TAR : This Anagram Reversed

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Thesis

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Thesis : All is Regard
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'The Analects of Robin'

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Holy Instruments

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Holy Instruments of the Passion
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'The Analects of Robin'

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Quack! Quack quack! Quack quack quack!

TAR 

         as Theatre of the Actors of Regard,

         having noted 

         Steven Rendall’s recent exhibition
         What do paintings see? 

         at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
         and Eliza Herndon's

         Daffy Duck in feathers
         regarding

         Daffy Duck in sketch form

         at duck_twacy on Instagram,

         presents :

Theatre of the quackTARs of Regard (pt.2)

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Theatre of the quackTARs of Regard

duck_tracy 

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a female gaze

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* The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such all genders can create films with a female gaze. Wikipedia

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TAR war co-respondent

Theatre of the AnticipaTARy Report
after Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915)
present

‘The journalist Fukuichi Gen'ichiro’
from the series : Instructive models of lofty ambition
1885 - 2023

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Gob Stopper

The Speaking Tour [ Pt 2 ) 

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Third Test - Australia versus South Africa

Day 2 from the Sydney Cricket Ground 

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Vale Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)

   

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First catch your self.

Who are You: Australian Portraiture

National Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre: 

NGV Australia 23 Jun - 1 Aug 2022 

memo review by Rex Butler, 25 Jun 2022

Self-portrait 

see : First catch your self.

after misquotation: ‘First catch your hare.’

A proverbial warning against overconfidence, often thought to have originated in a recipe for hare soup in Mrs Glasse’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) or Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1851). It does not appear in either book, although Mrs Glasse’s book does have the instruction ‘Take your hare when it is cased [=skinned].’ In more general terms, this appears to be a common formulation. The Spirit of Farmers’ Museum (1801) has: ‘How to dress a dolphin, first catch a dolphin.’

A source from a much earlier period, the medieval Latin treatise De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, traditionally attributed to the lawyer Henry of Bratton, has the sentence, ‘It is commonly said that one must first catch the deer, and afterwards, when he has been caught, skin him.’

The self is an individual as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference ...

Self - Wikipedia

Self – individuality, from one's own perspective. To each person, self is that ...

Outline of self - Wikipedia

memo : A memorandum (abbrev.: memo; from the Latin memorandum est, "It must be remembered") is a written message that is typically used in a professional setting. Commonly abbreviated "memo," these messages are usually brief and are designed to be easily and quickly understood.

Memorandum - Wikipedia 

Rex writes :

... Equally, in Who Are You, in an insightful and quite moving selection, the curators include John Nixon’s Self Portrait (Non-Objective Composition) (Yellow Cross) (1990) at the entrance to the fourth room of the show. It’s a cross that now serves, of course, as something of a memorial to Nixon, who died in 2020. In fact, we would suggest, after an initial avant-garde moment inspired by Communism and the Russian Suprematists, sometime in the early ’90s Nixon pursued an equally radical “immanence”: his work is not any more about changing the world but preserving it. The one-day shows, the artist-run spaces, the collaborations, the incessant productivity: Nixon’s practice operates as much as anything as a kind of diary that sought to record or better embody the circumstances in which it was originally made and exhibited. It was just the little art world that gathered around it: Melbourne in the ’90s, 2000s, and 2010s. The different dispositions of similar-looking objects were the attempt to hold together a fragile and precarious moment in time, of which Nixon was the centre. And it is exactly in this sense that Nixon’s works are self-portraits or autobiographical, the very image of his life. He just is his work.

But again—and this is perhaps the real memorial that Nixon’s work now represents—the function of art as a record of its time, its place, its people, as any kind of image of who we are, is coming to an end. The true equivalent to Nixon’s work today—think here of someone like Peter Tyndall—is keeping a blog, posting on Instagram or tweeting with its potentially limitless subscribers.

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Go ***TAR Yourself

Ukraine reveals ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself!’ postage stamp

The illustration by artist Boris Groh received the most votes and will soon be published by Ukraine's state postal company.

