SILVER was the metal on most minds at the unveiling of “Art Monthly Australia’s” 250th edition at Electric Shadows Bookshop yesterday, when readers, former editors, staffers, writers and members of the public gathered to celebrate.
For the cover of the edition was metallic silver, and the magazine was also 25 years old.
Merryn Gates, art adviser to the Parliament House Art Collection, who was doing the honours, went a step further, suggesting that the incredibly rough and flexible and silver-coloured metal Iridium (Ir) was more suitable for a 250th celebration of such a durable magazine.
Retiring Greens Senator Bob Brown was on hand to introduce a selection of his own photos, on display and for sale at the Bookshop.
He explained the background to several photographs, including one of his father, Jack, and urged those present to think of art as a force that would play its part in saving our natural environment.
Senator Brown said that the spare moments in which he had had time over the years to read “Art Monthly” had brought him “a restive joy”.
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