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<b>William Kentridge<b>, drawing for <b>Telegrams from the nose, 2008,<b> Indian ink, watercolour, coloured pencil, found pages and collage on paper, 25.2 x 23.5 cm, courtesy the artist.

With specially-commissioned cover artwork and artist pages by 2008 Biennale of Sydney artist, William Kentridge and Guest-Editorship by Biennale of Sydney Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the June issue of Art &Australia opens up new ways of seeing. Art &Austraila presents the Biennale''s theme - ''Revolutions: Forms that Turn'' - with monographic essays on exhibiting artists including: Jane Taylor on William Kentridge, Hannah Feldman on Michael Rakowitz, Sarah Tutton on Stuart Ringholt and Robert Leonard on Vernon Ah Kee.

Vol 45 No 4 Winter 2008

An interview with Ron Radford

"We need to get the message across that there are so many splendid works of art on display at the National Gallery in Canberra, including many new works, that every person, regardless of where they live in Australia, will feel impelled to visit their national...

An interview with Ai WeiWei

Based in Beijing, Ai Weiwei is one of China's most prominent artists. Born in 1957, he grew up in exile in the remote desert province of Xinjiang. His father, the renowned poet Ai Qing, was accused of anti-communist activities during the Cultural Revolution...

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Russell Storer

The 16th Biennale of Sydney proposes a greater focus on formal and aesthetic concerns than its more recent predecessors. Its drawing of connections between contemporary and historical works, and its motif of reversals and disruptions, are ideas that Artistic...

William Kentridge

"I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged - the same house, the same people - and then...

Michael Rakowitz

On 17 May 2003, two months after the United States led the 'coalition of the willing' into Iraq, the New York-based collective Artists Against the War staged a nationwide 'Erase In' to draw attention to the cultural implications of the invasion, if not also...

Vernon Ah Kee

"The art we make is Aboriginal art ... because the way we live our lives is an Aboriginal experience. Now what happens in the deserts and remote communities is that the people create art and they try to make their art in a way that correlates to ... [a]...

RIPE: Jamil Yamani

"I considered the asylum seekers who lived in those non-zones to be part of our community - that was the first border I broke down. They are not part of some other community, they are our community." Jamil Yamani On a phosphate rock in the Micronesian South...

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