For over 60 years, Daniel Thomas has shaped and extended our understanding of Australian art. Sometimes cheeky, always erudite, Thomas's writings are collected in a new book.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
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Art historians argue that the life of the artist should be viewed independently of their art but, for most Aboriginal artists, art is a cultural expression that encompasses their lives.
Fairfax's plans to reduce arts coverage as part of 125 jobs to go put Australia's cultural enterprise in jeopardy.
The Marxist philosopher, art critic and novelist popularised complex ideas and helped bring art into the mainstream.
In 1955 two plays – The Torrents and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – burst into Australian theatre. Funny and tragic in deeply Australian ways, they marked a new horizon of creative possibility.
Grumpy curmudgeons, ex-artists writing about friends ... art critics here rarely help viewers understand the challenges of new work.
Because a photograph came from a machine – not a human hand – many were not entirely sure if it could be called art.
Art raises a lot of questions. That’s what it does. If an art work in a gallery or a news story has made you ask “what the …?”, it has already started to do its job. But for many who are not familiar with…
Speaking with: Emily Nussbaum.
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Over the past decade we have witnessed the rise and rise of long form television – from The Sopranos to The Wire, Game of Thrones to Orange Is the New Black – and no one has been watching this transformation…
I am currently in San Francisco to attend the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). It’s the biggest event in the games industry, depending on what measuring stick you use. E3 in Los Angeles is the…
The contemporary art critic cannot say with certainty whether something is good or bad. What good criticism does today is to help the public “see” the artwork. It does not explain and close down meaning…
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Honorary associate, Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney
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Reader, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State
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Professor of Art Theory and Fine Art, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Freelance art writer and PhD candidate, The University of Queensland
