Plot: New York, 1968. Beautiful Chelsea Deardon is celebrating her 8th birthday with a swinging party in her father’s artist loft/studio in Soho. Chelsea’s old dad is a celebrated painter and he has dedicated a special picture to her with
Jeanne is confronted with a terrible truth – although she has loved to the edge of madness, her Modigliani is also one of the most overrated artists of all time.
Of all the Hollywood movies about artists perhaps one of the best known of the last decade is Julian Schnabel’s affectionate 1996 biopic of his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The movie is great example of the ‘troubled genius’ approach to making
Plot: Finn [Ethan Hawke] is a dreamy kid who goes for long walks on the beach and keeps a sketchbook full of faux-naif drawings of fish. Finn yearns for the emotionally unavailable Estella [Gwyneth Paltrow] who lives with her aunt
The way blogs work is that if someone notices you, you should notice them back. The Art Life celebrated a big week last week, sailing well over 460 hits in two days and we have in large part to thank
Melbourne is a bit of a conundrum for us; we like to know that there is another entire city in Australia that you can visit for long weekends or shopping trips or perhaps to go and see the odd exhibition