HSC Visual Arts - Case Study 3. Artworld Agencies including Case Study "Curatorial Instincts": Roles within the Art and Gallery sector

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, but opens the artwork up.

Ever since the mid-1990s when the Internet took up residence in our collective homes, hearts, neurons and nervous systems, it has been mooted and bruited that art criticism is in crisis.

For an Australian to win a Pulitzer prize is remarkable. For that prize to be for art criticism confounds many perceptions of Australia's stereotypes.

Art critic - Jed Perl

Clement Greenberg : A life by Florence Rubenfield - this article reviews the book

An essay is presented that is adapted from the book "The Perpetual Guest," by Barry Schwabsky. Topics discussed include the role of art critics, the views of artist Marcel Duchamp on the importan...

Career Centre summary of the role

THE prominent Aboriginal art curator Hetti Perkins has become an artist-in-residence at Bangarra Dance Theatre and will be involved in promoting indigenous culture across the arts, civic life and beyond.

TONY Ellwood's declared emphasis on contemporary art at the National Gallery of Victoria continues apace.