The Art Life is taking a short break. We’ll be back with a full update on November 3rd, and perhaps a shorter update before then too. You never know. In the meantime, please enjoy our new links in the Sorted

What is it about taking an artist’s signature and turning it into a brand that’s so utterly dodgy? At Tim Olsen Gallery, the latest John Olsen show features the maestro’s signature featured on a wall in the gallery window. One

We have for some time been trying to work out how to include a review of Disc Gallery on The Art Life. The problem so far has been that the exhibitions there have been pretty bad – first time photographers

Day Street has to be the most inaccessible street in Sydney right now. With the cross city tunnel tearing up the tarmac and plastic bollards all over the place, not to mention all the one way streets and road closures,

It’s hard to describe the disillusionment we felt upon reading the latest issue of State of The Arts. The magazine has been undergoing a bit of a redesign and editorial rejig over the last few issues and seems to be

You didn’t think Elizabeth Ann Macgregor wore those boots as a fashion statement did you? They fight dirty, they fight mean and the final vote shows that the upstarts gave the dowdy Art Gallery of NSW a kicking they won’t

We persist in spelling Leigh Bowery as Leigh Bowrey. We don’t know why – it’ some sort of mental block. We apologise to the readers who have faithfully and repeatedly emailed us to point out this (and other) mistakes. We

We’ve been meaning for ages to get down to MOP Projects , thinking it had taken over the old space that had been occupied by PCL Exhibitionists. We have another mental block, this one about that end of Elizabeth Street

“747” emailed us to say that we should institute a Quote Of The Week feature here at The Art Life and it seems like a good idea. We’ll get some people on to it. 747 says we should kick off