Tag: art

  • DESIGN IS ONE : LELLA & MASSIMO VIGNELLI

    Even though I have spent most of my life in the design industry I was still totally unaware of the existence of husband and wife design duo Lella & Massimo Vignelli until I came across Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra’s new documentary.  Yet whilst like so many people I may not be familiar with their…

  • William Yang : My Generation

    William Yang : My Generation

    William Yang is something of a Queer Icon in Australia’s art world.  A third generation Chinese-Australian born in Brisbane in the 1940’s, who as soon as he was old enough he left the genteel quiet of Queensland to head to Sydney, the gay mecca of Australia. He not only developed a acute  eye and remarkable…

  • MUSEUM HOURS

    There is very little plot in this intriguing wee movie from writer/director Jem Cohen although it is billed as a drama. Essentially it is this. Anne, a middle-aged Canadian woman, rushes off to Vienna after she gets a call that a distant cousin of hers who has no other family is in a coma.  In…

  • Chris & Don : A Love Story

    When celebrated British Author Christopher Isherwood met a particularly young handsome man in his speedos on a  Santa Monica beach in the 1954, he was already 48 years old.  The boy, barely 18, and looking even younger, was Don Bachardy. And against all surmountable odds the mutual attraction between these two extremely different men, developed…

  • For You Naked

    Lars Ivar Lerin is reputed to be Sweden’s finest water-color artist whose work is much sort after.  He is also a recovering alcoholic and drug addicted gay man who is desperate to find a life partner some days.  Other days he is not sure about this, and most other things too. This rather charming documentary made…