Opinion
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
“We must fight, and we must resist, and we will win again as we have done before.”
Opinion
Art in the Quiet City
As the closure of cities pushes art online, have we really learnt anything new?
Timmah Ball
Opinion
Burnt Out Culture
Sophia Cai discusses the hidden costs of doing what you love.
Sophia Cai
Opinion
Hitting the class ceiling
Neha Kale unpacks the art world’s complicated relationship with money and power.
Neha Kale
Opinion
On Loving Bad Artists
Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
Sophia Cai
Opinion
No Prices, Just Red Dots
If you’ve been around the art world for awhile, it’s easy to forget that a lot of people can still find the whole thing intimidating.
Andrew Frost
Opinion
I Forced a Bot to Read Over 1000 Online Art Reviews and Then Asked It to Write One of Its Own… This Is What It Came up With
Let me begin with an anecdote to open this review, which is only marginally relevant to what is to follow. You’ll like this because when I finally come back to the subject you’ll go, ‘…oooh, clever!’
Andrew Frost
Opinion
Arts Writing in the Meme Age (and Other Complications)
Writing about the act of writing – or more specifically, to write about the field of what we commonly call ‘arts writing’ and to ponder what this might mean – is perhaps setting a thorny task for myself here.
Sophia Cai
Opinion
Professional Art Therapist Part 2: Curators*
Frankly, living artists are a bore. I prefer dead artists.
Andrew Frost
Opinion
When Too Much Art Is Too Much
God this is tedious, my wife observed, and I had to agree – what is with Australia’s obsession with art? Everywhere you look in the media it’s art, art, art.
Andrew Frost
Opinion
I, For One, Welcome Our Celebrity Overlords
“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.”
Andrew Frost
Opinion
Is the Art World Full of Posers?
“It was blunt but to the point: is the art world full of posers? I had to think about that for a second…”