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More than 50 longstanding members of the local arts sector have signed a strongly worded letter to Premier Peter Malinauskas, warning that South Australia risks being viewed as ‘the most backward of Australian states’ unless it takes urgent action to increase funding and strategic support for artists and arts organisations.
Clarice Beckett: Australian artist's place in global art history cemented in exhibition By Hannah Reich for The Art Show © Provided by ABC NEWS The Art Gallery of South Australia's Clarice Beckett exhibition positions Beckett as an international master of modernism. (Supplied: AGSA/Saul Steed) Imagine if shortly after Mark Rothko's death, someone who thought they knew better decided to destroy his iconic paintings. When Australian artist Clarice Beckett died at 48 years of age in 1935, her father burnt a number of her paintings — works that the Art Gallery of South Aus...