Portrait of a friend
It is true to say that memories of the departed become much more vivid when they are gone – more…
Marking time
Ghosts and Christmases past
Gary Garrels
Let me take you down the strange rabbit hole of contemporary art museum culture. The senior curator of painting and…
Agnes Wales
Something is going on with Agnes Wales. Is it possible that the current board of trustees of the Art Gallery…
Arcadian repose
A friend of mine, a bit of a watermelon really like most of the cultural milieu, asked me why I…
American road trip
Like a lot of Australians I look at what is happening in America with sad bemusement if not alarm. Over…
Australian arts
For artists, writers and creative people in general the isolationist directives make very little difference. As usual, we go about…
Australian notes
Walking above the waters If you dawdle in the interior of Australia there is a fair chance that you will…
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Vale Edmund Capon
It is a chilly December evening in London, and on the floor of this hospital the windows are an opaque…
Sino diary
In 1800, it could take at least 3 or more months, depending on the winds, to sail in a damp,…
Artist’s Notebook
When old ‘wobble board’ Rolf was sent up to the big house I felt a sense of relief not because…
Australian diary
It is not often that I feel sorry for a politician however Bill Leak’s portrait of Bill Shorten as a…
Australian diary
It is not often that I feel sorry for a politician however Bill Leak’s portrait of Bill Shorten as a…
