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DIN HEAGNEY INTERVIEWS ASHLEY CRAWFORD, TONY LLOYD & SAM LEACH: NOTFAIR is a satellite event to the Melbourne Art Fair to be held from 4-8 August at 79 Stephenson St Richmond. What makes it interesting is that this is a curated commercial show featuring artists short-listed by largely non-commercial curators. The project is pitched as ‘combining the curatorial notion of a major biennale and the commercial potential of an art fair’.; Read article

NOTFAIR News July 2010: NOTFAIR has a new venue in Richmond! NOTFAIR features in the current edition of Australian Art Collector. NOTFAIR announces two new contemporary art prizes.; Read article

Chris Henshke: This video documents Chris Henshke's experiences at the Australian Synchrotron and attempts to understand it through the undertaking of ..; Read article

Art as Meme: Dr Gary Willis discusses his recent book, Art as Meme at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. In his talk, Willis raises some of the difficult questions facing the future of art, the artist and art education in the 21st century.; Read article

New York to Beijing – Worlds apart: New York used to be the art capital of the world. On one trip in the 1980s I stayed three months and found that the city could barely contain its enthusiasm for any kind of innovation. The streets were edgy and a ..; Read article

Two Landscapes: Much of the controversy surrounding Sam Leach's recent Wynne prize centres around the issue of whether the painting is an Australian landscape. Although the source is clearly a Dutch 17th c painting, I would argue that it is indeed an Australian landscape and in a way that profoundly reveals contemporary conditions.; Read article

NOTFAIR news April 2010: NOTFAIR feature in Australian Art Collector and NOTFAIR to appear at Art Melbourne 2010.; Read article

Congratulations - Our Sam Leach wins Archibald Prize: Artinfo commentator Sam Leach has won the 2010 Archibald Prize. We congratulate Sam for his portrait of Tim Minchin. The prestigious if somewhat notorious prize is a hot contested portrait prize.; Read article

JOHN ASLANIDIS -SONIC NETWORKS NO.S 4-7: My Last solo exhibition was at Gallery 9 in Sydney in April 2008. The title of the exhibition was Sonic Network no.3, it comprised of one major piece which was 244 x 304cm as well a series of smaller; Read article

MELBOURNE GETS NEW SATELLITE ART FAIR: This August will see the unveiling of the inaugural NOTFAIR. Melbourne's new satellite art fair.; Read article

response to questions – Felicity Spear: Sky Lab was the final of three exhibitions I have been involved with in 2009. It was my individual response, developed last year to coincide with the International Year of Astronomy and some other milestones...; Read article

Podcast Eps-4: In this episode we discuss the winner of the Woollahra sculpture prize, Alexander Seton and the winner of the RBS award...; Read article

David Ralph: VIDEO David Ralph in conversation with Tony Lloyd about his recent show Extensions at Arc One gallery.; Read article

Podcast Eps-3: This episode is a London special, following a recent trip by one of the artinfo team to the UK. We talk about the Tate Modern, Saatchi, Haunch of Venison and White Cube, Tilo...; Read article

Tony Lloyd-Lost Highways: Ashley Crawford interviews Tony Lloyd about his survey exhibition Lost Highways on at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale from 19 Sep 2009 - 08 Nov 2009; Read article

Anna White -“Shadow of Painting”: When “sound” is replaced by “shadow”, in this citation from Levinas, it tells a lot about Anna White’s painting. In short, White’s painting is a shadow of the painterly surface. Her work inhabits a space in between....; Read article

Podcast Eps-2: his week the Artinfo team discusses David Ralph's new show Extensions at Arc One Gallery, David Noonan at ACCA, Katherine Huang at....; Read article

Podcast Eps-1: Our first Artinfo.com.au Podcast; Read article

Reversal of Graffiti Subversive: Recently, there have been several news stories related to artists and graffiti. Japanese contemporary artist Nara Yoshitomo was....; Read article

The Taiwan Art Market Now: Despite the worldwide economic recession, art galleries are booming in Taiwan. In the past half year, 5 contemporary galleries opened in Taipei City and several in other areas. Last week, one of the most established Indian galleries, Sakshi, opened in Taipei City as well. It is their first branch outside...; Read article

Cops shut down Henson show: AAP reports that Henson and Roslyn Oxley Gallery are under police investigation; Read article

Platform: Collections in the Underground has been running for two years now. It was established by Anita King and Sophie Mcalpin from Bird Girl, together with the girls from Queen and a name is a....; Read article

" Spoil "- Sam Leach: Sam Leach is having a exhibition at Nellie Castan gallery from 2nd of June 2007 to 24th , Tony Woods takes this opportunity to have chat with Leach.; Read article

Antipodean Bestiary: Jazmina Cininas was born in Australia from Lithuanian descent. Her prints and...; Read article

Nothing Rhymes with failure: Victoria Park Gallery was establish by a group of young Melbourne artists and operates as a rental Gallery space. The old men of Artinfo braved the young artists.....; Read article

Silk Cut: The Silk Cut Award for linocut prints is a national award for Australian printmakers. The Award, in its eleventh year has two categories, the open section open to professional artists and the Student category open to schools across Australia.; Read article

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