Walk a mile

In his most recent column for the Listener, Hamish Keith goes from Crocs

to Bill Hammond

to Shane Cotton

to the Venice Biennale.

Sadly, no mention of Hany Armanious, surely the go-to guy for art/Crocs metaphors.

Images, from top:
Crocs Beach in Seafoam, from usoutdoor.com
Bill Hammond, Bait Station, from the Brooke Gifford website
Shane Cotton, Delta, 2007, from the Brooke Gifford website
Venice Biennale logo, Venice Biennale website
Hany Armanious, Year of the Pig Sty, 2007, from the Foxy Productions website

Noted

Has anyone else noticed that the art reviews have disappeared from the Listener? Never fear - as announced in this week's edition, proud curmudgeon Hamish Keith is about to commence a fortnightly art column for the magazine.

Also noted

Sarah Jessica Parker's production company (Pretty Matches) has teamed with the creators of Project Runway (Magical Elves) and is shopping an art world version of Project Runaway around the networks. Will SJP take Heidi's role? Who will play Tim Gunn? And what is with the names of those companies?

And just now noted

Gordon McLauchlan's motion(via Beatties' Book Blog), at the monthly meeting of the Auckland branch of Pen (the NZ Society of Authors), to lobby government to relocate some of the national cultural institutions - namely Creative NZ - to Auckland. Seconded by said Hamish Keith.