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Sep 14 2024
13 mins
Don’t know much
about art…
about art…
Every year around this time the Archibald Prize and its preliminaries remind the tax-paying public of the gulf between state-sponsored ‘art’ and the real thing. This year’s lesson is particularly sharp.
Mark Powell on the Archibald’s
banishment of beauty
Above, a detail of Johannes Leak’s portrait of Jacinta Price, which can be viewed in its entirety here. It failed to make the finalists’ list, which is hardly surprising. Being the son of Bill Leak and the The Australian‘s resident cartoonist is enough to get Luvviedom offside before the first brush stroke contacts canvas.
Below, Victoria Atkinson‘s effort, which vaulted into the final round — an achievement expressing the judges’ view that it is one of the 50 best portraits painted in Australia over the past 12 months. The image, by the way, is of federal Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who could sue were he so inclined.
Tom Wolfe understood:
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Sep 02 2024
0 mins
The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
Aug 31 2024
3 mins
How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.
Aug 30 2024
4 mins
