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...popular taste in the process. He was able to do this by painting the world most Australians know. In the final rooms of the exhibition - among canvases the size of billboards that seem to advertise domestic life in hues nothing less than electric - curator Jason Smith rides the theme that will surely take his show across the finish line. "Suburbia is our landscape," he says. "We build it, we live in it, we grow up in it. Our lives are conducted here. This is the landscape that conditions us, whether we like...
...abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush, but this isn't something the new book makes clear. Instead, Gregory (and Smith in the show) bring new insights to Arkley's work by exploring the carnival theme. From his Zappo heads to his aborted 1985 exhibition of masked portraits to his fluoro rendition of the Prince of Darkness, Nick Cave, 1999, Arkley was forever fascinated by the masks people must wear...
...director, the stars, the country. Another Italian film of less reputable pedigree turned into a hit: the shock-documentary Mondo Cane, on which we can blame not just a raft of cheap-n-sleazy Mondo movies but the wedding-reception standard "More," which had been Mondo Cane's theme song...
...added commerce as another theme after deciding the show would take place in the former OfficeMax store...
...chairs of the Democrats' House and Senate campaign committees, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, announced a joint closing theme for the party on Monday morning: "Time for a New Direction on Iraq," and urged their voters to send a message rejecting what Emanuel calls "the Bush-Rumsfeld strategy in Iraq." Democrats say they were buoyed over the weekend by an Army Times editorial calling for Rumsfeld's resignation, as well as excerpts from an upcoming Vanity Fair article quoting key neoconservatives expressing pessimism about Iraq. "These pieces got us away from the broken...