Critics, cancellation and cleanskin wine: the Australian novels satirising the art world

New books from Bri Lee and Liam Pieper reach into the frictions and follies of the art industry. But are they fact or fantasy?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe art world can be a space of wonder, beauty, bravery, connection and community. As an art critic and art historian, I’ve spent the past decade swimming in these waters. But it can also feel like a badly written joke: shaped by the 1%, populated by the shrinking middle classes, picketed by anarchists and run by unpaid int