Word: artiste
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...National Gallery of Victoria until Oct. 7, some of these will rub shoulders with cutting-edge contemporaries such as performance artist Marina Abramovic, photographer Gregory Crewdson and Matthew Barney, who refuses to be confined to one medium. The latter also happens to grace Peggy's palazzo, albeit very oddly, in the current show "All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys." Rylands imagines Guggenheim "would have been intrigued and bemused" by Barney's Baroque video antics. Still, "the avant-garde experience is absolutely Peggy's spirit"-one that's intoxicating Melbourne right...
...wait-as in a late-night steak-knife commercial, there's more. Equally impressive are the works of skater video artist Shaun Gladwell, epic landscape photographer Rosemary Laing and conceptualist Christian Capurro, all invited by Biennale director Robert Storr to show independently in the Italian pavilion and Arsenale. Capurro, in particular, stopped traffic with his intriguing project, Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, which had invited hundreds of people to erase the pages of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes, clocking up over 260 hours and turning the magazine (by Capurro's calculation) into an $A11,349.18 work...
...Then there's No. 7: In Emily Jacir's Material for a Film, 2005, the New York-based Palestinian artist presents various "documents" surrounding the 1972 assassination of activist Wael Zuaiter by Mossad agents in Rome as an absorbing artistic picture puzzle. At center stage are the letters of Zuaiter's friend, Sydney-born painter Janet Venn-Brown, who helps bring him to life for a film never shot in an art work that haunts the mind...
...scene's rising stars is Balinese artist Dewa Gede Ratayoga. At the 27-year-old's first show, held in Jakarta's Ark Galerie last April, all of the giant hyper-realist canvases were sold by the end of the opening night, some for as much as $5,000. By international reckoning this was a small sum, but by Indonesian standards it was an extraordinary haul by a young unknown. "This is the beginning of a new trend," says Bruce Wallace, chief representative in Indonesia of UBS, the bank that helped sponsor the show. "When quality comes on the market...
...typical Roman history tour begins with the tomb of an ancient emperor and winds down with the works of your Renaissance-era artist-of-choice. But perched atop the Janiculum hill - with St. Peter's over the north slope, and a splendid view of ancient Rome sprawled out to the east - stands an imposing monument to a more modern and no less fascinating hero of the past. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary 19th century general who helped liberate and unify what became the modern state of Italy, has a place in history that both defines and transcends Italianita. For the bicentennial...