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Catalyst for a creative revolution?
Guest blogger Carl Scrase argues that we can learn a lot from Iceland and argues for a rethink of how cultural policy is formulated and implemented... Could Simon Crean's cultural policy be the...
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ROCK EXPLOSION!
Twenty original artists, twenty original hits!Sharne Wolff on why buying art is like buying music, sort of... It’s that time of year again - already. You know the time when all the commercial...
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Group Hug
Come on everyone, gather around, Andrew Frost is offering a hug... If contemporary art were a person it would have sued the mainstream media for defamation by now. It is routinely libelled and...
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Winners, Losers…
Guest blogger Halinka Orszulok attended the opening of the Redlands Westpac Art Prize and discovered the "Highlander rule" - there can only be one... Last night I attended the opening of the Redlands...
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This Is Reality
No one really believed that reality television had anything to do with reality, at least until Andrew Frost watched 'Work of Art'... The rules were fairly simple. The artists arrived at a warehouse...
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Apocryphal, Now
Andrew Frost takes a trip upriver into the psychic jungles and becalmed waters of the paintings of Laith McGregor and Alexander McKenzie... In the far corner of one of the continents of text that cover...
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1988: Year Zero
… when branding and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came...
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Super 8 Deluxe
Andrew Frost remembers the colours of the past, the Super Eighties and the things that happened... I remember colours. There was the orange cast of Kodachrome 40, Ektachrome 180 blue, and the...
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Thanks for the Invitation
Andrew Frost remembers openings, drinks, taxis - a typical Tuesday night... Gallery openings were always on a Tuesday. And they all opened at 6pm. So it was a matter of choosing which ones to go to....
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Who would have thought relational art would become so lucrative?
From Iconophile... Nearly two decades ago Nicolas Bourriaud coined the term ‘relational art’ to describe “a set of practices which takes as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole...
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