No Australian artist better crystallises the confusion that reigns in our art institutions today than Margaret Preston.

This week a judge in New Mexico ordered Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay a civil penalty of US$25 billion for intentionally ...

Art fairs are incubators of optimism, and the hopeful idea at Art Jakarta is that those 20-somethings buying merchandise or tiny paintings by regional artists will sooner or later begin shopping at ...

This piece was originally written for The Australian, which is just about the only newspaper that will print my commentary ...

Every year, as the media issues a cavalcade of banal reports on the Archibald Prize, a progressive disenchantment settles on artists and other denizens of the art community. The gulf between the way ...

In 2003, I was running a not-for-profit gallery called Newcontemporaries at the top of Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. It was the perfect sequel to my previous job at the National Gallery ...

It’s rare for an art dealer to be given star billing in a museum exhibition but Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) was not just any art dealer - he was the man who took a bunch of scorned and despised ...

This essay was written for Harding family who spent years amassing a great collection of Australian art, including the most extensive holdings of work by Robert Klippel, David Rankin, John Firth-Smith ...

Few things better reveal the shallowness of Australia’s ‘art prize’ culture than the career of Eric Smith (1919-2017). Between 1953 and 2003, Smith won the Archibald Prize three times, the Wynne Prize ...

Khaled Sabsabi is no terrorist, although this is the impression anyone might get if they took all their news from the Murdoch press. The opposing point of view is that last week, Sabsabi became a ...