Sleepless nights

Two festivals will take place for one night only, from sunset to sunrise: Glow in Santa Monica (25 Sept) and Nuit Blanche in Toronto (2 Oct). Glow 2010 will commission 20 original artworks specifically for this one-night event. Artists include Anne Bray (Los Angeles), Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (Séte, France), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Yoshua Okón (Mexico City) and Steve Roden (Los Angeles) . Nuit Blanche Toronto will organize more than 130 free and accessible contemporary art projects within 3 zones. Each zone features a mixture of Exhibition Projects and Independent Projects.

Experience art in unexpected places...

Exhibition of the week: Lisa Munnelly

The artist is interested in providing a ‘temporal and corporeal account of the drawing process’; that is, in investigating the relationship between drawing, time and the body. These are works which acknowledge that seeing takes time; the title of the exhibition refers not only to the work involved in their conception and realisation, but also to the physical experience of seeing them. Rather than re-present an image or idea, according to the practice of conventional drawing, these works operate in the immediate tense, to present energy, time and space on visual terms.

Compelling, mesmerising... pure poetry. Don't miss out on her performance films too.

Exhibition of the week: Brit Bunkley

Sure, terrorism, impending nuclear war, Stalinist infiltration, fascist dictatorship, the neoliberal war on democracy, global warming, the end of oil, stock market crashes, destruction of the biosphere and rogue asteroids are all realities. They have been for decades. These threats are also ameliorated by the possibilities of innate human creativity, critical thinking, the thirst for freedom, courage, the ability to adapt and change and the catharsis within real tragic drama. (Brit Bunkley)


Brit Bunkley, Don't Worry Be Happy
Wednesday 18 August - 12 September @ Mary Newton Gallery

The Pop-Up Phenomenon (3)

Suite Gallery is the latest one to pop-up a temporary space. Their aim is to supplement shows on at their main gallery in Newtown and provide them with an opportunity to host projects they wouldn't ordinarily be able to host.

Opening this Sunday... Suite Pop-up Gallery @ 108 Oriental Parade...