Kevin Murray

To start with a different biography: R.M. Kessing’s Elota’s Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man (UQP, 1978) will tell you the following tale. In the Kwaio settlement on the Solomon Islands lived a man called ‘Elota. Through careful cumulative earning, and an expanding set of enterprises (breeding pigs, growing taro, making bracelets and anklets), as well as cutting costs ... (read more)

Edward Colless is the ‘don’ of the art world – in fact, he is Juan, Quixote, and Giovanni all woven together. The Error of My Ways is his ‘mille e tre’ of theoretical affairs – essays and articles that have infected an otherwise sterile art scene with a flame of desire. The catalogue essay is a sadly neglected craft. Every week, art galleries commission hundreds of short essays to acc ... (read more)