Gilbert Grace

YouTube video by The Australia Institute There's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 Apostles

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"...As of now, original artworks and photographs remain exempt from recently announced tariffs on U.S. imports.

We’ve confirmed ... collectors in the United States will not face additional duties or tariffs when purchasing original artworks from abroad..."

'Fleeting' exhibition of oils on canvas. Open Wed - Sun, 10-5. Closes 20 April 2025. Newsagency Gallery, 332 Stanmore Rd, Petersham, NSW.

Image: Gilbert Grace, '36 Views of Fleurieu - Farmhouse #1' oil 20.7 x 29.5cm

Maybe the problem isn’t critical thinking, but how we assess it There is a growing concern that Australia’s university students lack critical thinking, but maybe the problem is how we teach and assess it, say University of Melbourne experts.

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Upcoming exhibition. Gilbert Grace - Fleeting.
Paintings in oils at Newsagency Gallery, Petersham, NSW. Opening 28 March 2025.

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My life as a crash test poppet.

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YouTube video by Apeiron Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Life is a smorgasbord, smothered with Bernay's sauce. youtu.be/revWgCdPyQQ?...

Faith groups mobilize to keep fighting climate change as Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris accord » Yale Climate Connections Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of ful...

"While some evangelical leaders have backed Trump’s dismissal of climate science, most faith leaders say the teachings in the Bible, the Torah, the Quran, and other sacred texts compel people to be good stewards of the Earth and care for each other."

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Australia Drops Its 2026 Venice Biennale Artist After Controversy over Video Featuring Hezbollah Leader Khaled Sabsabi was dropped as Australia's 2026 Venice Biennale pick after controversy over a video featuring a Hezbollah video.

Netanyahu, Drumpf, Political funding laws, now this...

"Sabsabi and Dagostino issued a joint statement in which they wrote, “Art should not be censored as artists reflect the times they live in.”

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Yes, energy prices are hurting the food sector. But burning more fossil fuels is not the answer Evidence suggests burning more coal and gas will damage many industries. So why are food distributors lobbying for more fossil fuels?

Experiments with evaporative cooling, think the Coolgardie Safe, and with agriponicos, aquaponics, local farmlets in urban areas, are art, science, and future food rolled into one.
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Tariff Confusion Rattles Art Trade | Artnet News What President Trump's tariffs may mean for the art trade. Plus, Sotheby's restructures its global business development division.

Investors need clarity and surety - Just ask Drumpf.

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Ai Weiwei Speaks Out On DeepSeek's Chilling Responses The Chinese-owned AI chatbot’s refusal to answer questions about the dissident artist and activist is “quite telling,” Ai said in a statement to Hyperallergic.

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Drumpf - your new Mob Boss. youtu.be/S3FZcGjPGRY?...

Smoke inhalation — even for seconds - can impair consciousness.

To anyone in the immediate vicinity of this unprecedented fire in the nations most populous county, urgently heed the evacuation orders NOW.

Smoke is as dangerous as the flames behind them.

The Story Behind Our Art Handlers Exposé Hyperallergic · Episode

Word to the wise.

The Story Behind Our Art Handlers - Expose
Hyperallergic - 29 September 2019
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Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.

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The Economy of Painting: Reflections on the Value of the Canvas Art critic and publisher Isabelle Graw reflects on the tension between art as a commodity and its enduring physical and symbolic value within capitalist systems.

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I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

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Daily Reminder that the USA President-Elect is a CRIMINAL. Did we mention a convicted rapist too?
And he's being handed the keys to the White House!
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Did you forget the art in the liberal arts?

Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets Hrag Vartanian and author Eunsong Kim discuss the hidden power imbalances behind some of the most prominent pieces of 20th-century conceptual art.

"How much of the Modernist archive was canonized by union-busting bosses? How much of conceptual art in the 20th and 21st centuries has been buoyed by the reverence of scientific management (developed for the slave trade)?"
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Did your Family and Friends Discourage You From Becoming an Artist? - RedDotBlog I recently read an article about Richard Branson, serial entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines, where he talked about the reluctance many people feel when trying to...

I love this stuff. It rekindles all the pain and anguish friends, family, church and state have imposed in their attempts to bully, bluff and bullshit me into becoming a blanded-out consumerbot.

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