Adult Contemporary

20/07/2023

William Wegman, ‘Reading Two Books’, 1971. Silver gelatin print, 11 × 10 in.

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Ahead of the un Magazine 17:1 RESIST launch at sweet pea on Saturday afternoon, we’ll be setting up shop in the internal courtyard at 50 Pier Street Boorloo/Perth from 12:00 to 3:00 PM. Please come by, say hello, and have a browse.

Pre-ordered copies of Amina Cain’s ‘Indelicacy’ and Annie Ernaux’s ‘Simple Passion’—for ACRG (August) and (September), respectively—will be available for collection, with limited quantities of each still available for purchase.

We also have new titles in stock from Common Room Editions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Onomatopee, and Primary Information.

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The internal courtyard can be accessed from the rear car park via the laneway running from Dada Records on Pier Street to OMG Coffee & Toastie on Murray Street.

Please note that the rear car park is for tenants only. Free 3-hour weekend parking is available nearby in the CPP Pier Street car park.

Regrettably, accessibility to the (1899) building is limited for wheelchair users and others who need step-free access due to the presence of steps at both entrances.

08/07/2023

‎Show The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker, Ep Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado” - 3 July 2023

28/06/2023

‎Show Digging with Flo, Ep Digging with Flo & Mark Leckey - 27 June 2023

16/05/2023

‎Show New Models (public), Ep Unlocked | 4-EVER-DIS w/ Lauren Boyle (NM59) - 26 Mar 2023

06/05/2023

‎Show The New Yorker: Fiction, Ep Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan - 7 Mar 2023

02/05/2023

In a wide-ranging oral history, members of the space recall its astonishing – and sometimes contentious – three years

01/03/2023

Former members of artist duos and groups discuss how and why art collectives form, and eventually come to pass

25/02/2023

Interiority in a world of screens

27/01/2023

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In: heaven, pastures, Anya Taylor Joy. This month, Cara Schacter considers big data’s gossamer sartorial predictions for the year ahead, hairstyling tips for a Belarusian Essence, and why Katherine Heigl’s stylist might want to explore aura-soul harmony.

05/01/2023

NEW YORK STATE legalized recreational ma*****na on March 31, 2021. Soon after, taco-truck-style w**d vendors began turning up on street corners around Manhattan. Soon after that, brick-and-mortar dispensaries began popping up all over the city. Some brazenly branded themselves with spiky green seven...

29/12/2022

From the increasingly limp shenanigans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a nonsensical rewriting of Avatar, the era of franchise cinema is running on fumes

12/12/2022

08/12/2022

Please come visit us at and ’s upcoming markets this weekend and next. We'll be selling art publications, stationery, incense, and homewares amongst other things. 💖

East End Arts Precinct’s Festive Marketplace
Corner of Hay Street & Barrack Street Boorloo/Perth
🎀 FRI 9 DEC, 3:00 – 7:00 PM
🎀 SAT 10 DEC, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Local & Aesthetic’s Xmas Markets
769 Beaufort Street Mount Lawley
🎀 SUN 18 DEC, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Selling: AA Publications, ACME Studio, Actar Publishers, Afterall Books, Badlands Unlimited, Bedford Press, Corraini Edizioni, De Appel, Discipline, Dominica Publishing, Do.Pe Press, Edition Patrick Frey, Fireflies Press, F.R.DAVID, Ignota, Incausa, Liquid Architecture, Little Joe, MAY Editions, MIT Press, mono.kultur, Montana, Mousse Publishing, Occasional Papers, Onomatopee, Paraguay Press, Penguin, PIN UP Magazine, Primary Information, Printed Matter, Inc., Real Review, Semiotext(e), Spector Books, Sternberg Press, Surpllus, Upswell, Valiz, Verso Books, Vintage, Walther König, and more!

06/12/2022

Jessyca Hutchens on the artist and film-maker Curtis Taylor’s solo exhibition ‘Ruu - Examination’, currently on show at sweet pea (19 November 2022 – 14 January 2023):

‘Ruu is the Martu word for examination, mainly coming from the old Manyjilyjarra language’, explains Curtis Taylor. It means ‘to have a look, reveal something, or to sort of look at miscellaneous things’. It’s the day before the opening and Taylor has just unwrapped a large painting, Man o...

06/12/2022

Alexi Worth on the career and ‘disappearance’ of curator grifter Christian Leigh for Artforum’s March 2003 issue:

For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CHRISTIAN LEIGH was one of the most visible—and ambitious—independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished. ALEXI WORTH looks back on an enigmatic impresario of many guises whose disappearance remains as mysterious as Leigh himself.PRODI...

06/12/2022

Christian Leigh on artist Ashley Bickerton (1959–2022) for Artforum’s Summer 1988 issue:

I just wanna get radical! —Matt Archbold, professional surfer, 1987I want my future work to operate in the interchange between Robert Smithson’s unfinished project and Michael Jackson’s face. —Ashley Bickerton, 1988IN FRANCE THEY CALL them enfants terribles. In Italy you might hear duri. Her...

20/11/2022

‎Show AQNB's Artist Statement podcast, Ep (Unlocked!) Episode 14: Mutual Fictions with Elvia Wilk - 10 Mar 2021

18/11/2022

Elvia Wilk, author of Adult Contemporary Reading Group’s November text ‘Oval’, on the aesthetics and politics of the movement for e-flux:

More Less Category Technology Aesthetics Subject Science Fiction Dystopia Energy Futurism Author Elvia Wilk Return to Positions Share Email Facebook Twitter Copy Link Link Copied! Related See more related e - flux Architecture Share Email Facebook Twitter Copy Link Link Copied! Subscribe Is Ornament...

