TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]

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poem to the see after Cy [ canvas offcut )

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TAR presents : Twombly, the Ancient Remains

Cy Twombly moved to Italy from the USA in 1957.

His ‘Poems to the Sea’ suite of twenty-four drawings were executed in a single day in 1959.

Twombly lived north of Rome at Bassano in Teverina. “Downstream from the city centre, not far away from the Tiber, lies Lake Vadimo, locally known as the "Pond", described by Pliny the Younger as "a lying wheel with a regular circumference [...] paler, greener and more intense than the sea." - Wikipedia

At the 1988 Venice Biennale he exhibited paintings responding to the Bassano in Teverina “Pond” along with unpainted plaster sculptures. Henry Weatherfield chanced upon that exhibition just hours before leaving Venice, that one time visit. “Paler, greener and more intense than the sea is the see", he later wrote.

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Twombly of the AssisTARed Readymade

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TAR : The Art Race

 Four runners, their barrows and a marker post.

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 Susie was fourth that time.

 Declared a draw!

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TAR : Taking After Redon

The exhibition 'Photography and the Performative' at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum, displays a work by Imants Tillers, If I close my eyes. His instagram website describes it thus :

Curated by Katrina Liberiou, the show explores the intersection between photography and performance.

Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection

This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”

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‘Taking After Redon’ re-imagines ‘If I close my eyes’ with the views of Sirius Cove replaced by views of Odilon Redon’s ‘Les yeux clos’ (Closed Eyes) c.1890.

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dependent-arising : space-time-conscious : before-after Donald Judd

Today, this :

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Fifty years ago, regarding 'Some Recent American Art' at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne :

Some years earlier, Theatre of the Actors of Regard (Bendigo)

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Telling the children about TAR [ The Art of Rego )

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Theatre of the Artists who Read
recommends
when next at the NGV Shop
you shout yourself PETER TYNDALL

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design by Ela Egidy and Tristan Main
essays by Doug Hall, Claire Roberts, PT
photography by Christian Capurro
published 2023 by Buxton Contemporary

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TAR (Tomorrow-AudiTARium-Registration)

To AudiTARium : Register 

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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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TAR (The Alternative Render) presents

The Alternative Render

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TAR (Trauma of the Arid ReplicaTAR) presents

‘The Persecution and Assassination of Pierre Bonnard as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of TAR Under the Direction of the Marquis de TAR’, usually shortened to Bonnard/TAR (pronounced : bon-ah-TAR), after a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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Mark of the Year (1960)

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Mark of the Year (1960)
Awarded to Elena Palumbo-Mosca

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Trends in Aussie Rules 

Towards Anthropometric Registration 

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Vale Tina Turner (1939-2023)

In August 1984, Linda Marrinon, Geoff Lowe and I were staying at The Royalton (44 West 44th Street) in New York. For Linda and I, it was our first overseas excursion. With Vivienne Shark LeWitt, we started our Grand Tour in Rome, exhibited at ‘ANZART’ in Edinburgh, then continued to London where Vivienne stayed on. Steven Bush joined us in NY (*his exhibition at Sutton Gallery has just opened) where we spent our days mostly visiting museums. (Experiencing 'Ghost Busters' in a New York cinema was fun, too. Very meta.) After a substantial renovation, MoMA had just re-opened with ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture’.  It included some Australians, a rare event even for white Anglo male non-indigenous: Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Tony Coleing, Mike Parr.

I had grown up admiring Tina Turner’s awesome 'River Deep, Mountain High' (1966), before my similar regard for Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. While in NY, one afternoon I heard on local radio that Tina Turner was about to start a new tour in the wake of her breakthrough return single ‘What’s love got to do with it?’. She would be at The Ritz (119 East 11th Street) that night.

So, beer and pizza in an East Village restaurant with another music survivor Screamin' Jay Hawkins busking us with his ‘I put a spell on you’ (1956), then off to join the queue at The Ritz. Hawkers stalked the queue trying to sell us their (real or fake?) inflated-price tickets. Eventually I bit and was one of the last to get inside before FULL HOUSE and a great performance.

Today, news that Tina has died aged 83. The final para of a New York Times review of that August 1984 Ritz concert season :
“Miss Turner doesn't mind mocking herself; after a hip-shaking, knee- swinging rendition of a rock song, she pauses for a deep, sweeping, bow, delivered with a diva's hauteur. Yet in her own way, Miss Turner has as much dignity as any performer now working. If there have to be sex symbols, Tina Turner is the best kind - wise, tough and adult.”

VALE TINA

Tina's Audience of Respect 

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Rural Australians for Refugees _ Daylesford

At 5pm Friday for the past four years, RARD has staged a 30 minute protest vigil in central Daylesford. Last Friday was the last. Toot! Toot!

To Assist Refugees    

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