Design and Arts Attacks Artbash

The mystery of the recent plethora of illegible, badly written and uninteresting reviews unearthed!

I'm told students at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand have been instructed, indeed assigned the task of writing a review and publishing it on Artbash.

If you want to find them, (It's easy to pick them (and not just because they're not written by John Hurrell) look for the "I went to X gallery and saw a show by X", (what a great opening sentence!) followed by a brief press-release description of the work and bio of the artist(s)).

• Art with humour yes, but can you write with humour? Or style? Grammar even?
  
• Ata boy! Keep trying, maybe one day you will learn to write!
• When The Sun Rises And The Shadows Flee AKA I like to smoke dope and dream about trippy art.
• sri-fi retro-future (Trashed due to it's near incomprehensibility)

Is this in retaliation for Artbash's unearthing of D&A student plagiarism? Or merely an attempt to take Artbash to a new low, from John Hurrell's stomping ground to one for students who couldn't even get into a real art school?

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Spider You

25 Jul 2007 8:44 pm

1 articles & 107 comments since 22 Mar 2006

haha...well done Art*anker I suspected like-wise...the give-away credit gaining formulas smelt of bad art education.

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John Hurrell

25 Jul 2007 9:00 pm

122 articles & 1507 comments since 3 Dec 2005

Hey, why the indignation? If you scroll through some of the Wellington and (occasional) Auckland reviews there are student writers present. Remember everybody has to start somewhere and art criticism needs to be nourished in this country. Let's not scare them away. We need a lot more writers for Artbash. Especially in Christchurch. The only thing we need to get rid of is the use of pseudonyns.

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MR

26 Jul 2007 11:53 am

218 comments since 21 Jul 2007

Sadly some of those are rather similar to the reviews we see in The Press, which are often more like press releases than reviews as well. The thing I would suggest to potential critics-reviewers is to have an opinion and be bold enough to express it! give your reader something to think about rather than just a bland description of whats in the show.

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grafik-artz

26 Jul 2007 2:50 pm

1 articles & 2 comments since 7 Jun 2007

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grafik-artz

26 Jul 2007 2:53 pm

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John Hurrell

30 Jul 2007 9:32 pm

122 articles & 1507 comments since 3 Dec 2005

Good on the Arts and Design College students for giving reviewing a go. I hope they can contribute more to help keeping this site's readers informed. They needn't worry about a little criticism. The first thing all art reviewers have to learn is to develop the hide of a rhino. They learn to have confidence in their opinions and not get fazed when people get upset by what they read.

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Charlie.Diplock

22 Nov 2011 1:05 pm

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Is this arts & design school in South Island worthy of sending your children to learn a skill, a career and a future?

Given what happens to Christchurch recently I wonder if the college would be motivated to dip deep in their pockets to restore this art school and its teaching facilities?

Any comments from anyone would be appreciated.

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