The candidates for this year’s Turner prize all work with their political and social pasts, injustice, prejudice and colonialism as the reworking of history seemingly exists to teach us lessons. While art has always been utilised as propaganda, those lessons essentially fall on deaf ears.
A recent controversy over the work of Damien Hirst has brought the idea of conceptual and finished dates into question.
It is not often that portrait painting makes the news twice in a week – albeit it for different reasons. There is nothing new about images of the ultra-rich being hung on a wall and in many historic cases, the painted portrait is the only evidence of their...
In Australia there is hardly an outback road sign that is not peppered with bullet holes but then again, this has nothing to do with art so much as road signs being fair game.
My most frequent response to the question of retirement is that it depends what they mean by retired.
For some decades now the art world has been pondering where it is heading, if it is heading anywhere in particular or in indeed if it could ever have a singular face