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cogiTAR ergo sum

found meme over 1950s Man Ray photo of Marcel Duchamp

We can't confirm that Duchamp ever said that about ideas, but it did set us to thinking...

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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Today is Sunday. 

Three Sundays ago in New York, members of the Broadway theatre community gathered in tribute to Stephen Sondheim.

Together they sang 'Sunday' from 'Sunday in the Park with George.'

ALL

Sunday,
By the blue, 

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green, 

Purple, yellow, red grass
Let us pass
Through our perfect park,

Pausing on a Sunday
By the cool, 

Blue, triangular water
On the soft, 

Green, elliptical grass
As we pass 

Through arrangements of shadows
Towards the verticals of trees

Forever ...

By the blue

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green

Orange violet mass
Of the grass
In our perfect park,

Made of flecks of light
And dark,

And parasols ...

GEORGE

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Bumbum bum bumbumbum
Bumbum bum ...

ALL
People strolling through the trees
Of a small suburban park
On an island in the river
On an ordinary Sunday
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Below, Lin-Manuel Miranda reads from 'Look, I made a hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)'.

"This is the only lyric I've written that consists of one long incomplete sentence. I wanted it to be like the descriptive caption you might read in a museum next to the painting."

- Stephen Sondheim

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True Believers

   

             It was like when Jesus said, you know, 

             'Eat my body and drink my blood.'

             - Jim Carey (doco)

             Its a way to, like, weed out the crowd.

             - Jim Carey (doco)

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The Coalman Cometh!

This is coal. 

Do not be afraid. 

Do not be scared. 

It will not hurt you.
Scott Morrison 

Parliament House : Feb 2017

Theatre of the Actors of Regard / HAND SPACE  

photo ABC | Nick Haggerty  

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

"I have always believed in miracles." 
Prime Minister Scott Morrison
Election night address : May 2019

Yesterday at Cobargo, this firefighter refused to shake Prime Minister Scott Morrison's hand

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

'Cause for great concern': Australia ranked last in global assessment on climate action
SBS NEWS : 11 Dec 2019

   Australia’s climate policy rating was ranked the lowest in the world with analysts noting that “the newly elected government continued to worsen performance at both national and international levels.”
   Its policies were given a 0.0 rating, in comparison the United Stated ranked one position higher held a 2.8 rating and the top-performing nation Portugal received a 98.7. 

Scott Morrison attempts to shake the hand of a pregnant woman at Cobargo yesterday : click here to watch video

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

Scott Morrison does not want kids to have 'anxieties' about climate change after Greta Thunberg's speech

ABC NEWS : 10 Sept 2019

   Scott Morrison has warned against causing children "needless anxiety" about climate change and suggested Australian kids need to be given more "context and perspective" on the issue.
   Responding to a passionate speech by Swedish teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg at Monday's United Nations Climate Summit, the Prime Minster said it was important Australian children were confident they would live in a "wonderful country and pristine environment".
   "They will also have an economy to live in as well," he said.
   "I don't want our children to have anxieties about these issues.
   "We've got to let kids be kids."
   The Prime Minister has faced criticism from Australian businesspeople and scientists for missing the summit.

Yesterday, this Cobargo resident preferred to tell PM Morrison: 
Nah, you're an idiot, mate. You really are.

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

And this Cobargo resident told Scott Morrison: 
This is not fair. We are totally forgotten down here. Every single time this area gets a flood or a fire, we get nothing. If we lived in Sydney or on the North Coast we would be flooded with donations and emergency relief. How about about the money for our forgotten corner of New South Wales, Mr Prime Minister? How come we only had four trucks to defend our town? Our town doesn’t have a lot of money, but we have hearts of gold.

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

In December, Eamon Sandwith of The Chats updated the Coalman song :
I Hope Scott’s House Burns Down 
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3x TAR

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NGV / Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 India Art Fair / Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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bLOGOS/HA HA / Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 Doug Hall                                                         Anna Schwartz

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