03/06/2022

In the name of personal branding, influencers might be paying someone to make them look like readers. But does a novel deserve more respect than a handbag?

09/03/2022

In this episode of Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists, artist Vincent Fecteau and novelist and erstwhile fashion journalist Derek McCormack conduct a show-and-tell of sorts, looking through some of the art, jewelry, and other doodads they’ve created and shared with each other over the years.A...

21/02/2022

‎Show Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast, Ep Amalia Ulman and Maggie Lee - 15 Feb 2022

26/12/2021

7 track album

27/10/2021

GIDDY FROM SIPPING FLUTES of the de Young Museum’s prosecco, my friend Karen and I quickly realized that from the VIP section, the view of Judy Chicago’s smoke sculpture, Forever de Young, was going to suck. Since we were standing to the side of the huge pyramid-shaped scaffolding that was holdi...

22/10/2021

Later on, I found a photo in the Los Angeles Police Department’s archives that was taken in John Belushi’s hotel room at the Chateau Marmont. It isn’t a particularly interesting image, except for the doubled phones on the desk.

16/10/2021

Day 250 has passed. Once “the world’s most liveable city”, we now reluctantly embrace the new tagline of “the world’s most locked-down city”. Still, t…

11/09/2021

RIP Billy Apple (1935–2021) 🍏

New Zealand Pop artist Billy Apple, who cast himself as a brand decades before the commercial practice gained widespread prominence thanks to the use of social media, died September 6 at the age of eighty-six. Apple, whom Anthony Byrt in 2011 characterized in Artforum as having “arguably done more...

28/06/2021

‎Show The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker, Ep Camille Bordas Reads “Offside Constantly” - Jun 22, 2021

16/06/2021

Primary Information and Franklin Furnace Archive are pleased to announce the digital publication of all sixteen issues of The Flue as free pdfs on our website.
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The Flue was a periodical published between 1980 and 1989 by the venerable institution Franklin Furnace Archive, which was founded in 1976 by the artist Martha Wilson to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize, and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. ⁠
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The periodical took on a multitude of media forms and functions, from organizational newsletters to exhibition supplements and catalogs, to scholarly surveys of contemporary and historical artists’ book movements. This shapeshifting approach was supplemented by a changing cast of editors and designers that included Barbara Kruger, Richard McGuire, Linda Montano, and Buzz Spector.⁠
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The Flue also featured artist projects and writings by Anna Banana, Dawoud Bey, Ulises Carrión, Paula Court, Agnes Denes, Peter Frank, Ken Friedman, Gilbert & George, David Hammons, Ray Johnson, Leon Golub, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Anna Mendieta, Richard Nonas, Nam June Paik, and Nancy Spero, among many others. Thematic issues included Multiples by Latin American Artists; The Page as an Alternative Space; Cubist Prints / Cubist Books; S*x, Performance, and the 80s; and Mail Art: Then and Now, all of which are supplemented with scholarly texts, checklists, and exhibition documentation.⁠
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No less ambitious are the artist resources, performance and exhibition documentation, book reviews, and event calendars that provide a keen snapshot of New York in the 1980s, a decade that the Franklin Furnace Archive helped shaped and nurture.⁠
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15/06/2021

Suzanne Husky: “On the proliferation of mermaids in times of shipwreck” | Introduced by Patricia MacCormack | 14–27 June 2021 | Vdrome is an online platform that offers regular, high quality screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers, whose production lies in-betw...

12/06/2021

un Projects is now calling for proposals for un Magazine issue 15.2, edited by Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange) to be published October/November 2021.‘As we re-emerge from a period of isolation, we are confronted by ongoing and intensifying crises that pose a threat to a coll...

12/06/2021

‎Show The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker, Ep Bryan Washington Reads “Foster” - Jun 8, 2021

04/06/2021

David Hammons, ‘Pissed Off’, 1981. Performance views, Richard Serra’s ‘T.W.U.’, 1980, Franklin Street and West Broadway, New York, 1981. Photo: Dawoud Bey.

04/06/2021

This year’s TarraWarra Biennial, one of just a small handful of national surveys of contemporary Australian art, takes its title from the Woiwurrung word tarrawarra, meaning “slow moving waters.” The biennial’s curator, Nina Miall, consulted with senior Wurundjeri elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wand...

27/05/2021

A Japanese bookstore simulator is collaboratively translated into English after 24 years.

27/05/2021

JCG Curator First Nations Art Michelle Broun discuss Aboriginal oral traditions and the passing down of histories.

31/01/2021

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21/10/2020

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Martine Syms and friends cruise around Los Angeles while talking cars, driving, routing, parking, and road tunes.

17/10/2020

A-side of the the Blue Gas 7" single, entitled Shadows From Nowhere (1984), originally released in France by Night Records .

06/10/2020

Escape From New York - Fire In My Heart (Orig. 7" edit) 1984 Backing Vocals – Jaki Graham Bass – John Falleti Drums – Mike Whitford Guitar, Keyboards – Tim C...

23/09/2020

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FOR FIVE DECADES, Beverly Glenn-Copeland quietly transcribed the melodies that floated to him, as he tells it, as if from a distant radio tower. A classically trained singer born to two musicians in Philadelphia, he released his first pair of albums—Beverly Copeland (1970) and Beverly Glenn-Copela...