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Five prejudiced affairs with Mona (or, Anica and Mona, sitting in a tree)
1. The art of knowing whether you are flirting or The art of consuming modern art You never know what to expect, when you first walk in. Something, nothing. Something that turns out to be nothing?...
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Interview with Robyn McKinnon
Robyn McKinnon is a Tasmanian painter. Her work Mrs Vermeer’s Kitchen, part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection, will be shown in our up-coming exhibition, Theatre of the World....
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Hand-jobs in the post-humanist age
Gild the lily 1. To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful. 2. To make superfluous additions to what is already complete. —thefreedictionary.com On Saturday a man who is much cleverer than me...
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Interview with Vernon Ah Kee
Vernon Ah Kee, a Brisbane-based artist, is co-founding member of the Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW. His pencil portrait ‘unwritten #8’ is on show in our exhibition Theatre of the World....
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Interview with Meghan Boody
New York artist Meghan Boody’s bizarre pin-ball death machine, Deluxe Suicide Service, is on display in the museum at the moment. She’s been making a new work for us in her stunning Tribeca tower (i.e....
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New works (in progress): Jeff Gabel and Jan Fabre
Jeff Gabel at work in MONA. Untitled detail (work in progress), ©courtesy of the artist, 2012 Jeff Gabel lives in New York and works in a library. He makes art when he can, ‘because he can’; ‘and just...
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Consider the Fuhrer
By Elizabeth Pearce Did you know Hitler was a vegetarian? You probably did – or, conversely, you are spitting at the screen right now: ‘He was not a vegetarian, that is a myth!’ Indeed, type the key...
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Just a story
By Elizabeth Pearce Tessa Farmer’s The Depraved Pursuit of a Possum will be de-installed on Tuesday. The work is part of The Red Queen exhibition, which opened in June last year; it has taken me since...
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Making fun: Mona and Buchel
– By Elizabeth Pearce The Christoph Buchel exhibition closes next month. It’s notable that it made it thus far. Buchel was incensed at our decision to remove the ‘Are you of Aboriginal descent?’...
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Goya and The Disasters of War
-By Elizabeth Pearce We own one small etching by Francisco Goya, part of his famous series The Disasters of War. It has recently gone on display in the museum. Esto es peor (This is worse);plate 37...
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More Mona
By Elizabeth Pearce When the museum first opened, this artwork, by Jon Pylypchuk, was displayed alongside a ‘spin’ painting by Damien Hirst. It was an odd coupling, one that seemed somehow to demand...
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Gilbert & George: a critique
Elizabeth Pearce I’ve been trying to work out what I think about the art of Gilbert & George. There is much that should not be taken at face value of course, but the democratic element of the work...
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Hound in the Hunt
In the gallery at Mona, there is an exhibition-experiment taking place, called Hound in the Hunt. Read more about it here, and also – for the enthusiastic – watch the documentary Tim’s Vermeer, and get...
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