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

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 ...

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

During the pandemic of 2021 an exceptional group of French Impressionists travelled to Australia but barely got out of their crates. Nowhere in the world have artists such as Monet, Renoir, Degas and ...

All art fairs are essentially shopping malls, but their content varies widely in response to location and to varied economic and cultural factors. In Indonesia last week for the 13 th edition of Art ...

A major event can’t run for 28 years without a few ups and downs, but 2025 has been an especially difficult time for Sculpture by the Sea (SXS). Since its inception in 1997, this famous, annual ...

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 ...

Although the Archibald Prize grabs all the headlines, the Wynne Prize deserves our respect as Australia’s longest running art competition. The Archibald was first awarded in 1921, but the Wynne ...

When the S.H. Ervin Gallery held a show of Margaret Olley’s work in 2017, she had been gone more than five years but still felt magnificently alive. It’s now been 15 years since Olley departed but my ...

It’s a dismal fact the media only gets excited about the visual arts when there is a high-profile forgery, some huge price paid for a work, or a daring robbery. Pascal Bonitzer’s The Stolen Painting, ...

One morning last year in New York City, a queue formed at the entrance to the David Zwirner Gallery. As the day progressed, the line grew longer and longer, until it extended around the block. The ...