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 ...

It’s rare for an art dealer to be given star billing in a museum exhibition but Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) was not just any art dealer - he was the man who took a bunch of scorned and despised ...

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 ...

Last week, my friend, Liz Hobday, who works for AAP, pointed out a story she’d written about a commercial gallery in Melbourne selling work by a mysterious French artist called Jean Paul Mangin. To ...

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 ...