Art Critique
The man who painted Jesus
Matthew Robert Anderson, Concordia University April 30 is the 127th birthday of an artist whose name you probably don’t know, but his work may be the most widely distributed of […]
A new exhibition captures the magic and power of tattoos across cultures
Fareed Kaviani, Monash University Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, a suite of exhibitions at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum, offers visitors a chance to engage with tattoo on a level deeper […]
Indonesian art is fresh, energetic and lively. Why do we not see more of it?
Alison Carroll, University of Melbourne Review: Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia, National Gallery of Australia They talk of a family of nations, or families of nations. In Australia, the UK can still […]
Leading auction house Sotheby’s takes legal hit amidst Rybolovlev-Bouvier battle
Just days after the announcement that Sotheby’s is set to be sold for $3.7 billion to a company owned by French media tycoon Patrick Drahi, the company suffered a bruising […]
Glass skyscrapers: a great environmental folly that could have been avoided
Henrik Schoenefeldt, University of Kent New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that skyscrapers made of glass and steel “have no place in our city or our Earth […]
An intimate, arresting exhibition highlights the hard work of living queer
Leigh Boucher, Macquarie University Queerdom, an exhibition showing at the Imperial Hotel in Erksineville, is an arresting and unsettling archive of queer and trans performances in Sydney. A collaboration […]
Art Basel highlights the art trading which takes place in the shadows
Art Basel—the world’s biggest art fair— kicks off this week, with thousands of art lovers expected to descend on the Swiss city for six days of lavish events and art […]
