by Alan Todd | Apr 20, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Just what does the ‘public’ part of public art amount to? Should the public even be involved? Public sculpture is a challenge for any artist tasked with catering for a range of tastes and opinions and seldom pleases everyone. You’d have to be really unlucky to...
by Alan Todd | Apr 12, 2023 | Art, Artist, Opinion
The idea of cultural stagnation could be said to derive from imitation and repetition without context. Recycled forms of music and art, to say nothing of ‘classic’ TV comedy keep being revived for a new generation where every day of the last century exists...
by Alan Todd | Apr 3, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
I recently sat through the 2023 Series of Australian Idol and while I had in the end no investment in who won or of which judge topped the popularity stakes, the idea of public taste determining a winner suggested on the one hand a belief that statistical...
by Alan Todd | Mar 27, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Last year I spoke to an artist who had had to remove and rehang her exhibition three times until it was out of the view of offended pensioners using a community centre. She took her dilemma to a radio station and received a sympathetic reception but in the end,...
by Alan Todd | Feb 28, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
I’ve come across this phenomenon a few times before where the broken, the shredded, the lost and the unfinished in the Arts are acclaimed as much as is the pristine. This week it was a Koons Balloon Dog. An artist-collector wants to buy the broken shards,...
