No Australian artist better crystallises the confusion that reigns in our art institutions today than Margaret Preston.

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

Click to read Everything the artworld doesn't want you to know, by John McDonald, a Substack publication.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of the best experiences in Australian art is Darwin during the second week of August. The nominal highlight is the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), sponsored by ...