Not long after her Sydney Biennale exhibition Louise Bourgeois, famed French-born American sculptor, has passed away in New York aged 98
Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday [...]
UK Artist, Richard Grayson sent an email to a bunch of country rock musicians from Erskinville, Sydney to see if they would rewrite and perform Handel’s Messiah for no money.
How could they refuse?
The resulting video work, Messiah, 2004 transforms George Fredric Handel’s 1742 Oratorio, ‘The Messiah’ for the Sydney Biennale.
In the work, Australian band “The [...]
Also at Cockatoo Island, Australian artist Peter Hennessey presents a vast new sculptural work, My Hubble ( The Universe turned in on itself / 2010 ).
This 1:1 life-size ‘re-enactment’ of the Hubble Space Telescope – a space-based observatory that has revolutionised astronomy by providing deep and clear views of the universe – is constructed out of [...]
Berlin-based French artist Kader Attia fills one of the cavernous spaces in Cockatoo Island’s Turbine Hall with a 312-square-metre patchwork of corrugated iron and scrap roofing materials. The series of shanty town roofs collected by the artist, reflecting the conditions in which the majority of the world’s population lives, are installed at different angles to [...]
“The Feast of Trimalchio /2009″ by AES+F , is a nine- channel animation of over 75,000 photographs. With panoramic, immersive, sumptuous colour and a loud symphonic soundtrack, it depicts a contemporary version of a famous scene from Petronius’s Satyricon.
In this neo-Brechtian twenty-first-century version, an orgy of consumerism reflects on the contemporary state of both Russia [...]
Laurie Anderson was born June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Art History from Barnard College in 1969. In 1972 she received an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University. During the mid 1970s she toured extensively, presenting her work in alternative performance spaces throughout the United States [...]
