Your Nutrition and Hydration on the Perth Gallery Scene.
I loved the outright insouciance of the catering at Friday night’s opening at Turner Galleries in Northbridge. Serving a clean-skin red at a commercial gallery opening was a nice, simple statement that the free piss wasn’t to be the servant of some corporate wine giant. Just send the admin assistant down to Dan Murphys and get a palette of something just the right side of vinegar, packaged in something just the right side of cardboard. And frankly the sneering, jaded, burnt out palates of artists, critics, and assorted parasites would barely notice the difference anyway would they? (Can a palate sneer? I think it can.) And, free piss is after all free piss.
And, delightfully, the Soft Red ($3.95 Dan Murphys) was actually fine. Quite drinkable! Well chosen Turners admin worker. Kudos.
As for the food, nothing hot of course. But you don’t see many mini quiche level gallery openings in Perth any more, but that’s fine. However it’s an open secret that I’ve never been a fan of water crackers at gallery openings. Turners have in the past been a bastion of Jatz (pepper), and I would advise a return to that staple. Water crackers, despite their strength for dipping, (I believe there was chick pea, or was it lentil?) just get stuck in your teeth too much. A highlight was a monster block of blue cheese that was almost big enough to be an installation in itself. Almost a shame to have cut into it. Christo would have been happy to wrap it.
All in all I gave it a solid 3.5 stars.
The Worst of Perth 
Welcome back. Blue cheese installation FTW.
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So many views every month. The public pressure…
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omg! you’re back!!
about time… With spring/summer on our door step I was almost feeling chipper.
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Oh those great days when we served something like chateau de SHAT with toast and vegemite.
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And a block of cheese we dare not mention its name…
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Your photos need to be clickable to expand. Is that cream cheese and sweet chilli at the back???
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I think it was guacamole at the back. Not sure because I don’t like avocado. A Brie wheel. And the other was either lentil or chickpea. I think chickpea.
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Actually it could have been a sour cream and chive. I’ll get back to you.
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Crumbly old Ritz better than Jatz???? Are you high on Soft Red?
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Was that wine and cheese part of a new direction in modern sculpture though? I mean, isn’t art something that provokes a reaction? “Soft and Red”, 2019 – Dan Murphys cleanskins, Woolworths Deli cheese, serving bowls from the office kitchen.
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Appreciate the link but at $3.20 I will not be purchasing Jatz online.
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But a Soft Red for $3.95 must be tempting?
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Christo was a fucking genius
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50 year anniversary of wrapping the bay in Australia. Wonderful.
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Yay!
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I assume you are spared the Jatz/Ritz cracker debate there.
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Inasmuch as they seem to be the same thing, yes.
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Noooooooo.
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Went through Lexington, NY, this weekend and thought of you. It looks exactly the same, minus the snow. For now.
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Actually, I spoke too soon – just revisited the original post and LOT of paint has fallen off those buildings in the interim…
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