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A wag replied to my last post about highway art by referring to it as highway robbery. Well, we don’t want to characterise all public art as still-born, do we?  So click across to glasscentralcanberra, and see what you see beside Melbourne’s freeway travelling down to the Mornington Peninsula…

Enjoy this eccentric image listed as a Thea Proctor watercolour in the next Bonhams and Goodman auction catalogue. Signed, but no date, no provenance, or argument – or precedent, for that matter. Early postmodern, perhaps? Gotta love the Ingres reference, and the little pink baby totem against the sun tan. Doesn’t seem quite right to me…

Rachel Jesse-Rae O’Connor recommends you don’t miss the Felt Tip Pen Show in Melbourne at Rear View Gallery (Rear of 244 Smith Street Collingwood – enter via Stanley Street.) with some of Melbourne’s best felt tip pen artists… Jeff Steele, HyperColourCastle, Neli0, Fred Fowler, Mandy Ord, Tim Danko, M.P Fikaris ,Sam Wallman, Cougar Flashy, Michael Hawkins, Tim Molloy, Textaqueen, Lucien Spectre, Steph Hicks, RJRAE, Stewart Cole, Tom O’Hern, Makatron, James Reka, Gosia Wlodarczak courtesy the artist and Arc Onc Galley, Melbourne, Alice Mrongovius, Richard B-B, Trevelyan Clay, Sam Karmel and Claire Tracey. Curated by RJROC and and Micheal Fikaris. The show runs till the 24th wed – sun 12-6pm.

The artwork is by Melbourne based Fred Fowler.

And don’t forget! RJROC’s next show at ArtWranglers opens 8th May.

…was a quarter of a century ago. We were being sold our first Macintosh. Do yourself a favour, go to YouTube and see how Ridley Scott made the first Mac commercial. Launched at the Superbowl. Maximum exposure. “… you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984″.

Two things have brought on this rush of nostalgia. One was the Radio National interview with Peter Singer on robotic warfare this morning. The second was the annoying book I am reading which suggested that artists in the West were not producing images about war or the arms race during the eighties.

Then I remembered this Sydney University Art Workshop poster still glued to the wall at the Art School, image by Nigel Lendon, printed by Pam Debenham. That’s how it was, pre-Macintosh.

Ever had that experience when the meaning of a logo gets away from you? Will we ever know the specifics of this sighting on Northbourne Avenue? Christine sends us off to the Shree Jagannath Dham Puri temple site at Orissa, where if you go to the Photo Gallery, you will find The Lord and Sankhakhetra… On Wikipedia you will find an image of Jagganath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra which seem to be related… Still doesn’t tell us what the truck is doing – a mobile temple?

looms over Grange House and Park in downtown Toronto. The break-out staircase, nicknamed “the barnacle”, is on the back wall of the new galleries of the Frank Gehry (re)designed Art Gallery of Ontario. Clearly it was not enough for FG to simply clad the “back” of the building in titanium or stainless steel. No matter how well it might frame the original 1816 building, it seems that even the back wall also has to say something about the interior life of the building. And the view is apparently quite special! We like it just as much as the other more spectacular details of the front and interior of the AGO we’ve posted previously. Add Gehry or AGO to the search box and you’ll see them all. Thanks to Max for the image and info… (For lots more, go to Craig James Whites’ photostream on Flickr).

Unbeknownst to us, (so how innocent are we?), we’ve been advised there are some serious “other” Wranglers out there! See this Wikipedia entry and be awed… We particularly like “The term ‘Senior Wrangler’ became synonymous with academic supremacy.” Henceforth this blogwrangler will be addressed as “Senior Wrangler”, thank you.

for all the snaps in all their glory you’ll have to cross to megan’s blog at glasscentralcanberra