Andrew Cowen Photo Diary

April 4, 2019

Andrew Cowen Photo Diary 5–13 April 2019 11am–5pm Shapiro Gallery 162 Queen St Woollahra NSW http://andrewcowen.tumblr.com/

Let’s Be Frank

By John McPhee – March 28, 2019

Bookmarks

By John Murphy – March 16, 2019

Le Patin Libre

By Ruth Little – March 12, 2019

They live and work as they skate, travelling together throughout most of the year to places where access to the ice is cheap or free, where the boundaries of performance…

The Lot is a place for lost objects and found ideas; for things vanished in the before and after of the internet; for classical concepts of beauty and for twenty-first century ways of being. The Lot is so named because we inhabit the site of an auction house, but also because we are interested in everything. Not only in all subjects, but in all time, in decades, centuries—epochs, even. The task of good criticism, according to Samuel Johnson, is “to distinguish those means of pleasing which depend upon known causes and rational deduction, from the nameless and inexplicable elegances which appeal wholly to the fancy.” An Instagram image can be as riveting as an old master painting, and in sifting through the digital superflux of our era, we hope to present the images and ideas—“the nameless and inexplicable elegances”—that sound the truth of our time.