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Post Secret * “The referencing of historical styles or iconic works has been popular since the 1970s, but it seems that since Julian Schnabel, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince, the conceptual nature of this sort of work has become shallow
I am the simulacrum of myself…
The hot summer wind can make things seem awfully confused. There have been several persistent rumours and weird news items doing the rounds of the art world. A fun rumour for 2007 was that Gallery Barry Keldoulis was moving to
It’s that time of year when there’s so little real news that all sorts of crazy projects can make their way into the mainstream media. All you need is a press release. The Sydney Morning Herald in its venerable and
Apparently photography is passé. That’s according to Sebastian Smee anyway, and his Image Fatigue article two weeks ago in The Australian – see Critics At A Glance III – has generated quite a few bemused reactions. According to Smee, photography
You know, we thought Margaret Olley was maybe off with the pixies – having spoken to her on a few occasions we weren’t sure whether she was play-acting the mad old biddy routine and was secretly Buddha-like beneath the cardigans
The Black Fellas Dreaming Gallery on Oxford Street is terrible. The paintings in the window that we see as we walk past on our way to Taylor Square or the bottle shop are uniformly awful and we have never ever
How dare reality intrude on our fantasy world?!! We knew full well that trying to predict the winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture is virtually impossible, especially considering the fickle and perverse tastes and decisions of the Art Gallery
It’s that time of year again with the return of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture for 2004 and another raft of stories about artists getting their entries in on time. But if you’re an artist and you’re entering a painting
Quirky Irishman Dr. Brian Kennedy announced on Monday that he would not be seeking a renewal of his contract at the National Gallery of Australia. After seven years, he’s out and heading back to Europe or perhaps New York, depending