Arts & Entertainment
Semi-Permanent 2010
Now in its eighth year, Semi-Permanent has become an international podium for the sharing of innovative visual ideas in art and design.
Kit Wise: Explosion
Melbourne-based artist Kit Wise’s new suite of video works at Sarah Scout reframes depictions of the explosion as disturbingly sublime cultural phenomena.
Visual Classifier
We talk to Humphrey Clegg, the Acting Curator of Australian Art at the NGV, about his role as a visual classifier as he takes us through the gallery's storage unit.
Renaissance Dinosaur
Melbourne artist Kate Rohde and Sydney fashion duo Romance Was Born have taken over Karen Woodbury Gallery with a bizarre mergence of Jurassic beasties and Baroque aesthetics.
Polly Borland: Smudge
Celebrated photographer Polly Borland’s new body of work at Murray White Room oscillates between intimacy and warped theatricality.
On the Loom
In a familiar tale of old and new we talk to Atonia Syme, the director of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, about a renewed interest in the handmade art of tapestry.
The Value of Identity
Designing a restaurant identity is about diverse creative processes and collaborative thought between restaurant and designer.
Giles Ryder: Life Without Rituals
Sydney artist Giles Ryder’s new show at Block Projects poses questions about art’s role in contemporary culture.
Steven Asquith: Storm Concepts
Steven Asquith’s new exhibition at Utopian Slumps is a striking melange of earthly chaos.
Where all is (Not) Fair and Well
Conceived and curated by three of Melbourne art’s finest minds, new unofficial satellite event NotFair offers an artist-focused alternative to the Melbourne Art Fair.
Melbourne Art Fair 2010
Carlton’s Royal Exhibition Building will become a large commercial art space later this week when it opens the biennial Melbourne Art Fair
Dylan Martorell: Musique Povera
Melbourne based visual artist and musician Dylan Martorell has created sound-based installations and sculpture for the Heide Project Gallery that opens tomorrow.
Julia deVille: Night's Plutonian Shore
Julia deVille’s elegiac taxidermy creatures and ornate jewellery pieces are a solemn remembrance of life.
Spy Games
The Lomo camera is the antithesis of today's precise digital imaging, but that's exactly why the moody images they produce are so engaging.
Melbourne International Film Festival 2010
MIFF starts tomorrow and in anticipation we've compiled a list of some of the films we're excited about seeing here at Broadsheet.
Let There be Light
Facades along Fitzroy's landmark strip come alive through a technicolour array of animation, short film, photography, and video art.
Moving Europe
We discover what happens behind the scenes when installing a major international exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Studio Visit with Sam Jinks
Sam Jinks’ astonishing sculptures eschew hyperrealism with subtle shifts in scale and dimension. Dan Rule drops by his Coburg studio to chat about his upcoming show at Karen Woodbury Gallery.
Sounding the Sirens of Venice
The sprawling, widescreen pop of Melbourne husband and wife team The Sirens of Venice’s debut record belies its humble beginnings.
The Kenneth Jack View
Kenneth Jack's evocative Australian landscapes are on view until the end of the week at the Bundoora Homestead.














