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We don’t know why we think drinking a lot of beer is a good idea. We don’t know why drinking wine on top of beer is smart and clever and we haven’t the foggiest why we always think we can
There is a Wall of Shame in this year’s photo competition, three tedious and overdone photographs hung side by side that are a microcosm of the hip and conceptually obvious school of Australian Art Photography. On the left is Polixeni
The Wynne Prize for landscape painting has always been the poor cousin of the three competitions. Artists like Aida Tomescu have been raising the tone over the last decade or so and it’s good to see she’s there again. Peter
The real show every year is The Sulman Prize for Genre Painting. Since no one is really certain what a “genre” painting is, it’s a total up-for-grabs fun fest that’s more about what’s happening in Australian art than anything else
How dare reality intrude on our fantasy world?!! We knew full well that trying to predict the winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture is virtually impossible, especially considering the fickle and perverse tastes and decisions of the Art Gallery
We wondered last week why media coverage of an artist’s entry into The Archibald Prize meant that there was then no chance of that artist winning. It’s The Curse of The Media. We also speculated that Evert Ploeg might not
God, how we love that racing analogy! Way, way back in the early 90s the whole Archibald-as-horse-race thing got started and every year the Herald gives odds on who are the favourites and who are the long shots. We predict
So we’re bohemian after all! Perusing the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald we discovered an item headlined Bohemian Rhapsody Puts Economy on song in which the following claims were made: Richard Florida rates cities on a “bohemian index” and
We have been having a lot of thoughts recently about the nature of obviousness. Is it good to be obvious? Is it bad to be obscure? Could we formulate a unified theory of “getability”? We weren’t sure and confused and
Crouching Tiger, Nutty Squirrel
Art Life Mar 23, 2004We promised ourselves when we started this blog that we weren’t going to get too self reflexive. We’d just talk about what was interesting to us and hope people would come along for the ride. So far, The Art Life