Visual Arts
Pay it forward
The art market can be incredibly lucrative, as galleries and auction houses the world over will attest. As with any…
Art in shaken Asia
Yogjakarta - Indonesia’s art epicentre – as we know, was devastated by an earthquake on 27 May leaving around 200,000…
3 W’s of cultural policy
"It is useful to think about cultural policy across many different fields; that we should be aware it can be…
Outsider Art
In Sydney’s south, an exhibition is being held at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery of works which once would have been described…
To Smoke or not to Smoke? That is the question!
The issues surrounding the banning of smoking in public and the more recent flurries about banning on-stage smoking have been…
Artists with borders
After September 11 and the ensuing ‘war on terror’, the United States and many of its Western allies went into…
Artists clustered around creative industries
In the past artists were supported and directed by patrons. Today it is clients and arts boards that dictate an…
A necessary refuge
One would be hard pressed to look at any of the world’s media sources nowadays without coming across a story…
Victory for abusive artists
On the evening of January 31st, 2006 the Blair government suffered a shock defeat over its plans to combat racial…
Framing the front line
"The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware…