Bethany Small
Bethany spends most of her time with her head tilted to one side, making opinions in lieu of anything else. She is otherwise, or simultaneously, wearing a tiny dress, using narrative theory to explain everything, or at an art show.
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EventMeet, Sip and Swallow
Mon, 16 Aug - Mon, 30 Aug 2010
The Corner House, Bondi
Well-adjusted Bondi small venues the Shop and Wine Bar and The Corner House are joining forces to put on fortnightly sessions with Australian winemakers, where you get to hear about the vintages from the winemakers themselves, try a few, have some snacks and take some home.
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EventKen Unsworth: The House of Blue Leaves
Sat, 21 Aug - Tue, 24 Aug 2010
AGNSW, Sydney
Despite the potential reputational consequences to me as a researcher, I am shocked to report to you that Ken Unsworth does not have a Wikipedia page*. Yes, an Australian artist who has been showing for more than 40 years, is collected in significant public galleries and has shown at Biennales and other important art things […]
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EventA Ciel Ouvert
Thu, 5 Aug - Tue, 24 Aug 2010
Monstrosity Gallery, Woolloomooloo
William-Guillame Saussay's big, energetic, squiggle-circuits are very 80s New York - like abstract cityscapes seen from above, their palette oscillates between energetic and virulent.
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EventDon’t Tell Nanna
Wed, 28 Jul - Wed, 25 Aug 2010
Horus & Deloris, Pyrmont
This is a show that asks you to be complicit with it. Right there in the title, see? Kind of like having a giggle about doing something a bit mischievous, but with a sense that it’s still important to be nice. Nanna might not want to see her granddaughter’s tights stretched over a board, or […]
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EventSydney Design 2010
Sat, 31 Jul - Sun, 15 Aug 2010
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
This 16-day festival is a city-wide celebration of designers of every genre and, with the cream of Australian and international design on show, it promises to be the best yet. With a theme like 'tell us a story' the avenues for exploration are endless - travel stories told with lace, insights into the rich histories of re-invented objects and shaping the stories of the future with sustainable design. Held in various venues around Sydney, check out the website for where and when you can check out the Young Blood and Designboom markets, find out about Wallpaper, listen to tales of old couches and learn how to make jewelry whist swigging champagne.
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EventWhy We Love Making Books
Mon, 2 Aug, 2010
Berta, Sydney
See and hear "a panel of self-confessed tactility-freaks" talk about their taste for small-press publishing and the value of using all the senses in reading books as well as making them.
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EventObject Gallery Spring Series
Tue, 27 Jul - Fri, 8 Oct 2010
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
Not so much exhibitions as events and community interventions, this 10-week community arts event will feature a 'ride-on' dinner in local, shared and sustainable style, tours of tucked-away studio spaces, a special Kino screening in the gallery, craft sessions and much more.
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EventLast Words
Thu, 15 Jul - Sat, 28 Aug 2010
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Seven local and international artists of varying backgrounds explore the blurring of cultural boundaries in this age of diversity and globalisation.
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EventBig Fashion Sale
Thu, 22 Jul - Sun, 25 Jul 2010
BJB studios, Surry Hills
A great way to plump up your wardrobe without deflating your wallet (too much), this sale-to-end-all-sales features every well-known designer under the Southern Cross trafficking their threads at ridiculously reasonable prices.
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EventBrook Andrew: The Cell
Fri, 9 Jul - Sat, 18 Sep 2010
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington
You'll need to take off your shoes, store anything sharp and change into one of the hooded suits that hang beside [i]The Cell[/i] before you're allowed in.
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EventDie To Look Good Sample & Clearance Sale
Sun, 11 Jul, 2010
China Heights, Darlinghurst
Ever broken down and cried in Incu or Pretty Dog? Justified why someone might pay $100 for a cotton tank with reeeeally well-shaped arm-holes? This sale of excellent and innovative local designer fashions will make you feel better.
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EventYaeli Ohana: Games We Play
Tue, 29 Jun - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
NG Art Gallery, Chippendale
Yaeli Ohana's work comes from a realisation that the strategies we learn in play as children come to shape how we approach adult challenges. "We all play games in our lives, whether we admit it or not."
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EventAlfred Stieglitz: the Lake George years
Tue, 22 Jun - Sun, 5 Sep 2010
AGNSW, Sydney
This is the first significant Australian showing of Alfred Stieglitz’s work and contains more than 150 of the finest prints of his photos. Alfred Stieglitz is important in a way that’s kind of hard to explain. That’s partly because he did so many different things as a photographer and partly because his influence on subsequent […]
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EventThe Great Gaga Debate
Sat, 12 Jun, 2010
Serial Space, Chippendale
In the fine traditions of extracurricular activities and Madonna (no, we are not linking that for you), Serial Space has assembled a crack team of smart people from the local arts and music community to decide once and for all “Is Lady Gaga an empowered female pop icon or an emaciated trash-mole?” Initially perceived as […]
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EventMark Kimber & Polixeni Papapetrou
Tue, 8 Jun - Sat, 3 Jul 2010
Stills Gallery, Paddington
The two shows on now at Stills Gallery are by established, mature photographers creating their own dreamworlds and representing fantasy and identity in ways that provoke enthusiasm as childlike as their mysterious subjects and a Lacanian freak-out. Mark Kimber’s All That Glisters series is framed in smoothly finished black and mounted deep under immaculate glass. […]
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EventBecky Sharp’s Vanity Fair Vintage Markets
Sat, 11 Dec, 2010
Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville
Lovely things can be even lovelier when someone else paid full price for them, another someone else restored them and brought them together for sale and yet another someone else wants them but isn't as quick as you. At these vintage markets you'll find authentic period garments as well as amazing designer pieces in near-perfect condition.
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EventInside Out
Sat, 5 Jun - Sun, 25 Jul 2010
Object Gallery, Surry Hills
In my experience, tiny little things are usually either adorable (e.g., kittens, outfits for small children, cupcakes) or something to do with science: bacteria and atoms and the level of interest you have in hearing a recitation of the digits of pi. And some wonderful things are little and smart and cute, like Nancy Drew, […]
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EventMatt Huynh: Asperatus
Tue, 1 Jun, 2010
The Skeleton Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney
I often wish I’d done more Latin. Anyone who had could explain much more elegantly that the name of this show refers to being roughed up by turbulence and is a term for a newly classified kind of cloud, and they would also be able to talk knowledgeably about the bones of the creatures displayed […]
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Eventbams & ted
Thu, 3 Jun - Sun, 27 Jun 2010
Locksmith Project Space, Alexandria
“You’re to come away at once, out of danger. I’ve got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn’t a wine you’ve ever tasted, so don’t pretend. It’s heaven with strawberries.” Lord Sebastian Flyte also has loads of charm and country-house, smart London and Oxford clothes, which […]
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EventLeeloo presents DisBand
Thu, 27 May - Sun, 30 May 2010
aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo
Sweetness and illustrations of girls with rosy cheeks and emerging Australian artists and craftspeople and who doesn’t love the Beatles? The online community and store Leeloo are putting on what’s probably the cutest show of the year. There are paintings and pictures and a pop-up store and a play on the opening night, all themed […]