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The Sydney Morning Herald’s art critic John McDonald now has his own website and blog…
![It’s in the brain](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Carrie Miller wonders whether recent developments in neuroaessthetics might have useful applications outside the lab – like weeding out art world phonies…
![Devine loses her mojo](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
It’s got to be tough being a journalist when there’s no story to report. Last night’s opening at Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney of Bill Henson’s latest show has proven a disappointment for op-ed writers and lovers of salacious controversy
![Media and murder](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Professor Joanna Mendelssohn was among those first contacted by members of the media in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Nick Waterlow and his daughter Chloe Heuston. In this article on the ethics of news reporting – originally commissioned
![New Angles](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Thursday June 4 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and the subsequent massacre of an unknown number of students. Perhaps the most famous image to become associated with the event is the single frame of photojournalism
![Well Fancy That #14](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
“The Dobell [Prize for Drawing], at the Art Gallery of NSW, is a good case study because it is one of the better prizes: it is well organised and motivated by good intentions. The idea of an acquisitive prize supporting
![Unimpeachably Hefty](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Kevin Robertson is an artist who lives in Western Australia. He dropped by to leave this comment regarding our recent 25 Predictions for The Future post: “This is really dire. Apart for being a vacuous piece of writing, I have