Boycott call prompts questions about self-publishing
Art dealer Beverly Knight has called for a boycott of a monograph by collector Pat Corrigan. We investigate the line between vanity driven publishing and the…
From Mona to Archie – the cult of the portrait
When is the line for a portrait more about cult tourism than the art on display? It is said that visitors spend on average of about…
Too dangerous for the museum
Museums can be safe places for unsafe topics but a leading museum director argues there is a point when ideas become too dangerous for museums to…
Corporate sponsorship: vanity or sanity?
Disruption is the new mantra. We look at how cultural organisations can use it to accelerate brand alignment with sponsors to sustain their futures. For the…
Textile art reinvented
Textile art is back bolder and more conceptually-driven than ever before, challenging definitions of material and practice. Textile art is one of the oldest art forms…
How is a work of art valued?
How do valuers arrive as prices for artworks? We demystify the process with an expert. While we can argue about constitutes “good” or “bad” art, how…
Beyond Success: can a gallery keep growing?
Nick Mitzevich has quadrupled philanthropy and increased attendances by 30% at the Art Gallery of South Australia so what’s left for the encore? Mitzevich was appointed…
How do art auctions work?
Forget elitism – we bring you a glossary that demystifies the art auction, opening a door on a whole other world of collecting. Art Auctions are…
Arty merchandise sells
The shop has become a key component to the museum experience, but also a robust revenue stream vital to galleries of all scales. Museums and galleries…
You can’t put that there…the Public Art dilemma
Is an over-sized milk crate better than a bronze of another eminent white male? Multi-million dollar commissions make public art an increasingly polarising topic. With the…
Is my art leaving on a jet plane?
With the rise of art fairs and biennales internationally, Australian artists are competing in global shopping malls that dictate the market for good or ill. As…
New ceramicists don’t care to be cool
What is driving the rediscovery of ceramics, their renewed collectability and place in the museum environment? It is not surprising as part of this year’s Art…
Alex Seton: Refoulement
Island dreams and hopes get shipwrecked with Seton’s new sculptures, which continue his interest in the issue of asylum seekers. Seton captures deflated hopes with his…
Beyogmos: Mai Nguyen-Long
LABORATORY FOR LABELS: As human beings we have an automatic compulsion to assign ‘things’ a place, compelled to tether a person and their actions to prescribed…
UnBound, Yuchengco Museum Manila
BOUNCE: UnBound (Yuchengco Museum, 24 January-20 February 2013) explored how culture can move beyond physical boundaries and the cartographic disposition of nation-based exhibitions and pre-packaged notions…
Trans/portable (Manila)
With its title Trans/portable, this exhibition at the independent MO_space Manila (4 August – 2 September 2012), explored how culture is carried beyond cartographic or physical…
Australians slicing up the Big Apple
Brisbane artist Donna Marcus was in residence when the New York Green Street Studio’s founded Robert Jacks recently passed away, just weeks before his retrospective, Robert…