Art Life readers are suspicious people, shifting blame for art on to the middle class, are strangely aroused by art and have a keen interest in aesthetics… Our shock poll proves it: When I Hear the Word “Culture” I Blame

Due to some horrendous spell-check gremlins, some artist’s names in the story below were rendered not as they were intended, but as spell check imagined them. While we don’t necessarily like certain artist’s work, we’re not out to ridicule anyone.

Why is the National Trust SH Ervin Gallery at the top of a very big hill? If it was at the bottom of a hill, perhaps in a dingly dell surrounded by flannel flowers and babbling brooks, we might be

Just because you can do a thing, is it necessarily a good idea to go ahead and do it? This is the conundrum of art that is a conceptualised practice rather than an impressionistic impulse – should the artist go

Art Write is a publication put out by students of the University of NSW College of Fine Arts. It has been running in various guises since 1992, first appearing as a Word 5 doc and, after a few intermediary steps,

Anyway, there’s this TV series that’s has its last episode tonight and frankly, we were over it about a year and a half ago. We have our TV allegiances and we have residual loyalty to SiTC but things have been

Our latest poll proves decisively that Art Life readers have little time for red and blue paintings done in acrylics. Perhaps even more surprising is that if it’s not a painting, all the better. I Like A Painting that is

The Tall Show – A new mixed media show for artists over 181cms tall, the art varies from painting and photography to video installation, but does not necessarily conform to the bean pole theme. The Tall Gallery, Until Nov 30.

The season we love the most here at The Art Life is nearly upon us. Yes, it’s that’s difficult ten week period from mid-November until the end of January when commercial galleries go on holiday, the public galleries let their