Kate James, The world is a dangerous place (detail). Knitted wool, Pegasus digital print, installation dimensions variable. Photo by Clare James. As far as idiosyncrasy is concerned Kate James from RMIT is in a place all of her own in

As you might expect, there was a lot of video and photography in Hatched05 and not much of it very interesting. Most of the works obeyed the rules of video production and stuck to well known and well worn modes

The Art Life are a group of artists and writers who got together in 2004 to start a blog. A blog is like an online diary but with higher production values. We publish once or twice a week and we

The Museum of Contemporary Art have announced the artists to be showcased in their annual Primavera exhibition. This year’s curator is the redoubtable Felicity Fenner who has brought together nine artists for the showcase of new talent: Monika Behrens and

The sale last night of the Fosters collection by Sotheby’s does little to disprove the notion that if you’re after sentimental Australiana, you’d better be prepared to fork out the big bucks. With a brace of works by blue chip

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Sometimes we have to take our knocks. A reader took us to task for our short piece last week on the latest Christie’s Contemporary sale: Since when does Art Life fall for the laziest trick in the journalistic lexicon and

The Art Life is taking a short break as we fly to Perth this week to take part in PICA’s HATCHED05 Symposium. We’ll be joining Un Magazine’s Lily Hibberd to speak on the topic Why Write About Art? The next

Someone last year asked us what we thought was good art writing. We’re always mouthing off about what we think is bad but, come on, if you’re all so goddamn smart, what’s good? Well, what we want is an art