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Skanky Jane of the world-famous Skanky Jane’s Ruses of Pleasure blog has written to The Art Life to announce the birth of her latestblogging project – Skanky Jane’s Bargain Box. It’s a project that welcomes all visual art themed contributions.

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RE: Pleasure of Knowing Your Mindset

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Well Fancy That #13

Well Fancy That #13

Stuff Aug 20, 2007

Critics, alas, are expected to speak about art like adults, not like children.

John Mangos Likes My Art Shock

Ben Frost Painting Furore, from YouTube

Well Fancy That #12

Well Fancy That #12

Stuff Aug 20, 2007

“Conventional genres such as landscape or still life are excluded, giving the impression that contemporary Latin American art is largely conceptual. One could put together a travelling show of Australian art with the same bias but it would probably not

Mr Softie

Mr Softie

Op-ed Aug 15, 2007

The corpses continued to pile up in the Art Cemetery last week. Erik Jensen’s obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday Angry young artists get the brush-off – farewelled someone you could be forgiven for thinking might have been

Color Me In And Win A Prize
Blog Kameraden

Blog Kameraden

Media , Weblife Aug 14, 2007

“Tunnel – self portrait – is part of a series that focuses on the notion of stranger in a strange place; the challenges and outcomes of spending time in new and foreign lands. I am interested in exploring concepts of

Notional Museum

Curiosity drove The Art Life to the National Museum of Australia. How has it weathered the storm of the history wars? Did it survive the intense criticism of its so-called “black armband” view of Australian history and which led to

Art – all you need is cash.

Flags fluttered along Macquarie Street down to the Opera House, the brightly coloured banners read like a who’s who of contemporary art, Warhol, Freud, Sherman etc. They were also the names of artists whose works belong to the UBS collection