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.

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 ...

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 essay was written for Harding family who spent years amassing a great collection of Australian art, including the most extensive holdings of work by Robert Klippel, David Rankin, John Firth-Smith ...