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Daily Review is proud to present actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. In Episode Two he talks to the poet Peter Bakowski. To listen, click this link: Making Art: Episode Two Peter Bakowski (also available on iTunes). *** When people ask what I
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Whenever a budget is handed down, I, like any self-respecting Australian artist, immediately check to see how much of our country’s investment in its arts and culture has been appropriated to make way for corporate tax cuts. By recent standards, this latest Federal budget is a good one. We only lost $89 million, and thankfully
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Daily Review is thrilled to present actor Neil Pigot’s new series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. To listen to the first interview – with Archibald Prize winning painter Lewis Miller (pictured in the self-portrait above) – click this link: Making Art: Episode One ‘Lewis Miller’ (also
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I have a friend who has a joke that I love: “If our Agriculture Ministers knew as little about producing food as our Arts Ministers know about producing art, then we’d all starve to death”. I was thinking of this last week when the Victorian Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley took a massive, unexpected
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Over the course of the 20th century and into our current one, empirical advances have been made in the way we use words to sell goods and services. The result is that the impressionistic rhetoric of promotion has developed significant currency, so much so that ad speak has become in many ways the language of
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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. Democracy is a not just a wonderfully robust concept, it is a delightfully simple one. To be called a modern democracy, all a country needs
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The ABC has been struck again by another round of cuts. Despite the fact that another 200 jobs will go and a few more programs will be axed, the management has reassured us that there will actually be more content better targeted to the needs of “customers”. For those of you that aren’t sure how to decipher
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In a week when there’s been a surge of announcements and name calling from state and federal leaders on how to deal with the power crisis in South Australia and looming supply problems on the east coast, Neil Pigot tells it like it is. ***
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Neil Pigot presents SpeakLiberal2Me:
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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art. Then life will find its very existence from the art – Fyodor Dostoevsky They say a lot of things about art, some of it rather uncomplimentary. They say an awful lot about artists too, much of which is unprintable. But there are two phrases so
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