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‘There is enormous appetite’: art market revels as more records fall Save Share By anyone’s measure, last week was exceptional for Australia’s secondary art market, with $25.8 million in sales, 16 artist records set and a new high for an internet bid. Not only was a new record set for Arthur Streeton for his romantic vision of Venice, The Grand Canal, which hammered $2.5 million at Deutscher and Hackett in Melbourne, but the painting sold to an internet bidder, establishing yet another record. Deutscher and Hackett charges a 25 per cent buyer’s premium, including GST...

Auction houses beware: art dealers are back Share In Australia, since the late 1980s auction houses have steadily increased their hold on the secondary art market with dealers becoming a shrinking pool. As auction houses transformed from wholesalers to retailers of art, with robust marketing campaigns, full-colour catalogues and auctions as swish social events, dealers strained to compete. Dealers of old such as Joseph Brown, Eva Breuer, Lauraine Diggins and Win Schubert, were powerful forces in the secondary art market, and while some from that era live on, Denis Savill and Nevin Hurst to na...

Rockhampton Art Gallery's Brendon Tohill turns the making of moving boxes into an artform ThuThursday 4 Loading Print text only Cancel With a cutting knife, hot-glue gun and cardboard, Brendon Tohill is crafting special housing for one of 3,000 pieces of artwork in his care. The nationally significant collection, valued at more than $18 million, will soon be loaded into trucks with temperature, humidity and security controls for relocation to its new home in Rockhampton. Most of the renowned collection, established by former Rockhampton mayor Rex Pilbeam and other community leaders in 1976,...

Dutch government shows real leadership We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 16, 2021 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. Dutch government ... Australia’s own scandal along these lines was perpetrated by the Morrison government (the so-called robo-debt scheme) – a scheme to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars from tens of thousands of impoverished Australian citizens. After refuting the obvious for years, a full-scale investigation showed that...

In 1958, when the young Daniel Thomas was first appointed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the word “curator” was not in the Public Service Board lexicon. He felt his official title of “professional assistant” was inaccurate so he signed his letters “curatorial assistant”. In time, the bureaucracy adopted his language and the term is still used to describe the entry level curatorial position for new graduates. The years I spent working for Thomas as a curatorial assistant in the 1970s transformed my understanding of what art can do. His generous pedantry means that even no...