Renowned artworks go under the hammer (Griffith Area News)

IN GRIFFITH art circles, this was akin to the National Gallery having a fire sale in Banna Avenue.

Boom or bust in book industry (The Australian)

AMID the worst economic crisis in decades, publishing executives are still making what many see as big gambles on new manuscripts.

Buyers' market in the galleries (The Australian)

THE downturn has sent the art boom into reverse as fewer sellers find an acceptable price but it's not all gloom.

Thanks, Andrew – this (New Matilda)

Thanks, Andrew – this article is fascinating for the answer Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gave about the Bienniales, the "1500 jet-setters" for whom these things are run (in the view of those who run them). A whole slew of questions and observations pop out of that surprise packet and the comments that follow. I don’t doubt that what Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev says is true. But I don’t think ...

Censorship debate fires up arts in 2008 (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)

The story around Bill Henson and his controversial nude photographs of pre-pubescent children was undoubtedly the arts story of the year. It had it all: police raids on an art gallery, moral outrage, the censorship debate, the artist and his models in hiding, a high school principal investigated and a denouncement from the new Prime Minister that the photographs were "revolting".

Michael Jackson so skint he auctions Neverland gates (Daily Mirror)

Superstar Michael Jackson is so strapped for cash he is selling the gates of Neverland.