August 2005 Issue 182

1 How might one live: The 51st Venice Biennale: DENNIS DEL FAVEROZwelethu Mthethwa [South Africa], Flex(video still), 2002, video. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy2 Dear Hilary — **1 How might one live: The 51st Venice Biennale: DENNIS DEL FAVERO**
Zwelethu Mthethwa [South Africa], *Flex*(video still), 2002, video. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
**2 Dear Hilary**

3 St Petersburg 1900: Russian art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia: ALAN R DODGEIvan Ivanovich Shishkin, Winter, 1890, oil on canvas. Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg — **3 St Petersburg 1900: Russian art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia: ALAN R DODGE**
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, *Winter*, 1890, oil on canvas. Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

4 Book Review: Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography, Saskia Folk REVIEWED by DRUSILLA MODJESKAHelen Ennis, Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography, National Gallery of Australia, 2005 250 pp $49.95 RRP — **4 Book Review: *Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography*, Saskia Folk REVIEWED by DRUSILLA MODJESKA**
Helen Ennis, *Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography,* National Gallery of Australia, 2005
250 pp $49.95 RRP

5 Book Review: Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata, Bruce Adams REVIEWED BY ANN STEPHENBruce Adams, Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata, The University of Chicago Press, 2004, 284 pp $60.00 RRP — **5 Book Review: *Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata,* Bruce Adams REVIEWED BY ANN STEPHEN**
Bruce Adams, *Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata,* The University of Chicago Press, 2004, 284 pp $60.00 RRP

6 Amazing Grace: Thoughts inspired by the Grace Cossington Smith exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra: VIRGINIA SPATEGrace Cossington Smith, Bush at evening, 1947, oil on hardboard. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wal… — **6 *Amazing Grace*: Thoughts inspired by the Grace Cossington Smith exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra: VIRGINIA SPATE**
Grace Cossington Smith, *Bush at evening*, 1947, oil on hardboard. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

7 A fourth-dimensional emotion: JENNY MCFARLANEGrace Cossington Smith, Hand-drawn copy of Beatrice Irwin, Chart of ‘The Three Colour Systems with Their Subdivisions’ (in New Science of Colour, 1916), 1924, pencil, watercolour and ink. Courtesy of th… — **7 A fourth-dimensional emotion: JENNY MCFARLANE**
Grace Cossington Smith, Hand-drawn copy of Beatrice Irwin, Chart of ‘The Three Colour Systems with Their Subdivisions’ (in New Science of Colour, 1916), 1924, pencil, watercolour and ink. Courtesy of the Estate of Grace Cossington Smith

8 Neo-medievalism: ADAM GECZYIllustration: Erica Jane, Sad apple theoretically peeled, 2005. Computer-generated image poorly pixelated for ultimate grunge quality video effect — **8 Neo-medievalism: ADAM GECZY**
Illustration: Erica Jane, *Sad apple theoretically peeled*, 2005. Computer-generated image poorly pixelated for ultimate grunge quality video effect

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