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The history of Australia abounds in absurdity. Australians of whatever derivation have to find ways of celebrating senselessness. Yiwarra Kuju, the current exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, is a case in point. What language is Yiwarra Kuju? I’m afraid I can’t tell you, even though I invested $59 of my own money to [...]

Lehman Brothers the bank that became the biggest victim of the financial crisis is to see its art collection go under the hammer Nearly two years ago, Lehman Brothers became the biggest victim of the financial crisis when the Wall Street titan dramatically collapsed. Now, the administrators unpicking the mess that was left behind are [...]

Glyndebourne Designed by David Hockney and directed by John Cox, Glyndebourne’s production of The Rake’s Progress dates from 1975 and is still widely regarded as the benchmark staging of Stravinsky’s great, if difficult, opera. Time has inevitably coloured our responses to some of it. The brothel scene, with its regimented circles of whores and roaring [...]

Traverse, Edinburgh Most ballet is not very funny. But by using just the five basic positions of ballet, Martin Creed — better known for his art than his choreographic skills — offers a playful and engaging 70 minutes of repetitions where the limitations actually become the springboard of creativity. It’s a bit like watching a [...]

The Wall Street bank’s administrators PWC are ready to auction off its precious artworks at Christie’s Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

It is rocket science! We take a tour around a rocket facility in Los Angeles owned by Elon Musk, a man who wants to retire to Mars! See inside his factory and watch his rockets take off. In the newsjam we look at the UK’s cloned meat scare, a new study showing genetic links to [...]

How the fashion industry is turning to science to help reduce waste Andy Duckworth Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

The oil company might give generously to arts organisations, but Tate and other museums must live up to their ethical commitments. It’s time to ditch this tainted sponsor Jonathan Jones has some simple words of advice for national artistic institutions currently feeling the financial squeeze: “If they can get money from Satan himself, they should [...]

Altitude sensors, precision ‘chronometers’, cases inlaid with meteorite … luxury watches offer some of the most excessive design in existence. Welcome to Mach 2 modernism Travelators are wonderful things. They turn the longest, dullest airport concourses into meditations on human potential. There you are, merely strolling, yet effortlessly gliding past all the losers who opted [...]

A Dutch artist who enlists snails, smoke and water birds to make disorder look beautiful From Leonardo’s experiments with flight to Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy, art and science have a long history. In the hands of young Dutch artist Semâ Bekirovic, however, this double act seems an endlessly fascinating, human quirk. The 32-year-old Amsterdam-based artist tackles [...]