Darryn Lyons, Private Time Book Launch at Lyons Gallery

Darryn Lyons, at the launch of Private Time - his new book cataloguing his impressive 20th Century popular and celebrity culture photography collection. With dedicated photography galleries rare in Sydney it's great to have Darryn setting up shop in Paddington with a lot of classic work on show and for sale. Well worth heading over for a visit.

https://thelyonsgallery.com/

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Modern Artefacts, Culture and Colonisation - at Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery

Honestly if you walk into this show and wonder what it's all about; it's time for you to give up looking at art. Me; I was relieved to be looking at a show where no explanation, no tags, no room sheet is required. All this metal, moulded from the iron taken from the ground, taken from a taken land; remodelled into facsimiles of aboriginal artefacts. But now with a hard, harsh edge. And yet still beautiful. This work is so layered, political, aesthetic, historical, craft, art, anthropological. The only time I've even seen anything like it was the first time I saw several of Lorraine Connelly-Northey's sculptural pieces at Measured Response, NAS Gallery last year; just as visceral then as last nights viewing. As the man used to say 'do yourself a favour' head on down to Roslyn Oxley9 and see this show, you can thank me later. Lorraine Connelly-Northey Narrbong-Galang on until the 16th of March. (Click images to view larger).

www.roslynoxley9.com.au/

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Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.

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Saturday Night at a Rooftop Bar in Singapore

You've been travelling for weeks, you are exhausted and arguing. It's a two day stopover and Saturday night in Singapore. Will you ever be in this city again; on a Saturday night, who really knows.. So what's to be done? Just for once I don't bother checking google maps or any of the guides. I want to go over to old Chinatown where exploring the city early one morning, I saw all these restaurants and bars packed in cheek to jowl. Quiet in the morning sure, but it looked fascinating and at night; now that's got to be be the place to be. We pull ourselves together, exit the Intercontinental from it's labyrinth of corridors and grab a cab over to old Chinatown. And the whole place is going off!

Ann Siang Hill and Club Street are packed with people; there are tables and chairs set out on the road, people are spilling from doorways, there's a pleasant vibe, a party atmosphere and no end of venues to explore. The place feels great. We end up deciding on a rooftop bar, old building no lift, six flights of stairs maybe more.. but we have been assured its worth the work. When we make it to the top we find a lovely terrace bar, couches, a view of the other bar across the way, beautiful coloured lights, new Singapore towering in the background. I'm outdoors in the humidity and loving it! It's like being out at a summer party in Brisbane back in college days, if only there had been bars like this - if only they had kept Brisbane's colonial heart.. I like this Singapore place, I like this bar, and we like the people; it turns into a great night out in Singapore after all, and truly one to remember.

We ended up at Screening Room Roof Top Bar - great location, friendly, our snacks were good though we did find the establishment a little pricey. No doubt on par with similar establishments with a view.

Special thanks to whitecaviarlife.com

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Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.

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kent@artcommunication.com.au

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