The Wynne controversy
Quadrant magazine art editor Patricia Anderson discusses the controversy that has erupted around the awarding of this year’s Wynne Prize to Sam Leach.
"The ancient Romans paid the ancient Greeks the ultimate compliment of copying Greek marble statuary down to the last toenail and nipple."
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Sam Leach, "Proposal for landscaped Cosmos"
Illustration courtesy
Art Gallery of NSW
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