July 2011 Issue 241

1 Imagining the Future: Awfully Wonderful at Performance Space, Sydney: ANDREW FROSTHayden Fowler, Anthropocene, 2011, mixed media installation and performance. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Lucy Parahkina — **1 Imagining the Future: Awfully Wonderful at Performance Space, Sydney: ANDREW FROST**
Hayden Fowler, *Anthropocene*, 2011, mixed media installation and performance. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Lucy Parahkina

2 Adam Norton’s Mars Gravity Simulator: ALTAIR ROELANTSAndrew Norton, Mars Gravity Simulator, 2001, installation views, Performance Space, Sydney. Images courtesy the artist and Performance Space, Sydney — **2 Adam Norton’s Mars Gravity Simulator: ALTAIR ROELANTS**
Andrew Norton, *Mars Gravity Simulator*, 2001, installation views, Performance Space, Sydney. Images courtesy the artist and Performance Space, Sydney

3 The Golden Thread: Hany Armanious at the Venice Biennale: JOHN KELLYHany Armanious, The Golden Thread, 2011, installation views, the Australian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, 2011. Images courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, and Au… — **3 The Golden Thread: Hany Armanious at the Venice Biennale: JOHN KELLY**
Hany Armanious, *The Golden Thread*, 2011, installation views, the Australian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, 2011. Images courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, and Australia Council for the Arts

4 Trailing the Summit: An Australian-Indian conversation: DEEKSHA NATH, VIKKI McINNES, NATALIE KING & BALA STARR Praneet Soi, Piggyback, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 164 x 122cm. Image courtesy the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi — **4 Trailing the Summit: An Australian-Indian conversation: DEEKSHA NATH, VIKKI McINNES, NATALIE KING & BALA STARR**

Praneet Soi, *Piggyback*, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 164 x 122cm. Image courtesy the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

5 Towards a Singaporean Arte Povera: JOHN MATEERStuart Ringholt, Untitled (Low Sculpture) #1, 2008,43 objects, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney. Photograph by Singapore Art Museum — **5 Towards a Singaporean Arte Povera: JOHN MATEER**
Stuart Ringholt, *Untitled (Low Sculpture) #1*, 2008,43 objects, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney. Photograph by Singapore Art Museum

6 Chilling Talismans: a First Life brotherhood: ASHLEY CRAWFORDA First Life Residency Project in Landscape, installation views at Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art Beijing, 2011, with ( left, foreground) Wu Daxin’s Ashley’s heart, 2011, bron… — **6 Chilling Talismans: a First Life brotherhood: ASHLEY CRAWFORD**
*A First Life Residency Project in Landscape*, installation views at Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art Beijing, 2011, with ( left, foreground) Wu Daxin’s Ashley’s heart, 2011, bronze tube and refrigeration compressor; and (right, foreground) Shi Jinsong’s The Opposite Bank, 2011, carbon wood
**7 Is The Contemporary Era Behind Us?: VAUGHN PINXIT**

8 Dear Jennifer: JENNIFER MILLS‘Group 5’, from the exhibition/series What’s in a name?, 2011, watercolour on paper, dimensions variable. images courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney — **8 Dear Jennifer: JENNIFER MILLS**
‘*Group 5*’, from the exhibition/series *What’s in a name?*, 2011, watercolour on paper, dimensions variable.
images courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

9 Malu Minar: Art of the Torres Strait – The Cairns Regional Gallery takes Torres Strait culture to the world: KATRINA CHAPMANBrian Robinson, Tagai, guardian of the heavens, 2007, linocut printed in black ink from one block, 60.5 x 200cm. Cairns Reg… — **9 Malu Minar: Art of the Torres Strait – The Cairns Regional Gallery takes Torres Strait culture to the world: KATRINA CHAPMAN**
Brian Robinson, *Tagai, guardian of the heavens*, 2007,
linocut printed in black ink from one block, 60.5 x 200cm. Cairns Regional Gallery Collection

10 This Way Up: romancing the paint: YOLANDE NORRISDan Zhu, Figure 2, 2010, acrylic on board, 122 x 91cm — **10 This Way Up: romancing the paint: YOLANDE NORRIS**
Dan Zhu, *Figure 2*, 2010, acrylic on board, 122 x 91cm

11 Micky Allan at CCAS: MELINDA HINKSONNada and the whale (detail), 2010-11,watercolour, mixed media, each work 20 x 20cm — **11 Micky Allan at CCAS: MELINDA HINKSON**
*Nada and the whale* (detail), 2010-11,watercolour, mixed media, each work 20 x 20cm

12 Justin Paton at the AGNSW: Digressing, Wandering, Wondering …: PRUE GIBSON & JUSTIN PATONJustin Paton photographed in the studio of painter Judy Millar — **12 Justin Paton at the AGNSW: Digressing, Wandering, Wondering …: PRUE GIBSON & JUSTIN PATON**
Justin Paton photographed in the studio of painter Judy Millar

13 American Dreams: a terrible beauty: MEGAN SPENCERWalker Evans, Torn Poster, Truro, Massachusetts,1930, gelatin silver contact print. Purchased with funds from National Endowment for the Arts — **13 American Dreams: a terrible beauty: MEGAN SPENCER**
Walker Evans, *Torn Poster*, Truro, Massachusetts,1930, gelatin silver contact print. Purchased with funds from National Endowment for the Arts

14 The Lady Vanishes (or, An Adventure in conoisseurship): DAVID HANSENEdward Close (attrib.) Sydney in all its Glory, folio from late 1810s sketchbook. Image courtesy Sotheby’s Australia — **14 The Lady Vanishes (or, An Adventure in conoisseurship): DAVID HANSEN**
Edward Close (attrib.) *Sydney in all its Glory*, folio from late 1810s sketchbook. Image courtesy Sotheby’s Australia

15 BOOKS: Irresponsible pictures: CEFN RIDOUTManga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater Eric P. Nash, Abrams ComicArts, 2009 304pp, rrp$US35.00, ISBN: 9780810953031The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga Helen McCarthy, Abrams ComicArts, 2009… — **15 BOOKS: *Irresponsible pictures*: CEFN RIDOUT**
*Manga Kamishibai:* *The Art of Japanese Paper Theater*
Eric P. Nash, Abrams ComicArts, 2009
304pp, rrp$US35.00, ISBN: 9780810953031
*The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga*
Helen McCarthy, Abrams ComicArts, 2009
272pp, rrp$US40.00, ISBN: 9780810982499

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