Although we had expected to go to sleep over the Christmas-New Year’s break, we were troubled and couldn’t properly drift off. Those die hard artists who run Peloton actually kept the gallery operating between December 25 and now, even having

Sebastian Smee wrote to us in December with a few complaints. We run his email in full: “May I correct a couple of points? I never wrote “I hate video art.” I was so impressed with the various video components

On the 30th of December we discovered the following brief but to-the-point comment attached to our review of the Year in Art exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery from November. “You are a fuckwit with no life.” Perhaps ruminating on

The Art Gallery of NSW has just announced the winner of the Anne Landa Award. David Rosetzky is the happy camper who gets a cheque for $25,000 beating out stiff competition from favourites Shaun Gladwell and Guy Benfield. “David Rosetzky

It can’t be true, can it? John McDonald to take over from Peter Hill as the art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald? We’re taking the blue pill now…

Apparently this is as good as it gets. Reading The Australian on the weekend we read a front page story by Matt Price that here in our sun burnt country “life doesn’t get any better.” Quoting from authoritative sources such

In our recent expedition around every gallery listed in Art Almanac for the month of December, we made a terrible discovery. There is a lot of really bad art out there. We were genuinely and truly shocked. We thought that

We’ll be back in late January (possibly February, depending on the weather) fully refreshed and revitalized for the year ahead. Merry Xmas to all our readers.

Guy Benfield 40% 23 David Rosetzky 17% 10 Shaun Gladwell 12% 7 Peter Hennessey 12% 7 Craig Walsh 10% 6 Van Sowerwine 9% 5 total votes: 58