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Friday essay: the art market is failing Australian artists

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageThe marketing of Australian art largely remains a provincial exercise within a global art environment.Image: Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, 2015. AAP Image/NEWZULU/THINKING MEDIA

Despite rhetoric positioning Australia as the clever country and the creative country, Australian artists, particularly in the visual arts, are doing it tough, and things...

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