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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EventKent State: Four Decades Later
Thu, 13 May - Sun, 25 Jul 2010
University of Sydney Art Gallery, Darlington
“This sounds like a retrospective. But do I admit I don’t know who Kent State is? Why don’t I know who Kent State is? Oh crap, I am totally festival-addled.” Turns out, while I definitely am festival-addled, Kent State is not a person but a university in the US where unarmed student protesters against the […]
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EventPecha Kucha nights @ SuperDeluxe
Thu, 29 Jul, 2010
SuperDeluxe @ Artspace, Woolloomooloo
Not quite the weekend but clearly you’re going to go out? The Thursday dilemma. A good festival assuages a great deal of school-night guilt purely on grounds of participation in the rich cultural life of your city or whatever, but when your event of choice is definitely educational, too, there’s pretty much an obligation to […]
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EventAsahi Silver+Black
Tue, 4 May - Sat, 8 May 2010
aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo
Exhibition crossed with pop-up store, this art and retail initiative is refreshingly (cold beer is delicious) literal. Those colours (colour me delighted to have the chance to drink delicious Asahi), silver and black, are the ones that the things on display actually have. Sculpture, cutlery, a lovely, meditative 3-D film of a skateboard ride, high-waisted […]
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EventsafARI
Wed, 5 May - Sun, 30 May 2010
Inner City ARIs, Sydney
Biennale, Schmiennale. Okay, fine, I don’t really mean that, but while famous people are putting on big shows at buildings with landmark status and getting schoolbusloads of guests of the “I also saw the Archibald” variety, it’s awesome that little tiny galleries continue bringing you plastic cups of wine and laser-printed price lists. Happening in and […]
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EventFashion Forward Festival
Fri, 7 May - Sun, 9 May 2010
Paddington Town Hall, Paddington
Holding this in Paddington Town Hall is fitting (har) for several reasons: (1) FASHAN is SRS BIZNISS; (2) it’s based around community participation, even if not of the ‘objection to proposed development’ type; (3) if you’re in that area, you’re probably already paying attention to your outfit. Civic-mindedness goes beyond the venue, though, with the […]
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EventFrock Stars
Tue, 27 Apr - Sun, 29 Aug 2010
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
Australian Fashion Week is, like probably more than a few of the models who’ll be a part of it, turning 16 this year — and it’s being thrown a monster birthday party that’s also kind of a parent-teacher night. In typically immersive style, the Powerhouse Museum’s Frock Stars: Inside Australian Fashion Week project is designed so […]
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EventSydney Writers’ Festival
Sat, 15 May - Sun, 23 May 2010
Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay
Under the rubric ‘Read, Rethink, Respond’ this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival brings together authors across cultures and continents to cast a light on what’s happening right now, and they seem to be a pretty confronting and contentious lot. It’s not a competition to see who’s the most ink-stained, it’s about interesting and well-expressed opinions and […]
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EventThe Real Refuses
Sun, 18 Apr, 2010
TAP Gallery, Darlinghurst
Like a much much more labour-intensive profile picture, a portrait is how a person has thought someone should be seen. This is a horrible analogy, but, frankly, so too are some of the paintings at The Real Refuses. TAP Gallery, fantastically, are for the 14th year running putting up what doesn’t go into the Archibald […]
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EventSusan O’Doherty: Perfect Woman
Tue, 30 Mar - Sat, 17 Apr 2010
NG Art Gallery, Chippendale
Investigated in this show is the ‘perfect woman’ as a construct, both psychically and as an assemblage. Out of dissected dolls, furnishings, often-strange appliances and household products from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, O’Doherty makes mordant visual puns: a set of scales as torso in The Perfect Weight, a light-bulb as a head in Bright […]
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EventVintage and Retro Sale
Sun, 13 Jun, 2010
Hibernian House, Surry Hills
A lot of strategies exist for vintage shopping — closing your eyes and feeling for fabrics that won’t give you hives, going to wealthy suburbs, having a good tailor, saved searches all over the internet, pure persistence — to which can be added: getting a collection of inner-city fashion kids to drag the spoils of their curated closets […]
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EventONE hundred
Tue, 9 Mar - Wed, 16 Jun 2010
State Library of NSW, Sydney
David Scott Mitchell’s bequest of his books, papers and pictures to the State Library in 1907 came with the condition that it be housed and displayed in its own wing. When it opened in 1910, it provided the first public collection of Australian and Oceanic history through original, primary sources, alongside an extraordinary selection of […]
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EventEmma White @ the Locksmith Project Space
Thu, 18 Mar - Sat, 27 Mar 2010
Locksmith Gallery, Alexandria
A couple of years ago an empty shopfront with ‘Keys Cut’ signage re-emerged as an artist-run initiative where artists could show without being obliged to sell, and a bit of funding that meant they could pay exhibitors. Emma White’s current show, ‘While You Wait’, is a nod to the history of the site and to […]