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…
Time out for a little blatant self-promotion.
**Disclaimer – the author may have a personal interest in promoting this program. Please take the following advice with a liberal dose of salt** Right, let’s…
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 