The Art Life is a

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about the art scene in

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, Australia and was series of

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s broadcast on ABC TV.

The Art Life Blog

Established in 2004 using the

Blogger A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order s ...

online service, The Art Lif

established itself as an independent voice of art criticism in the Australian art and media world. Written as an anonymous blog, the Art Life's irreverent tone, humorous articles, polls and lively reader discussion provide many readers with an introduction to the often obscure Sydney art world, from commercial galleries to artist-run initiatives, art events, personalities and news. The identities of The Art Life writers and editors has been the subject of speculatio

In October 2004,

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journalist Andrew Hornery reported that arts-writer Andrew Frost and artist Simon Barney were widely believed to be responsible. Although both denied authorship of the blog, the subsequent appearance of Frost on television as the "face" of the blog seemed to put an end to that speculation. More recently, some contributors to the blog have been named on posts and have included Bonny Dot Cassidy, Carrie Miller, Marcus Trimble, Margaret Mayhew, Ian Houston and Isobel Johnston.

The Art Life on TV

''The Art Life'' was a three-part TV series that aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation BCin July 2007. The series was an overview of recent Australian art and was organised thematically: Ep 1 ''Out There'' looked at the context of Australian art inspired by the experience of the suburbs, Ep 2 ''Millions of Images'' surveyed the practice of photography and video art in the aftermath of Post Modernism while Ep 3 ''Always Busy Dying'' was an examination of painting in contemporary art. The series was produced by Frank Haines and directed by Brendan Fletcher. The series was written and presented by Andrew Frost. Following the initial Art Life series, the ABC commissioned a two subsequent specials. ''A Year in The Art Life'' was broadcast on 13 November 2007 on the ABC and looked at art news from the year December 2006 through to November 2007. The special was presented by Frost and directed by Brendan Fletcher. ''The Art Life at the Biennale of Sydney 2008'', broadcast on

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on 22 July 2008, was a 27-minute documentary about the bi-annual international art exhibition. The program featured interviews with international artists exhibiting in the

Biennale of Sydney The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and ...

including among others

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Education Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...

George Bures Miller George Bures Miller (born 1960) is a Canadian artist noted for his collaborative works with his wife Janet Cardiff. Miller and Cardiff represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale. They are based in British Columbia, Canada. Solo works Works ...

, Dora Garcia and the curator of the 2008 exhibition

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (born December 2, 1957, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Ridgewood, New Jersey, US) is an Italian-American writer, art historian and exhibition maker. She is the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excelle ...

. Written and presented by Frost, the documentary was directed by Simon von Wolkenstein. In March 2009, ABC1 ormerly the ABCaired ''The Art Life 2''. The three episodes of this second series were linked by an investigation of a single question - what is an artist? Ep 1 ''Starry Starry Night'' looked at the history of the ''idea'' of the artist, from

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...

to contemporary artists; Ep 2 ''Who Made Who'' met and interviewed artists who explore identity as their principal subject; while Ep 3 ''Lust For Life'' was a survey of art with an explicit connection to political issues.

External links

The Art Life website.
* ttp://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/badboy-blogger-now-auntys-favourite/2007/06/07/1181089238764.html ''Bad boy blogger now aunty's favourite'', Clare Morgan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 2007br>''From blog to screen'', Brad Newsome, ''The Age'', 7 June 2007
* ttp://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/wives-less-ordinary/2007/06/14/1181414441387.html ''Wives Less Ordinary'', Ruth Ritchie, 16 June 2007, ''Sydney Morning Herald''br>''What in Creation is so important about art?'', Stephen Matchett, 17 March 2009, ''The Australian''
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