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Who says being popularist doesn’t pay?
Fetching $1.6 million under the hammer, Leonard Joel’s recent Pro Hart auction was a sellout.

10-minute bites on Asian Art a worthy chew
Former Asialink director, Alison Carroll, walks us through Asian art in a new series screened on ABC1 that targets schools.

SLAVE to good art
Christian Capurro’s new phone-video projection tips a hat to the minimalist light artist Dan Flavin, in an exhibition at ACCA.

Japan's erotic art tradition exposed
How different is circulating a 3D digital scan of a vagina from displaying a 17th Century Shunga print? Japan's obscenity…

Binns and Valamanesh: an odd pairing
Parallel survey exhibitions raise questions on collaboration, materiality and the role of the curator.

Fiona Lowry takes the 2014 Archibald Prize
Amid a sea of jostling media, the winners of this year’s prestigious Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes were announced. But…

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?

Sydney and Berlin swap galleries
Dominik Mersch has moved to Berlin for a month in a brilliant initiative to drive fresh collectors for Australian artists.

Move over Pixar – it's our turn to animate
If it’s not Disney or Pixar, it’s not animation, right? Wrong. QUT sets us right with a new interactive exhibition.

From Alice Jitterbug to the Melbourne Art Fair
Forty years on from his first persona, Luke Roberts continues to define performance art in Australia with a new exhibition.