...

It was a hot August evening on Long Island; the big green convertible was speeding along; powerfully propelled by its new 303 cubic inch V8 engine.          Slumped drunkenly in the back, Edith was drinking in the night...

A quick review on a disturbing part of New Zealand culture. The vision then forms our current national identity by its influence on society. It is partly familiar and partly conjured from that which stimulates a love for ones own...

And it's about how the last fifty years of last century, was a rather strange era for the relationships between artists and consumers. It was a form of idolatry. A foreign artist of some distant land (for example) was worshipped...

The notion that arts main struggle is with reality is perhaps a simplified version of an adopted perception, in some respects detached from its real threat today. I believe rather then the obvious cause of a degenerating society, this ‘real...

Q. B. - a black-hole sort of celebrity-invert - is examined, as an ArtBash phenomenon, in this modest treatise speculating on his possible existence or non-existence. I fully realize, by writing in, around, and about Q.B., that I furnish the mistaken impression of 'flesh', where in fact there is, as I maintain, thankfully, none.

Hey you! yeah you there, don't think you can just lurk about artbash and not participate in this forum, you just casually browse over the discussions, that are admittedly sometimes obsurd. But what I wanted to ask you, my dear...