Would you like a little culture with that?
Cue drum roll….. The day has dawned. Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, will unveil the Labor government’s National Cultural Policy at the National Press…
And the ballroom dancers went around… and around… and around again. A lesson in reading auction figures.
Hello, old friend. Nice to see you again. It’s good to know some things never change. As regular as clockwork… John Brack’s Backs and Fronts is back on…
A Warhol for Every Wall
In what can best be described as the modern art-world equivalent of a garage sale, Christie’s is currently running an online auction of work by Andy…
“Fair Crack of the Whip, Sport!”
Interesting opinion piece in The Age today by Australian artist Ben Quilty (link… here). In response to the recent raft of sporting-world scandals, he raises the question of why it…
The White stuff.
What makes us human? We do something like this just for the sake of it, and love it… just because. Last night, 300,000 Melburnians flooded into…
Hey now, hey now, my bunting’s back! You can take it to the bank(sy)
Alternatively, just take the Banksy. Either way, I think someone’s been taking some creative licence with the disappearing Banksy that has just reappeared on an auctioneer’s…
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…
Art matters 