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Article of The Month January 2010
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Business as Usual

all characters are fictional.
Written by william blake 28 Jan 2010
11 Comments
 

 
Flipper 9 Feb 2010 9:13 pm, reply to Business as Usual

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...
 
 
Flipper 9 Feb 2010 6:58 pm, reply to Business as Usual

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...
 
william blake 9 Feb 2010 5:28 pm, reply to Business as Usual

...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...
 
Flipper 8 Feb 2010 11:55 pm, reply to Business as Usual

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...
 
Monkey 8 Feb 2010 11:38 pm, reply to Love Me Tender

Ai yai yai, yes

the suits with the chequebooks are all so wicked, it ees all there fault.
 
Flipper 3 Feb 2010 2:02 am, reply to Love Me Tender
 
bunrush 2 Feb 2010 8:42 pm, reply to Love Me Tender

"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....
 
 

Up The Arts, by Andrew Paul Wood

From icanhascheeburger.com - an excellent definition of art

see more Lolcats and funny pictures
12 Jan 2010
 

Air New Zealand's New Uniforms

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...
10 Jan 2010
2 Comments
 

IF YOU LIKED AVATAR, YOU WILL LOVE...

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 ,...
5 Jan 2010
3 Comments
 

W(H)ANGANUI

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...
29 Dec 2009
 

TAKING BERLIN

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...
29 Dec 2009
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Forum > Artbash >

Business as Usual

all characters are fictional.
Written by william blake 28 Jan 2010
11 Comments
Newest Comment Flipper 9 Feb 2010 9:13 pm

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...
 
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First Thursdays - K Road Art Show

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...
Written by FirstThursdays 24 Jan 2010
 
Forum > Art Theory and History >

Love Me Tender

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...
Written by william blake 19 Jan 2010
24 Comments
Newest Comment Monkey 8 Feb 2010 11:38 pm

Ai yai yai, yes

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

A quick review on a disturbing part of New Zealand culture

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...
Written by Flipper 17 Jan 2010
8 Comments
Newest Comment Flipper 27 Jan 2010 9:00 am

 
Forum > Art Theory and History >

This is a new and short article to tell you that I am in the process of writing a new article...

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...
Written by Quint Baker 15 Jan 2010
39 Comments
Newest Comment bunrush 17 Jan 2010 4:35 pm

Unh. Not sure if I

like the popular imagination about what I would, and wouldn't, like to do with living and dead artists and curators. As for flaying - as...
 
Forum > Rants >

NZ Art after Guantanemo

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...
Written by Flipper 8 Jan 2010
39 Comments
Newest Comment Monkey 27 Jan 2010 7:12 pm

Hey, is this a reply

to me? probably not as I'm irrelevant...but swish anyway to get around with Mr White Fungus of the cool Wellington set. Wellington is the...
 
Forum > Art Theory and History >

Problems Posed by the Question of the Existence (or non-existence) of Q. B.

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.
Written by bunrush 7 Jan 2010
6 Comments
Newest Comment bunrush 8 Jan 2010 4:39 pm

Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii... Oh, dear god.

It's up off of all fours. Mother Mary! It speaks. It apes the speech and ways of men. How monstrous. Must we endure this mimetic abomination?...
 
Forum > Art Theory and History >

Are You Scrooge? And Art Missing From Art

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...
Written by Quinton Baker 23 Dec 2009
80 Comments
Newest Comment bunrush 8 Jan 2010 4:43 pm

"intellectualizing myself with books"

Whatever that means....it's apparently not working. You might want to look at the pictures instead. Reading seems beyond you capacities.
 
 

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