Articles tagged with 'Art'

Creative mines art from obsolescence

11 February 2010 | Artist Nick Gentry has reclaimed mountains for floppy disks, videotapes and cassettes for the art world.


Sydney artists design out crime

10 February 2010 | The CBD's dark and empty alleys will be lit with by pop-up galleries next week.


Innovative art space moves to Sydney CBD

28 January 2010 | Pop-up shops, four gallery spaces and Australia's largest jewellery studio will be setting up home in the CBD.


Design goes digital in Second Life

25 January 2010 | Art appreciators from around the world are being offered a second life by Canberra's National Portrait Gallery.


Funding slash leaves gallery headless

12 January 2010 | The director of South Australia's art gallery has quit after "dwindling" funds forced the institution into provincialism.


Reverse graffiti turns art inside out

8 October 2009 | No paint. No defacing. A Brazilian artist is prompting councils to clean up their tunnels with his pollution-defying green stencils.


Derelict flat creates chemical reaction for artist

6 October 2009 | A spectacular crystal-covered flat is among those art installations nominated for the Turner Prize.


Famous architect uses "painting career" as ruse to move firms

1 October 2009 | A leading architect has admitted that his claim that he was quitting architecture to pursue art was a smokescreen hiding his move to a rival firm.


A brush with Google Street View

11 September 2009 | An artist who can't afford to travel is using Google Street View to find the world's most inspiring streetscapes.


Sculptor propels art through space

7 September 2009 | These fantastic sculptures by artist Peter Jansen capture the total shape of human movement in a single frame.


In focus: LAB Architecture

30 July 2009 | LAB's Donald Bates talks about the relationship between art and architecture, Federation Square and the public's responsibility to invest in design.


Global round up

24 July 2009 | A German architect pioneers buildings made from living trees, images unveiled of a new dance theatre in St Petersburg and Bangkok prepares for a trippy spiraling tower.


Peddling is an artform for Armstrong

24 July 2009 | Bad boy of the British art scene, Damien Hirst, has given Lance Armstrong's Tour de France bike a very pretty makeover. Images revealed...


BREAKING NEWS: Winning designs for Sydney's laneways revealed, images

14 July 2009 | A barcode of white fluorescent tubes and a prosthetic skin with its heartbeat pulsing through a laneway, are just some of the designs that will be realised in Sydney's forgotten alleys.


Rubik's Cube wins planning approval

8 July 2009 | Sam Marshall's cubist design for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) at Circular Quay has finally won planning approval.


Rant on

2 July 2009 | Architecture as a "slow art", buildings become collectors' items, fun design and McMansions rise from the dead, in today's news digest.


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