Opinion
This Is Tomorrow
By the time I was in my teens in the mid-70s, the optimism of the 1960s had faded into the dystopian grime of the late Cold War.
Opinion
Happy Little Trees
I had never heard of Bob Ross when I first encountered his smiling face looking out from the ranks of recommended TV shows, but I am sure my reaction to him was typical of the reason his show is now so popular.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
Regional Art Galleries: Giant Sheep, Contemporary Art
Not every country town or city thought to build a permanent local gallery, or if they had, many didn’t survive to the present day. To travel around to experience Australia’s wealth of regional galleries is to be presented with the architecture of make-do.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
All’s Fair
It’s an oft-repeated truism that the art market is the largest unregulated money market in the world.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
More Grand Designs
Whenever I think of artists working with architecture as a subject, or even artists doing some kind of collaboration with architects, I imagine it’s a very high-toned a air: you know, classy.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
PAY ME
“I have always believed that everyone has the right to be paid fairly, and on time, and on principle I understand and support artists who just say no.”
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
I Thoroughly Enjoyed Your Summer Blockbuster Exhibition
Andrew Frost wrote a letter to the museum director following his visit to a gallery’s most recent summer blockbuster exhibition.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
Rebuild the System: An Alternative Art School Model
You might have heard recently about what’s going down in Sydney’s three major art schools. One has pretty much abandoned traditional art education like painting and sculpture for an offbeat hybrid art/technology thing that costs heaps to produce but has beautiful ’research output’ value.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
People of Perth! Andrew Frost travels west to the future of art
A couple of issues back I wrote about what the future of the commercial art gallery scene might look like, reasoning that whatever may come, the dealer-led model of a physical, bricks-and-mortar commercial gallery seems like the only rational way to do business.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
Professional Art Therapist*
The welcoming atmosphere of the room is enhanced by carefully chosen chamomile-lavender scented candles. I’ll sit in a chair while you can sit on the couch, and so we can begin our art therapy session.
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
Man Proposes, God Disposes
You have to wonder: How did we get here? How did we end up with art as a ‘critical practice’ that is neither really that critical nor particularly good art?
By Andrew Frost
Opinion
Magical Thinking
Art itself, I have realised, is a kind of magical thinking, a kind of reasoning defined as the “identification of causal relationships between actions and events where scientific consensus says that there are none”.