Archive for February, 2009

Do you ever feel that there is a twilight world full of people who have the Midas touch, who can turn any crazy idea into a money making machine – people who operate and think so differently to yourself as they get about in the jet set gilt clad world, that they may as well be from another planet?  I’ve peered into this world as they conjure up riches out of thin air (or from absolute crappy ideas), and I just scratch my head and wonder how they manage it.

On a recent visit to the Queensland Art Gallery, as I gazed at the exhibits the thought often entered my head – how the hell did this crap get chosen to hang on the walls in here, and more to the point, how did the ‘artists’ manage to wangle thousands of dollars out of the museum funds for it.  Case in point – this ‘painting’ by John Olsen, painted in 1961 entitled ‘Journey into the you beaut country no. 2′.
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