by Alan Todd | Jul 28, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
A recent opinion piece promoted the idea that ‘Australia could unleash a cultural renaissance by paying artists a living wage’. [Lauren Harris, July 20, 2022]. With caveats detailing just who an artist is and is not, it is an idea worth pursuing and as Harris...
by Alan Todd | Jul 16, 2022 | Opinion
I well remember the Sydney Olympics and the unlicensed use of music between every point during the beach volleyball. The much-vaunted ‘best games ever’ seemed to have a mandate to do whatever it wanted when it came to violating copyright and they were not...
by Alan Todd | Jul 13, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Perhaps I should have viewed the two exhibitions in reverse order. After the scintillating colour of one I was left with the sepia toned staleness of the other and even where colour was lavishly applied with a visible brush by painterly artists, the colour took...
by Alan Todd | Jun 24, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
This week I received a copy of Prime, The Next Generation of artists [Phaiden]. It follows the Vitamin series in canvassing the art world as a predictive summation rather than writing in retrospect as is the case for every other book on my shelves. Some 700...
by Alan Todd | Jun 7, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Living in South Australia, something I hear every so often is that there is little or no art criticism available – the death of various publications usually held to blame in the wake of covid. That doesn’t mean that criticism isn’t taking place at...
