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The above is a bumper sticker you can peel from your computer screen and attach to your car, briefcase or t-shirt. It appears on the website of our friends at Gravestmor, the web site that does for architecture what we
How popular is the Archibald Prize? According to London’s The Art Newspaper (March 2005), Australia’s best-loved portrait prize came ninth in a listing of contemporary art exhibitions around the globe for 2004. With 116,501 visitors, the Archibald Prize found itself
Back in 2000 when Adam Cullen won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of David Wenham there was talk in certain quarters that “things had changed”, that somehow this was going to become a prize for contemporary art. Although Cullen’s
Say you had a whole lot of pictures and you had to hang them in three rooms. How would you go about ordering or sequencing them? It must be a big question for the poor bastards whose unenviable job it
Smart painters have known for some time that the competition to enter is the Wynne Prize for landscape painting. Since abstract paintings are admitted, and no one is going to stand up and say, that’s not a ‘frickin’ landscape!’ the
We need to see a doctor. We were feeling distinctly unwell after seeing the Sulman Prize and have had a persistent headache for nearly a week. We always like this bizarre competition for “genre painting’ (read: ‘anything you like award’)
Sandro Nocentini, My son has two mothers, Oil on canvas. Courtesy Art Gallery of NSW TAL: What’s the actual set up for judging – do you walk around a big room and look at a bunch of art works or
When the result was announced, the entire room was in a state of shock. With so many gongs already handed out and so much history already played out in the glare of the klieg lights, the announcement of the winner’s
Looking at the web and the newspapers and listening to the pundits on radio, there’s a massive consensus out there that John Olsen will walk away with the Archibald. Informed opinion has it that Olsen’s entry is a “painting” –
There’s also a lot of talk about Nigel Milsom. He’s being watched by some very influential people, and unbeknownst to us, he’s already been supported by some well heeled collectors and curators who believe in his talent. Every once in