Here comes the sun… doo doo doo doo…
For those of you who have asked how to channel your inner sun-god/dess, the iPhone/iPod/iSanitaryPad application you need to download to drive Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Solar Equation,…
Sun spots before my eyes: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Fed Square
OK. Just back from the launch of aforementioned Rafael Lozano-Hemmer installation, Solar Equation for Fed Square’s Light in Winter Festival. Hot off the presses, an extremely…
Haunch of Venison Sautéed and Stuffed? Founding Directors of Christie’s Commercial Gallery Venture Head for Greener Pastures.
Much to the annoyance of contemporary art dealers everywhere, in 2007 auction leviathan Christie’s acquired the suitably obscurely-named London gallery, Haunch of Venison (in answer to…
Up there! In the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s… what, exactly?
Let me set the scene. Early morning. Patently crisp, fragrant, autumnal Melbourne air. Jostling, shoulder-to-shoulder with my fellow commuters, I emerge, blinking mole-like from the bowels…
Bonfire of the Vanities: Blackman and Dickerson artworks determined to be fake and ordered destroyed
A small but portentous victory for artists and art buyers alike today, with the ruling of Justice Peter Vickery that three works of art by Charles…
The great art laundromat?
If you have ever stopped to wonder why it is that such extraordinary sums of money pass through the fine art market, consider this: what other…
All art buyers are equal, but at auction, are some buyers more equal than others?
The laws that govern buying and selling in a competition-based forum are based on the premise that all buyers are competing on a level playing-field. According…
Is it right to copy? Visual artists and copyright.
I’m not going to go over the well-trodden ground that is the appropriation debate, covered here and here. But I am going to throw this one into…
Art investment made easy, or, parking your loot in Picasso
Picasso made some pretty extraordinary works of art. Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur, 1932, pictured at left, is not one of them. But, proving the old maxim…
Art as spectator sport? Should we be asking artists to give 110% and go the whole nine yards?
“I look forward to the time when honours can be bestowed simply for the meaning of a man’s work – without enticing paintings into the competitive…
Art matters 