Do we need to reassess our current strategies for marketing Australian art to the world?

On June 24 this year New York-based Australian artist, Sara Morawetz embarked on a 2000 kilometre walk through France and Spain for a performance titled étalon. During each week of the project she’s been accompanied by one of twelve collaborating artists and writers. In September Sharne Wolff joined Sara on the track from Carcassonne to Perpignan. During their time together they had many conversations. This is just one…

Sharne Wolff gazes into the haze of Gerhard Richter’s career survey…

In 2004, a large group of British art critics determined that Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (a white urinal turned upside-down and signed ‘R. Mutt’) was the most influential work of the 20th century. Successive pop artists from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons blurred the boundaries between art and life by insisting that art could be anything. Adding a twist of Australian suburbia, Nigel Sense continues this approach in his exhibition, Art is Lettuce…

Do we need to reassess our current strategies for marketing Australian art to the world?

Over 170 individual works (plus additional special projects) from 387 artists and collectives span two sites of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Exotic Lies Sacred Ties, a 12-year survey of artist Danie Mellor’s practice at the University of Queensland Art Museum, deals with the ongoing legacies of colonialism…