When too many cooks don’t necessarily spoil the broth…
Quick post today with a link to a great article by a board member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dr Luther Brady, in which he…
Are the days of the artrepreneur numbered?
Interesting question arrived in my inbox today via Michael Mocksim. “You think the Frank Dunphy style era is over?” Frank Dunphy, of course, was Damien Hirst’s…
When is a fake not a fake?
Sounds like a philosophical conundrum along the lines of “when a tree falls in a distant forest etc”, doesn’t it? But the answer is quite straight-forward.…
Portrait of Dorian Gray?
Oh dear. No doubt about it. Portrait painting is an utterly thankless task. William Dobell found this out the hard way when his controversial painting of…
What a pisser! Lazy post. Sorry.
More to come on more things. Soon. I promise. In the meantime, here’s a link to an article I wrote for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Expertise Goes…
… And the fug of irony hung thick in the air.
No rest for the wicked. The last few days have passed in a veritable whirr as I tried to weave whatever magic I still have…
Top Five Apocalyptic Visions. PS: It was nice knowing you.
Dear Powers-That-Be, It’s all very well to be told that the world is going to end tomorrow. But when planning for the Apocalypse, it would be…
Ai Ai Ai. Oh, Elton.
Sometimes it feels like the entire world has slipped down Alice’s rabbit hole. How is it that the Chinese authorities have no problem admitting an openly…
Istanbul, James Bond, Indiana Jones… the Secret Life of Me. Don’t laugh.
Nothing to do with art… In the most recent edition of Gourmet Traveller, there’s a feature article penned by yours truly about Istanbul. Don’t ask. Just…
S[edition]. The verdict? Count me amongst the s[educed].
What do you get the artist who has everything? A website upon which he (Damien Hirst), she (Tracey Emin) or they (the Chapman Brothers) can blaze…
Art matters 