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Cemeteries as Sculpture Gardens A bronze hound guards its owner’s grave. A bronze woman weeps on the steps of a tomb. An army of marble angels stands watch, wings folded, adorning tombs and mausoleums. This post is about another place I missed in my “Art beyond the Art Gallery”—cemeteries. Cemetery sculpture, like other forms of public sculpture, has a […]
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The Melbourne Art Library I now have a library card for a new library in Coburg. The old Railway Station, a narrow red-brick nineteenth-century station building now under the new overhead railway line, has been turned into a specialist library, the Melbourne Art Library. The art library has art and design books, rather than being a library that loans […]
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Street Art, October 2025 A look at some street art and several notable locations around Melbourne during October 2025. The fame of Hosier Lane, coupled with its convenient location, makes it a victim of its own success. Tourists continue to take selfies there, regardless of the quality of the pieces on the walls. The best new addition has to […]
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The Genius of Chromatavore This is genius-level placement. I’ve written about the importance of placement in street art before, but this is one step beyond finding the perfect location for a piece. The paste-up bird is not transparent; it is printed on opaque paper, as you can see from the white parts. It has been carefully placed over the […]
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Unseen – Art Crime in Australia There is the seen, and there is the unseen; likewise, there is history, and there is un-history. Just because something is unseen doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, as do the unmentioned, the under-acknowledged and underrepresented parts of history. Un-history is what is untold, not discussed, the blind spots in the narratives. In art history, money, […]
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