The art market can be so cruel. The kids of Manly Village Public School have a biennial art auction where the children’s art is sold to raise money for the school. Last weekend the parents, students and teachers raised $23,000

Influenza has gripped The Art Life office, so we offer a much abridged update. We promise a bumper edition next week. In the meantime, perhaps patrons would like to avail themselves of our newly updated Sorted links on the right

It’s that time of year again – you can’t choose the right jacket to go out in because the weather is always undecided and the Crested Pigeons are doing a dance on the roof next door. Yes, it’s spring time

Sebastian Smee, our favourite expat arts writer – and let’s all hope he stays that way – likes to decorate his writing with what he knows. His recent piece for The Australian’s Review section displayed Smee’s mad passion for the

There’s a real sense of backlog here at The Art Life and we’re doing the best we can to shift it. Perhaps a little bran in the morning will help? People are writing in and asking questions like “hey, what

Imagine a painting by John Young. There’s an image taken from a source of classical Indian, Chinese or Tibetan art or some such, and then there’s some images placed over the top, a boat, or a flower, some clouds or

Across town there’s another show of paintings that could loosely be described as “conceptual” – if such a term means much anymore – but where an artist like John Young eschews any expressionist inferences in his work, Noel McKenna embraces

Last week we were asked if it were true that the Art Gallery of NSW was closing down the Level 2 Contemporary Projects space after the end of the current James Angus truck installation. We promised we would ask someone