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...senior lecturer in art and design at Monash University, Gregory also happens to be the brother-in-law of Arkley's widow, Alison Burton, and Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley (Cambridge University Press; 214 pages) benefits from intimate access to the artist's studio archive. Here, an entry gleaned from one of his student notebooks - "I offer the following as an example of my state of mind... hint: there could be something that at first seems false. but things are never what they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this...
...Killers “Bones” Dir. Tim Burton...
...Burton does kill The Killers. We get a lingering last shot of their disassembled bones lying on the ground; and for that, at least, the indie kids can be thankful...
Picking Tim Burton to direct “Bones,” then, works well, since both he and the Killers are mainstream populists masquerading as alternative visionaries. The song’s bone imagery plays into Burton’s undead fetish, and he directs a tediously straightforward video...
...well-worn cinematic beach love scenes (we need a moratorium on parodies of “From Here to Eternity” and “10”). The girl is Devon Aoki, of “Sin City” fame; she looks bored. Probably because Burton can’t make Flowers interesting. He moves woodenly. He may have the looks of a frontman, but not the charm, and this video exposes his bare-bones talent...