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The latest issue of First Draft’s magazine Runway is out and it’s themed “escape”. At six dollars it’s cheaper than a round of drinks après opening and just as fun. Among the contributors is a very fine piece by Ella
Christie’s Contemporary Art sale on May 24 is the latest in the company’s on going efforts to foster a market for Australian contemporary art. With a modest 135 lots, the selection of works goes for quality over quantity. Also notable
Gary Carsley, artist, is a Capricorn. The light side of the typical Capricorn personality is manifested by a well developed sense of humour, a will to create a sense of order out of the world and the wise management of
When we went to see the latest show by Todd Hunter at GrantPirrie, we had to remind ourselves once more that he did not play bass with 70s Oz rock legends Dragon. That was a different Todd Hunter and while
The above is a bumper sticker you can peel from your computer screen and attach to your car, briefcase or t-shirt. It appears on the website of our friends at Gravestmor, the web site that does for architecture what we
How popular is the Archibald Prize? According to London’s The Art Newspaper (March 2005), Australia’s best-loved portrait prize came ninth in a listing of contemporary art exhibitions around the globe for 2004. With 116,501 visitors, the Archibald Prize found itself
Back in 2000 when Adam Cullen won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of David Wenham there was talk in certain quarters that “things had changed”, that somehow this was going to become a prize for contemporary art. Although Cullen’s
Say you had a whole lot of pictures and you had to hang them in three rooms. How would you go about ordering or sequencing them? It must be a big question for the poor bastards whose unenviable job it
Smart painters have known for some time that the competition to enter is the Wynne Prize for landscape painting. Since abstract paintings are admitted, and no one is going to stand up and say, that’s not a ‘frickin’ landscape!’ the
We need to see a doctor. We were feeling distinctly unwell after seeing the Sulman Prize and have had a persistent headache for nearly a week. We always like this bizarre competition for “genre painting’ (read: ‘anything you like award’)