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From Bonny Dot Cassidy… Joseph Mallord William Turner, A mountain scene, Val d’Aosta, c.1840.Oil on canvas, 91.5x122cm For about six months, I’d had a postcard of Turner’s A mountain scene, Val d’Aosta’ (c.1845) reproduction framed above my desk. It hung
On Saturday October 13, The Art Life were lucky enough to be guests of ARC – Art, Design & Craft Biennial 2007. We were invited to speak on a panel discussion called The Cult of The New. Here is an
The National Gallery of Australia and its presentation of The Aboriginal Memorial have a long and chequered history. Originally conceived by Djon Mundine at the time of the Bicentennial as a memorial to 200 years of the victims of white
The corpses continued to pile up in the Art Cemetery last week. Erik Jensen’s obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday Angry young artists get the brush-off – farewelled someone you could be forgiven for thinking might have been
Marcus Trimble, editor of top architecture blog Gravestmor completes his three part guest blog for The Art Life with this installment on new art galleries around the world. Please join us in thanking Mr. Trimble for his fine efforts and
This is our second last, or if you prefer, “penultimate” guest blog until we return full time in mid May. It’s from a long time reader of the our blog. Please enjoy Carl Andre, Floor Piece, Art Cologne. Dear the
Radio National’s arts program Art Works recently asked The Art Life to contribute to their series of essays on paintings that have had an influence on writers. We didn’t have to think for very long to know exactly which painting
Kevin Robertson is an artist who lives in Western Australia. He dropped by to leave this comment regarding our recent 25 Predictions for The Future post: “This is really dire. Apart for being a vacuous piece of writing, I have
We received our first bit of MCA/Biennale bumpf in the mail – a handsome little mail out with pictures of the art we will see in the shows and other extra exciting events. These events include the Biennale keynote lecture
We were rocked last week by some disturbing news – you may be thinking, oh no, not that Craig–Ruddy-is-it-a-painting-is-it-a-drawing-backed-by-Liberals snore-athon. Well, no, it’s the shock discovery that Wendy Matthews is a huge fan of “painter” Bruno Dutot. We’ve been talking