Tim Stone 10/19/21 Tim Stone 10/19/21

Volatile afterimages: the videotaped beating of Rodney King

In 1991 George Holliday told reporters he bought a home video camera to record "home stuff", "a cat licking its paw". Holliday's life changed forever when he hit record on police arresting a man outside his apartment. Up until his death on Sunday September 22, 2021, Holliday's life was linked to that single piece of footage.

Licensing Holliday's footage as part of ACMI's #storyofthemovingimage we came to a greater understanding of the indelible afterimage his footage left on him and the late 20th Century.

Tim Stone 9/15/21 Tim Stone 9/15/21

Digital stasis: the September 11 footage orphaned to YouTube

Footage inextricably linked with our collective memories of the September 11 terrorist attacks is noticeably absent from commemorative news coverage. This is the story of attempting to license some of the most visceral amateur footage captured on that day.

Tim Stone 3/4/19 Tim Stone 3/4/19

A$10M Buxton Contemporary opens in Melbourne’s Southbank arts precinct

Dedicated solely to Australian contemporary art produced after 1980, Buxton Contemporary will house the $10 million Michael Buxton Collection (MBC) of over 300 works produced by 58 artists amassed by Melbourne property developer Michael Buxton over the last two decades.

Tim Stone 10/4/16 Tim Stone 10/4/16

Graffiti: Art of the tag

Tagging, the act of writing your graffiti name with spray paint or markers, is one of the most maligned, misunderstood and prosecuted forms of self expression.

From its early beginnings in struggling New York City neighbourhoods to suburban Australian alleyways, artists and some members of the public remain divided over the artistic value of graffiti.

Tim Stone 12/10/15 Tim Stone 12/10/15

Howard Arkley's lust for suburban life

Howard Arkley (and friends...) at Tarrawarra Museum of Art was a retrospective of one of the most important Australian painters of the 20th Century, and the first major exhibition of Arkley's work since the exhibition Howard Arkley at Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia in 2006.

Tim Stone 3/14/14 Tim Stone 3/14/14

2014 Adelaide Fringe - A Simple Space by Gravity and Other Myths

It all begins with an idea.

Tim Stone 8/7/13 Tim Stone 8/7/13

Philip Brophy: art, sex and psychosis

Tim Stone 6/28/13 Tim Stone 6/28/13

MONA’s The Red Queen: Art as an evolutionary advantage

Tim Stone 5/17/13 Tim Stone 5/17/13

A New American Picture: Doug Rickard's Google Street View road-trip

It all begins with an idea.

Tim Stone 5/3/13 Tim Stone 5/3/13

Antony Hamilton's black series defies context

The pursuit of the impossible is the idea behind Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer Antony Hamilton's ground-breaking dance series, the black series.

Tim Stone 8/1/12 Tim Stone 8/1/12

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s surrealist education and the making of modern photojournalism

Tim Stone 7/16/12 Tim Stone 7/16/12

In Focus: The first photo shoot and the invention of fashion photography

In the early 20th century the magazine industry embraced fashion photography as a tool for selling an enviable lifestyle, and with it clothes and accessories. The combination of photographers inspired by the avant-garde or informed by world events with a strong commercial imperative helped create a unique visual language that still exists today.

Tim Stone 7/10/12 Tim Stone 7/10/12

Life, death and decay in Berlinde De Bruyckere's 'We are all Flesh'

Berlinde Bruyckere makes sculptures that look like humans and animals suspended between life and death. The figures are often mutated, sometimes emaciated and on the verge of decomposition. People have described her work as brutal and challenging, yet some see it as comforting and poetic.