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The best art speaks for all time and is timeless.  It is simply beyond time and place.  It is not fixed to or merely relevant to its time. I

With artists. galleries, academics and institutions focusing once more on the primacy of drawing in painting, the distinctions that had foun

Artists have always played a pivotal role in marketing their work.  Yet artists at their core often resist this.  The thought of creating a

It is disappointing that artists and their gallery directors or dealers cannot access couples counselling.  If they could, maybe they would

Romanticism rightly still holds an important place among contemporary Australian landscape art.  It has never gone away.  However, many mode

“I react to this landscape because I like the feeling of being in it. It encompasses you and one becomes a part of it”, explains artist Guy

Among the chaotic growth of Flinders Lane through the 1880’s and ‘90’s, this bluestone, industry-lined street gave rise to two of the city’s

The paintings of Australian artist James Drinkwater are hard to define.  But this is anything but a problem.  Despite their gestural intrica

As art institutions from London’s Tate to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art revisit and examine the far-reaching influence of European a

Each year the release of Sydney Contemporary’s final list of galleries and their exhibiting artists is eagerly anticipated.  It provides a s

This Melbourne Art Fair is over.  Born of a troubled past, this year’s fair was a slimmed down version of its former self.  To be fair, the

Philip Wolfhagen is a talented and influential painter.  His paintings are as much an ecological elegy and eulogy as they are philosophical

This year Australian artist Fred Cress would have turned 80. To acknowledge the anniversary, Australian Galleries in Sydney is holding a ret

While the spectacular hinterland of South East Queensland has provided unparalleled inspiration for much of William Robinson's work, the

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judge, Wendy Sharpe, described Tim Storrier’s 2017 winning painting of fellow Australian artist McLean Ed

At a time when Australian artists from film, ballet, fashion and music are touring and fashioning strong reputations internationally, Austra

Now exhibiting in Melbourne, artists Luke Sciberras and Kathryn Ryan straddle two worlds in their exploration of Country. Bringing the sum

It was approaching late afternoon one day in October 2012 at London’s Tate Museum when, say astonished witnesses, a man in his late 20’s cal

The female body in an artistic form has always been capable of arousing sexual desire.  From playfully seductive, neoclassical portrayals to

Certainly the artist is not alone in being drawn to the naked woman in repose as a source of inspiration, or lust.   But nothing arguably ha