Nathan Maynard wants non-Indigenous Australians to ask themselves an awkward question.

i love stories about forgers and forged art works and people who buy them because they want to believe that they are real.

This is great, even if you don't like urine.

No one in Didion’s circle knew the mysterious painting’s origin.

Doris Salcedo

This obituary of an ‘acclaimed Sixties abstract painter who fell into almost complete obscurity only to be rediscovered by an art consultant in 2002’, takes a couple of quite unexpected turns, not the least of which is : “While worldly in some respects, his understanding of the machinations of the contemporary art world could be rather naive, a result of working in isolation for much of his career. Financially this was not a problem because by then he had become a successful manufacturer of teddy bears.”

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... and a bad writer. But it’s still worth reading because it's so ... ah well read it. Or not. 24 Jul 2022

woa! who said art is dead?

A dot is a dot is a dot. Hasn't he read The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? archived 4 Jul 2022

Wim T. Schippers is 80

ze willen saai maken.

Tehching Hsieh's one year performances required some serious commitment. My personal favourite is No Art Piece 1986 where he abstained from making or looking at any art for one year.

Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands.

“Let others dollar up their art. Mine was unpriceable. It was to be bestowed.”

Still in recovery from cancer, the artist has moved home with plans to open an art school, launch a catering college, and even spruce up the streets. She talks about her new sense of freedom – and the pain that infused her latest devastating nudes

Zo. Dus Hermann Nitsch is ook dood. Eigenlijk had zijn lichaam opengesperd op een rek vastgebonden moeten worden. Dan had het, met enkele naakte vrouwen en mannen, een berg broden en vissen, druiven en tomaten, kilo’s ingewanden en een paar honderd liter bloed nog één laatste ‘performance’ op kunnen leveren en kregen de dieren uiteindelijk toch hun revanche maar het heeft helaas niet zo mogen zijn.

The French are unequalled masters of defacing election posters by selectively tearing away parts of the paper, a technique known as decollage.

Jenny Holzer from Inflammatory Essays 1979-1982

katrien de blauwer

He is chagrined that healing has become a commodity and is committed to offering his practices for free.

Kunstproject: Kunstenaar Vibeke Mascini voerde actie om het woord ‘doodsreutel’ terug in de Dikke Van Dale te krijgen. En slaagde, zag Thomas van Huut.

No Art: een jaar lang verbood hij zichzelf om naar kunst te kijken, erover te praten, schrijven of lezen. Sinds het jaar 2000 is hij naar eigen zeggen met pensioen.

150 jaar Mondriaan: Piet Mondriaan en Kazimir Malevitsj waren beiden pioniers in geometrische schilderkunst. Maar hun wereldbeeld verschilde compleet.