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By: Isabel Dunstan and Sophie Gaston
Date: 14th Mar 08
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
What:
un Magazine
Where:
Institue of Modern Art, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
When:
Magazine out now
How much:
Magazine free
It seems it's a real challenge to write about art without getting high on your own cultural superiority. But the writers of un Magazine have always avoided this, with their smart but accessible commentary on Melbourne’s art scene. It doesn't matter if your artistic education hasn't progressed much since Art Attack, because un has turned art writing on its head.
The dudes behind this magazine launched in Melbourne with the sights and sounds of Tap Queen, Van Newton and Bullshit Rare and the presence of artists, Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell and Helen Johnson. But this magazine is good enough, we’ll forgive them for having a party so far south. We don’t even mind having our own launch by, say, wearing a homemade party hat and foraging through the pixelated goodness of the magazine online.