Perhaps the easiest way to give an art event some value is to make it exclusive. Everywhere I see by "invitation only" for opening events: gallery openings, book launches.  It is interesting that now, art organizers feel the need to do this.  At long last the visual arts have become an extension of the marketing division as they are increasingly corporatised and [...]

So on Friday me, Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper will asking people to dump work from their private collections in a rubbish bin.

Please join Empty Office at the Bag Factory on Friday night for a discussion about the role of local contemporary art in a democratic state/neo-liberal economy.

Panelists

Michael Smith (Managing Editor of Artthrob) 

Antoinette Murdoch  (Director of the [...]

I asked what Robert Sloon said to his friends about my writing and he said that he would do this face-to-face.  Just before that he told me that having a private debate about the lack of public dialogue in the art world is a bit of a paradox and then proceeds to say that he can only comment on my writing face to face, ie. privately.  Me thinks the bravado if the art world outlaw is [...]

Thanks for the response on my piece on the Everard Read. A lot of people are saying that posting comments on this blog is a mission, so I  will forward you comment to the administrative personel. The aesthetic of this website is completely out of my control.  If I had my way I would go for a text heavy, academic look- no images, no scrolling banners.  I would screen each interested [...]