Visual Arts
10 chocolate artworks entirely Easter egg-free
Move over Lindt bunnies and hollow eggs. Chocolate can be political, sexy or witty in the hands of a cheeky…
How the art market's million dollar distortion affects you
The global art market rises and falls on multi-million dollar works but 90% of artworks sell for less than $50,000.
Global art market declines as China pulls plug
The US market is booming with the highest ever level of sales but China's decline has punctured the global art…
My life as a plus-size actress
When you are a child actor, chubby means cute. When you hit adolescence, it can be agony. And as an…
Etsy or regretsy?
E-commerce is an attractive option to artists but there are also risks attached to hitching a fine art career to…
Adelaide gets a new private museum
Who was David Roche, and why do we know so little of his world-class collection until now? His private museum…
Can one artist own the rights to black?
Artist Anish Kapoor has been granted the exclusive rights to the "blackest" of black paint-like surface, while an exhibition by…
Do you believe in magic?
The 2016 Adelaide Biennial will convert the most cynical non-believer that object-based materiality commands the museum and contemporary curatorial concerns.
Dja Dja Wurrung barks are Australian art – the British Museum should return them
The British Museum owns a number of priceless pieces of Aboriginal art, and claim they’re the best possible home for…
Scientists now curating Mona
David Walsh hopes to prove that art has an evolution based in biology in a new Mona exhibition On the…