Tag: Melbourne Art Fair

News | The NotFair, Spring 1883 to continue in the absence of the Melbourne Art fair

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The Board of NotFair has confirmed that the 2016 NotFair will go ahead despite last week’s cancellation of the Melbourne Art Fair. The NotFair was begun in 2010 by artists Sam Leach and Tony Lloyd, with writer and curator Ashley Crawford. The event has always been independent of the main fair, giving artists and visitors a subversive alternative to the existing art fair model. It has always exhibited emerging, unrepresented and independent artists. This year it will go ahead without its establishment counterpart. Chairman of NotFair, The Hon. Paul Guest OAM QC is now expecting even more interest in the artist-focused event and said: “Of course…

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Recent News from Art and Art History | Monday 22nd February 2016

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A forged catalogue that Drewe swapped with an original 1950s catalogue in the National Art Library. The forgery lists three Giacomettis, including forgeries by Myatt, one of which is illustrated. NAL: 38041010206480 © Victoria & Albert Museum, London

A fascinating blog from the V&A on the issues about conserving John Drewe’s fraudulent exhibition catalogues, which were forged and then planted in the National Art Library to create provenance’s for forged works of art. “How should we treat these fraudulent documents? Now they are in our collections and requested for exhibition are they artefacts in their own right? … As I looked at the catalogues with our lovely book conservators it dawned on us that if we were to be true to the history of the objects then we couldn’t actually do any work on them. The potentially damaging rusty staples,…

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