Neon Parc

Has anyone noticed that an anagram of Neon Parc is Crap'en on ?

Equal Employment Opportunity

Which Australian contemporary art institution hires an Indigenous curator but refuses to allow them to do any work, instead paying them a full time salary to warm a seat and polish a title plaque, five days a week? When queried about the position's lack of duties and responsibilities, the institution's Director explains "Curator of Indigenous Art is a symbolic role."

City Gallery Wellington

Pundits are predicting that City Gallery Wellington is about to rebrand itself and speculation is rife about the gallery's new name. Names Museum of Contemporary Art II and Roslyn Oxley 10 are attracting the shortest odds.  

Recession proof your art

All those generation Y artists out there are in for the shock of their lives if the recession that everybody's been madly predicting comes to fruition. Y is the only generation that hasn't experienced an economic downturn since primary school. Art Allergy predicts handouts from their Baby Boomer mums and dads will help cushion the blow...

 

Spaces of Ego

Attendees at the Spaces of Art conference at Sydney's Artspace this weekend were treated to an excruciating display of ego in the closing session. Audience members were left squirming in their seats, eyeing the exits and desperate for a piss or a drink when Thomas Berghuis, Reuben Keehan and Blair French each made several desperate attempts to get the last word in. The microphone went around the three men several times for pompous and ponderous summations before the trapped audience members could finally make a break for it, relieve their bladders and hit the bar. 

Boutwell Draper's latest faux pas

Sydney commercial gallery Boutwell Draper decided to hold an exhibition by young artist Kirsty Bruce. The catch is, the exhibition went ahead without her knowledge, consent or participation. The gallerists had bought a few of her works privately in the hopes of representing her. Things did not go according to plan and the artist chose representation by Milani Gallery instead. Boutwell Draper gallery was left holding the pictures and decided that whacking them on the wall for resale, and calling it a Kirsty Bruce exhibition, was the way to go.