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From Just $1490 A Week

For those of you who have always wanted to live like a successful millionaire artist but just didn’t have the ackers, well, now you have the chance to live just like Tracey Moffatt – and in her house. In a

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All In The Numbers

First, the bad news. Our planned updates from Venice never eventuated because of a number of logistical reasons. The most pressing problem was the Serene Republic’s lack of net cafes, the second problem was that there was no time to

Saluti dalla centrale del "blag" di arte!

TEAM Art Life is on the international blag express to Venice!

Well Fancy That #9

Well Fancy That #9

Stuff May 28, 2007

Gursky’s 1999 photograph of an American 99 cent store may have sold for more than $US3 million at auction but it is the kind of picture anyone with a good camera and a passing acquaintance with Photoshop could have taken.

Art Life On Your TV

Remember all those things we said about The Oz, Seb Smee and all the others? Well, we were drunk – yes, drunk!

Noh New York

High Times Hard Times New York Painting 1967 –1975…

Art Galleries: As New, Hardly Used

Marcus Trimble, editor of top architecture blog Gravestmor completes his three part guest blog for The Art Life with this installment on new art galleries around the world. Please join us in thanking Mr. Trimble for his fine efforts and

Spiral Jetty [1970]

Robert Smithson‘s Spiral Jetty film, 1970. From Youtube [and perhaps not for much longer, so hurry…]

Fairs Fare

Fairs Fare

Art Life , Op-ed May 04, 2007

This is our second last, or if you prefer, “penultimate” guest blog until we return full time in mid May. It’s from a long time reader of the our blog. Please enjoy Carl Andre, Floor Piece, Art Cologne. Dear the

This Is Modern Art

Radio National’s arts program Art Works recently asked The Art Life to contribute to their series of essays on paintings that have had an influence on writers. We didn’t have to think for very long to know exactly which painting