We’re excited to announce that The Art Life will be returning to the screens of your ABC on Tuesday, November 13 at 10pm for a one-off year-in-review special A Year In The Art Life. We’ll be casting our collective eyes over the highs and lows of contemporary art in Australia and around the world, looking at art news, the market, scandals, fakes, thefts and assorted Biennales.
This is where you come in. We’re looking for nominations for highlights and lowlights of art in 2007 [which, for the purposes of “a year” will be November 2006 to November 2007]. Nominations can be for your favourite exhibitions, personalities, diamond encrusted skulls, portraits of Stephen Colbert rendered in Lego, in fact, anything that takes your fancy. You can email your nominations to us to the usual address, or in the comments below. All nominations will be treated as confidential.
In the meantime, let us draw your attention to the forthcoming series Not Quite Art, written and presented by Marcus Westbury, the fifth most influential person in the Melbourne art world. The first episode goes to air on October 16 and, as ABC publicity would have it, ” this special three-part series questions the legitimacy of various creative endeavours who wear the mantle of ‘Art’. Presenter Marcus Westbury investigates the worlds of gaming, design and street art to see if they’re not quite art. The series is produced by Frank Haines and directed by Brendan Fletcher.”
