Look! Animals!
Let’s all take a little time out for some visual quietude… Ah… That’s better. In a world gone mad, sometimes all we need to make us…
Rats! Another Melbourne Banksy stencil bites the dust.
Was there a council meeting somewhere to which I wasn’t invited at which it was decided that April should be designated ‘persecute Banksy’ day? If so,…
A final word on Sam Leach’s Wynne Prize-winning entry
Here’s a nice, big slice of schadenfreude pie for those of you who are distressed to the point of distraction about Sam Leach’s Wynne-ing streak (pardon…
Nothing new under the sun: lessons in appropriation 101
Ever since Marcel Duchamp signed a (thankfully, factory-fresh) urinal ‘R.Mutt’ and presented it at the 1917 Society of Independent Artists’ exhibition in New York (illustrated at…
Does Sam Leach’s Wynne prize entry suck? The art of appropriation.
Well, yet again we find ourselves in the midst of a full-blown Australian art prize pickle. Not since Bill Dobell caused a fracas with his Archibald…
Art matters 