Profile for Populuxe
Member Since: 10 Aug 2005Total Topics: 19
Total Comments: 495
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Gordon Walters would be turning in his grave
In a relatively short space of time the Walters Prize "New Zealand's largest art award" has become largely irrlevant, if not entirely embarassing.
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Populuxe
16 May 2008
in Rants
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auguststoned
1 Nov 2008 12:54 am
My Xmas Gift to You
Three delightful "articles" on "art" from everyone's favourite parody newspaper the Onion - so true, so true.
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Populuxe
15 Dec 2007
in Art Theory and History
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cadmium hed
21 Dec 2007 1:52 am
Trekking
I'm still reeling from how 'gay' the design for the Art Trek brochures was - pink triangles on powder blue, and then you expect me to get into a cattle car without telling me where we are going...
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Populuxe
22 Nov 2007
in Reviews
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Artbasher
4 Dec 2007 10:21 pm
Justin Paton to be new curator at CAG
I shamelessly lift the following from www.stuff.co.nz and hope Fairfak doesn't send me to the gas chambers: Paton new curator at gallery.
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Populuxe
15 Aug 2007
in Press Releases
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hedwig
19 Oct 2007 7:14 pm
Distinct Lack of Gravitas
Populuxe - aka that art critic people most revile: Andrew Paul Wood - gets excited by Eddie Clemens' Centre of Gravity at The Physics Room (but then he would say that because he's the president of the ...
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Populuxe
29 Mar 2007
in Reviews
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mathew
9 Mar 2008 10:48 pm
How to Become a Rich and Famous Painter in Ten Easy...
Here for free I reveal the coveted secrets of the financially successful painter.
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Populuxe
18 Oct 2006
in Educational Presentations
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Look what I found at the Ray Hughes gallery in Sydn...
This guaranteed untouched woodcut print: Tony de Lautour, "artbash.co.nz" (2006) woodcut, 31 x 23 cm Price: $ 450 (GST inclusive) is in his exhibition at the Ray Hughes gallery in Sydney. How...
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Populuxe
27 Sep 2006
in Artbash
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FOBH
28 Sep 2006 9:35 pm
When Artworks Attack
People outside the art world have no appreciation of the dangers that we within it face every day. Our lives are constantly under threat from one art work or another.
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Populuxe
19 Aug 2006
in Educational Presentations
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william blake
10 Sep 2006 11:41 am
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Hye Rim Lee doesn't exactly make feminist work - more like an Uncle Tom without the culture aspirational qualities to qualify as kitsch.
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20 Jan 2009 5:47 pm reply to So bad it Hurts
I'm actually envious I didn't write this LOL
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6 Jun 2008 5:15 pm reply to Institutional Pipe Dream ...
