It's Been A Big Week In Art ... with Jim Pavlidis

In the not too distant past, the days following the end of an AFL season were filled with trepidation if you were an administrator, because at any moment you could receive that dreaded message about players behaving badly.

In recent years the opposite has become true. The days before the first round are now filled with dread for players and footy fans, worried by HQ’s need to be in the news all year round.

Last week started sensibly with Essendon’s Josh Green being fined for staging.

While still a dirty word here, diving is not uncommon in Europe, and some, like the artist David Hockney, consider it a worthy artistic pursuit.

By mid-week, however, management was displaying relevance deprivation by raising concerns about ‘fake news’ and social media.

But on Friday, the AFL hit a new low in senseless tinkering by revealing the much-loved Fable Singers club songs are to be re-recorded to give them a modern flavour.