This week a judge in New Mexico ordered Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay a civil penalty of US$25 billion for intentionally ...

Art fairs are incubators of optimism, and the hopeful idea at Art Jakarta is that those 20-somethings buying merchandise or tiny paintings by regional artists will sooner or later begin shopping at ...

This piece was originally written for The Australian, which is just about the only newspaper that will print my commentary ...

When the S.H. Ervin Gallery held a show of Margaret Olley’s work in 2017, she had been gone more than five years but still felt magnificently alive. It’s now been 15 years since Olley departed but my ...

Every year, as the media issues a cavalcade of banal reports on the Archibald Prize, a progressive disenchantment settles on artists and other denizens of the art community. The gulf between the way ...

Although the Archibald Prize grabs all the headlines, the Wynne Prize deserves our respect as Australia’s longest running art competition. The Archibald was first awarded in 1921, but the Wynne ...

One morning last year in New York City, a queue formed at the entrance to the David Zwirner Gallery. As the day progressed, the line grew longer and longer, until it extended around the block. The ...

In January 1965, Fred and Lyn Williams returned from seven months in Europe, where they had pursued an exhausting schedule, absorbing more art than most travellers would see in a lifetime. Williams ...

In 2003, I was running a not-for-profit gallery called Newcontemporaries at the top of Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. It was the perfect sequel to my previous job at the National Gallery ...

It’s been seven years since the once-prolific Bruce Beresford directed a feature. That movie, Ladies in Black (2018) took me by surprise. It was so up-tempo, so cheerful, yet full of keen observations ...

During the pandemic of 2021 an exceptional group of French Impressionists travelled to Australia but barely got out of their crates. Nowhere in the world have artists such as Monet, Renoir, Degas and ...