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…
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…
Art matters 