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Elizabeth Pearce | September 19, 2016
Paul, 2014, is a creepy man-child self-portrait (of sorts), by Melbourne-based artist Ronnie van Hout. His sleepwalking pose and little boy PJs cue us for cuteness, so the craggy face is discomforting
Elizabeth Pearce | August 24, 2016
Painter, 1995, by Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy, regularly tops our list of works most hated by Mona visitors. I have avoided writing about it for a long time, because that would entail sitting through the whole thing...
Sunday Walsh | August 8, 2016
My name is Sunday Walsh. Apropos of nothing, I just had my first birthday. The relevance of that, apparently, is that the angle subtended by the Earth-sun system through the plane of the ecliptic is the same as that angle when I was born.
Elizabeth Pearce | July 12, 2016
Mike Parr’s Asylum [Entry by mirror only] was an exhibition and performance that took place during our most recent Dark Mofo festival. Parr took up residence at Willow Court, New Norfolk – a clutch of buildings that once housed Australia’s oldest asylum for the criminally insane.
David Walsh | June 21, 2016
When we went to see the LHC there were a few Large Hangovers Colliding. We acquired these hangovers the previous night, celebrating Olivier's birthday ('What's good for a hangover? Drinking a lot the night before').