Drawing attention to the wrong thing
May 27, 2024
A painting has been in the news recently.
Gina Reinhart, one of Australia’s wealthiest people, has petitioned the National Gallery of Australia to have the work removed.
Perversely, her request has generated so much media attention that many more people have seen the Vincent Namatjira painting than would have otherwise.
Barbra Streisand knows this all too well.
In 2003 she took legal action to remove an aerial image of her property from the twelve thousand other properties on...
