Gribbly's day out

"Jeffrey Smart 1921-2013: Recondita Armonia - Strange Harmonies Of Contrast" @ USyd Art Gallery

If you enjoy Smart's slightly unreal urban scenes, in which the industrial is rendered postcard pretty, then you'll enjoy this. Don't worry, there's only a small overlap with USyd's JS exhibition of a couple of years ago. Among the supplemental documents are examples of correspondence between the late painter and the curator of this retrospective, writer David Malouf.


"Blackfish" @ Dendy Newtown

Killer whales are intelligent, they suffer terribly in captivity, and marine parks tend to be run by unscrupulous corporations who exploit animal and employee alike - these things are not surprising. What is surprising - nay, profoundly shocking - is the extent to which all three are true. The following preview only hints at the looooong list of revelations in this documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHMpcXvIyLw