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Nick Thompson’s BLEED Series

By Octavia Silva | December 22nd, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Australian director/designer/artist Nick Thompson’s just released four-part video series titled “Bleed,” a collaboration with The Drop Studio.

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Portable Presents: The Year in Art

By Sophie Coleman | December 21st, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Portable presents the best artists of 2011, focusing on the weird and wonderful in the realms of video, installation, performance and sculpture art.

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Homey Homewares For The Fashionable

By Lauren Vadnjal | December 20th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Tea cosies to make your tea look cosy, towels for fashionable drying; Melbourne art partners and power-couple Aisling Gallagher and Neil Hargreaves have it printed, packaged and personally perfected for their homewares and textiles brand, Designed in Brunswick.

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Darth Paper

By Genevieve Day | December 19th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

In a galaxy not so far, far away Lobulo Design has created the ultimate Star Wars tribute through the Paper Darth Project.

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Pedone’s Tribute To Yerma

By Sophie Coleman | December 13th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

YermaS is a film by Italian artist Tommaso Pedone on Federico Garcìa Lorca’s controversial and famous character Yerma using Butoh theatre and visual images

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Luis Urculo’s Architecture With Objects

By Sophie Coleman | December 12th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Luis Urculo recreates famous architectural structures using everyday objects in this video titled Covers

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Live As a Villain, Die As a Hero: Steal Banksy

By Angela McCormack | December 9th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Finders, keepers: beat Banksy at his own game and smuggle out an original work worth $15,000.

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More Beautiful Than American Beauty’s Plastic Bag

By Tara Kenny | December 9th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Thirty Six is comprised of a mass of plastic bags which appear as a pulsating, living force as they inflate and deflate, appear and disappear, as controlled by fans which are hidden from the viewer of the piece.

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Adbusting, Czech Style

By Nerida Little | December 8th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Four Czech performance artists scale a rotating billboard and use it as a merry-go-round.

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Figure Scrub

By Madeleine Rebbechi | December 7th, 2011 in Art | Locale:

If you’d forgotten how amazing the human body can be, perhaps it’s time you took a peek at the work of Sweden-born artist Bertil Nilsson.

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