Clearly, we know nothing about the Melbourne art scene. Aren’t those Angry Penguins still angry? We would have thought so, what with all the melting ice and poetry floating around? Clearly Ted Colless is important, as are Artie and Corrine

Meanwhile, we find a minor victory for a special alliance between ignoramuses and the aesthetically outraged as the Sydney Morning Herald’s Spike column reports that Ken Unsworth’s much hated sculpture Stones Against The Sky is going to be “axed”. Standing

When we jokingly said that Tim Olsen Gallery should be in the Rocks two weeks ago we were wrong. After spending half a day walking around Woollahra we realise that it’s in exactly the right place. There are so many

It’s the last days of Richard Grayson’s show at Yuill/Crowley on until November 6. The hubbub in the press has been about the 2 channel video piece called Messiah which is a Country and Western reworking of Handel’s Messiah and

Readers of The Art Life demanded it! So here is our very special Melbourne influential arts person poll. Vote early, vote often! ==>

As Steve Martin so eloquently put it, some people have a way with words while other people… not have way. Artists, however, can do anything they set their minds to – paint pictures, make movies, start a band, write a

The people who are supposed to “have way” with art writing – the professionals – sometimes get a bit confused too, and perhaps none more confused than Peter Hill. Oh no, you’re saying, not the beleaguered SMH art critic again,

The magic of the internet! State of The Arts editor Caroline Meagher emailed this response from Matthew Collings to our recent comments that he was turning into an old fogery. Imagine our surprise when Collings responded to our article… Although