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Artist performer Steve Walsh got himself into a world of hurt when he took a photo of a microwave oven at this local servo. Carrie Miller reports.
The Art Life’s senior social affairs editor Carrie Miller discovers that there is one last frontier to be exploited by artists seeking sensational content for their art – and it isn’t pretty.
Regardless of where you stood on the issue of Sam Leach’s winning entry in this year’s Wynne Prize, it appears the controversy has sparked some in the art world into action on the issue of copying in art. The premier example of this is the Australia Council’s recent announcement that they will be drawing up formal guidelines in relation to the matter.
From Julie Kearney… In Brisbane’s new GOMA – which currently hosts the Sixth Asia-Pacific Triennial – a room has been set aside for a bubble-encrusted stuffed elk whose fur can be seen expanding and multiplying behind the distorting glass baubles.
From Carrie Miller I know what you’re wondering. What’s that smell? Well, it’s the decomposing corpse of video art in the stockrooms of prestigious contemporary art galleries around the world. Twenty years ago none of us could have predicted the
Professor Joanna Mendelssohn was among those first contacted by members of the media in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Nick Waterlow and his daughter Chloe Heuston. In this article on the ethics of news reporting – originally commissioned
Todd McMillan, swim 4 (from the series ague), 2009 C type photograph, 131.67 x 87.78cm Courtesy GrantPirrie. A new exhibition by young artist Todd McMillan opens at GrantPirrie next week. The show is notable for a very special reason –
It has been fun in recent years to make the occasional gentle dig at Edmund Capon, the director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of NSW. Capon is a consummate professional and an astute media player. He happily appears
1st of August 2008 Re: The Australia Council Dear Prime Minister Rudd Recently my work was invited to participate in the Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art in China. This is an important invitation coming from curators with
It’s a week since the Bill Henson controversy kicked off. With no real developments and with the police yet to lay any charges against Henson we have reached an impasse. Indeed, the same arguments have been going back and forth