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STICKING YOUR NECK OUT AND THE PERILS OF PROGNOSTICATION

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...

NOTHING IF NOT CRITICAL [to quote Robert Hughes]

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...

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