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DAILY NEWS, VIEWS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS
CRITICS' PICKS, OPENINGS, YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR BLOGS
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CHRIS MOORE ON THE CHINA PROJECT, GOMA, BRISBANE
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A lavish banquet of contemporary Chinese art, including a survey of the last 30 years of Chinese art and retrospectives of Zhang Xiaogang and Australian-Chinese artist, William Yang, is currently on show at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the sister gallery of the Queensland Art Gallery, famous for its Asia Pacific Triennial which has an astoundingly good record of picking future world stars - Cai Guo Qiang, Zhang Xiao Gang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing were all picked up by the APT relatively early their respective careers.
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SIMRYN GILL AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY
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The Sydney-based Malaysian artist Simryn Gill conveys a deep interest in material culture and the ways that meaning can transform and translate in different contexts. This exhibition includes recent photographic works such as 'May 2006', a series of more than 800 images Gill took over a month of walks around her Sydney neighbourhood, and 'Run', which records her visit to the Indonesian island of Pulau Run, once a centre of the spice trade. 
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PIERRE HUYGUE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
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In the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, a forest of trees has strangely grown. The forest is on the stage, in the stalls, in the circles. From midday on July 9th to midday on July 10th, visitors can step into Pierre Huyghe's visionary image and be part of a living art work. Titled 'A Forest of Lines', this special event is a cornerstone of the 16th Biennale of Sydney and one of over 50 new works presented in 2008. Entry is free of charge, and access will be in sessions subject to availability and capacity. 
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PETRINA HICKS AT STILLS GALLERY, SYDNEY
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Petrina Hicks' immaculate large-scale portraiture represents something more than individual likeness. Beneath the highly polished and controlled surface of her images lies an eerie, unsettling psychological distance. Hicks' works probe those dualities that are at the heart of contemporary photography - traversing the fine lines between closeness and distance, between perfection and imperfection and between truth and falseness. 
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THE 16TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
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The 16th Biennale of Sydney opened last night, celebrating 35 years of showcasing contemporary art with an exhibition entitled 'Revolutions - Forms That Turn'. Over 180 artists are participating in the Biennale, with over 50 new projects, and Sydney's leading museums - the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as Artspace and spectacular outdoor sites such as the old industrial Pier 2/3, the Royal Botanical Gardens and Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour - hosting exhibitions and events. 
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JAMES BRYAN AT STILLS GALLERY, SYDNEY
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Emerging artist James Bryans presents a series of small-scale black and white prints that evoke a sense of pathos in their quiet, contained compositions. Bryans refers to 'Figments' as a collection of travel photographs, yet the word figment points to the imagination that pervades the works. These are not merely documents of scenic spots - Bryans employs the documentary charge of black and white photography but turns it on its head, with images that capture his wry and poetic take on the world. 
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SHAHZIA SIKANDER AT MCA SYDNEY
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Born in Pakistan, Shahzia Sikander studied painting in the Indo-Persian miniaturist tradition before relocating to New York in 1993 where during further studies she developed a distinctive visual language referencing history, mythology and popular culture. 
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VIDEO: GREGOR SCHNEIDER, BONDI BEACH
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This September, a new large-scale work by Gregor Schneider was installed on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Up today on the magazine is a video of the work which consisted of 21 cells that visitors could wander freely into, each cell providing all the comforts necessary to help you enjoy a day at the beach.
Read more and play video 
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GREGOR SCHNEIDER: BONDI BEACH - A NEW COMMISSION BY KALDOR ART PROJECTS
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This September, a new large-scale interactive artwork by Gregor Schneider will be installed on Bondi Beach in Sydney. The work will consist of 21 cells which visitors can wander freely into, each cell providing all the comforts necessary to help you enjoy a day at the beach. But the 4 x 4 cells will also divide groups of people enjoying the beach, exposing the individual as atomised, alienated and confined, their private space on view to all those around them. All that is associated with Australia's leisurely beach culture - surf, sand, sun and freedom - will be provocatively juxtaposed with Schneider's enclosed, cubed cells, provoking thoughts about current issues surrounding freedom.
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NATASCHA STELLMACH'S 'THE BOOK OF BACK' AT ICP, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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'The book of back', Natascha Stellmach's multimedia, suggestively theatrical installation and book project, poetically chronicles the universal experience of displacement and its influence on identity through an observation of the German diaspora's journey into Australia.
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NICHOLAS FORREST ON SAM JINKS, BOUTWELL DRAPER GALLERY, REDFERN
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Before turning his talents to making his own art, Sam Jinks worked as a commercial sculptor for film and television creating all manner of creatures. These skills led to several years collaborating with internationally renowned Australian artist Patrica Piccinini on the figures that appear in her artwork. Now Jinks has his own solo show featuring ultra realistic sculptures including 'The Hanging Man' (below). 
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BRENDAN LEE AT ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
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Created in the Australian prison film genre, Lee's '...two birds with one stone' takes his inspiration from movies such as Prisoner, Scum, Stir, Ghost...of the Civil Dead and Chopper, but in his work the artist asks his audience to consider the language of film, why we are no longer shocked by violence and how easily we can be seduced by imagery.
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