Celebrities are our sun gods and we don’t really need to see them brought down to our level by ill-advised forays into art. I, for one, accept my celebrity overlords but I’d prefer them to stay where they are.
It was blunt but to the point: is the art world full of posers? I had to think about that for a second…
When you come back with a new tube of Titanium White, are you thinking ‘Oh boy, let’s go!’ or ‘Oh Jesus, will I ever be free?’
In the modern fibre-optic world of today, every artist is busy professionalising their practice, building a personal brand across multiple media platforms while synergising their opportunities.
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.
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.
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.
It’s an oft-repeated truism that the art market is the largest unregulated money market in the world.
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.
“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.”
Andrew Frost wrote a letter to the museum director following his visit to a gallery’s most recent summer blockbuster exhibition.
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.
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