There was a time when going to the National Gallery in Canberra to see Jackson Pollock’s abstract painting Blue Poles was a thing. The institution’s 1973 acquisition of the famously expensive work of art was a crime against taxpayers/a point of national pride, depending on your viewpoint… And now the gallery is set to unveil an animatronic installation by US artist Jordan Wolfson titled Body Sculpture that’s been compared to Blue Poles when it comes to the big bucks. Setting us back a cool $6.7 million, it looks like a robot with moving arms – but for art connoisseurs, Wolfson says its movement “elicits the viewer to become activated in their bodies and therefore present”. Considered not safe for under 15yos due to its “mature themes”, it’s unlikely to bring in bus-loads of kids. Maybe the National Portrait Gallery’s new “psychedelic” portrait of Aussie cook/icon Maggie Beer is more their speed…