December 2011
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“A river of raw canvas cuts across the vast expanse of this orange painting....”
– www.moma.org
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Helen Frankenthaler
Strange feelings when you hear about the death of an artist. If only the authors of such fine arts were as timeless and invincible and potent as their products.  It was two years ago that I first stood in the upstairs atrium of MoMA on my second visit to New York City and admired two huge colour field paintings by Frankenthaler. Chairman of the Board was one of those works. Half mesmerised by the...
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“Pip and Pop’s utopic cosmology manifests in we miss you magic land, a seductive...”
– Clare Murphy
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we made a glitter world
My summer technically began when I ate a Magnum in a petrol station car park on the afternoon of November 14. It felt a little stronger when I took my first ocean swim at Burleigh Beach on November 27. But in Brisbane, summer really kicks-in when you pay your first seasonal visit to GoMA. There are always decent free exhibition on at this time of year. A couple of galleries on the lower floor are...
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