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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
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
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
Over at Roslyn Oxley Gallery we went to see the Tracey Emin show and we were curious, especially after all the nasty things we said about her. We had never actually seen anything by her in the flesh (so to
As we traveled down to Artspace, we considered the fact that Tracey Emin is obvious. She makes obvious statements and we like that because why waste a lot of time trying to figure something out? We could just as easily