Musings

Los Angeles art binge

This year has been so busy, between writing commissions and stepping in as the Publications Editor at the Biennale of Sydney and running the National Gallery’s Digital Young Writers Residency that I haven’t known which way is up.

It’s been a good problem to have but a bit of literal distance has made me appreciate it all the more.

I’ve just got back from a trip to LA with my Mum and sister and so this is just a shameless grab of photos of some of the extraordinary art we saw. Proof of (artistic) life and a reminder of the joys of just looking at art.

Some of the highlights:

Ed Ruscha and Simone Leigh at LACMA, Mickalene Thomas at The Broad, Josh Kline at MOCA, WInfred Rembert at Hauser & Wirth….


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Melbourne work trip

I’ve been in Melbourne for a few days - doing some commissioned interviews with artists and curators about living with art for a new book publication and meeting up with some of the Melbourne cohort for the National Young Writers Residency.

I took the opportunity to see a few exhibitions while I was here - From the Other Side at ACCA, Sarah Ujmaia’s Marmoreum at Gertrude Contemporary and the Triennial at the NGV. Some works that I will obsess over and remember for a very long time and some conversations that will also stay with me - about flea markets and travel and hoarding and taste and the ways we express ourselves and our values.


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Recommended reading - Teen Vogue

“Teen Art Councils are Pushing for Change at Prestigious Museums.”

This is a brilliant article by Claire Voon for Teen Vogue on the current activism of a number of youth councils at museums across the United States. I had the privilege to meet with many of these organisations (and their young people) during my Churchill Fellowship last year, including the Brooklyn Museum, MCA Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and it just brings home to me, again, how truly transformative these programs can be.

Read the full article here.

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