Twenty years on it is salutary to review what was achieved by the Myer Inquiry into the Visual Arts & Crafts sector.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that photographs in this article contain images of a deceased person.
For thirty years, Lisa Roet’s work has been about primates and the environment we share; about global politics, ignorance, hatred, and personal connection.
Michael Taylor's expressionist compositions speak of an extraordinary intensity and energy maintained over a long and prolific oeuvre.
In his new body of works, Drew Pettifer interrogates the beginning of Australia’s queer history.
Erin McFadyen discusses the problematics and progressions of the nude in contemporary painting.
The task facing the sector is to ensure that what emerges is proactive and aspirational rather than a mirror of our fears and apathy.
The work of Ken Unsworth is often labelled as conceptual. His first public solo exhibit saw him pale, bare and pinioned to the wall in a...
Writing after the death of Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol declared that ‘people will be discussing new beauty in Beuys as long as there are people.
Joseph Beuys Cafe is a small Melbourne gallery established by collector Ian George, showcasing his extensive collection of works by Joseph Beuys.
Roger Kemp spoke another language – it was his language – and he tried to explain it to us.
The main goal of a progressive contemporary artist should be to attempt to understand the world they live in – only then can meaningful change...
The genesis of Australia’s feminist art movement can be traced back to the 1970s, as one of its founders, art historian Janine Burke, recounts.
Some of the most compelling criticism on Instagram takes form as memes...
Among the many communities who are rallying together to support the victims of this season’s unprecedented bushfires, the artworld is playing its part.
James Mollison, who was born in 1931 and died Sunday 19 January, made an extraordinary contribution to Australian culture.
John McDonald examines how prices are reaching absurd new heights at the same time as taste in contemporary art is plumbing new depths.
In Issue 46, Judith Pugh discusses Peter Hill's elusive 'Superfictions', which exist in the gap between installation art and literary fiction.
In Issue 47, Ian Were writes a tribute piece about the contagious incandescence and vitality of his late partner, artist Debra Porch (1954–2017).
In Issue 45 Paul McGillick reflects on the colourful life of his brother; the late Tony's McGillick, whose passionate and expressive paintings celebrated the jouissance...
What Indigenous art needs most is a major exhibition in a world art capital, says John McDonald.
Artist Profile travelled to Charlottesville in the United States to speak with Jenni Kemarre Martiniello.
Salvatore Zofrea’s monumental ‘Day Cycle’ is a 122-metre long series depicting the energy of the day in four parts.
Sally Gabori was of the Kaiadilt people who came from Bentinck and Sweers Islands in the South Wellesley Islands, in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
No nation on earth can match Australia’s enduring love of art prizes. It reflects our obsession with sport, allied with the perennial Cultural Cringe.