Paul McGillick has brought together much fascinating, and often relatively unfamiliar material in what is effectively the first study of the nude in Australian art....
Being famous can be a fleeting thing. Time moves on. Values change. What once held a certain status, like being crowned Miss Australia, loses its...
Introducing this revised 2024 edition of The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa, Reg explains with a characteristically wry twist, that Hypersonic Realism is a new art...
University museums are a significant and diverse sector within the broader museum community, embracing visual arts, natural history, ethnography, science and technology, social history, medicine,...
“She looks at herself, again and again. She’s in London or Paris or Helsinki or Sydney. She’s in a village by the sea or a...
I’ve overheard your theory, “Nostalgia’s for geeks” I guess sir, if you say so, some of us just like to read One second I’m a...
When the Australian colonies began to build their first museums – inaugurated by what is now known as The Lady Franklin Museum at the foot...
Antoinette LaFarge’s Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation is a thought-provoking analysis into the realms of fictive art. LaFarge uses “parafact” for fiction...
It’s 1996 and Fiona McGregor has been away for “almost a year.” She’s back in Sydney, sitting in the audience at Club 77 and watching...
Big. Bigger. Biggest. I remember learning by rote these comparative adjectives back in primary school in Glasgow in the 1960s. Everything about the NGV Triennial...
When the great Canadian-born painter Philip Guston’s daughter Musa Mayer wrote a compelling biography Night Studio (1988) about the problems of having a never-around workaholic...
Ang’s new photobook will be released as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria....
Ann Finnegan reviews the book 'Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics'.
Judith White’s account of Michael Brand’s management of the AGNSW exemplifies the effect of neo-liberalism on a scholarly institution.
What was initially proposed to be an essay of 3000 words has developed into a densely rich monograph of nearly 400 pages, entitled The Samstag...
You don’t have to be an avid follower of Aboriginal art when it comes to the fascinating pull of Ngarra and his life, as told...
Modern Love has nothing of the “lifestyle” genre about it.
In Joshua Yeldham's first work of literature, stories of devotion interweave with visual musings to result in a compelling journal.
An in-depth historical account of man’s challenging relationship with the wilderness in the attempt to illustrate, capture and evoke its true nature.
Steal Like an Artist is a delightful little compendium of motivational ideas and mantras that will get you thinking about your art and its process...
There wouldn’t be many of Australia’s great artists in the last 35 years to whom Lucio hasn’t served an anti pasti plate at his establishment.
Why, in this era, anyone would set out to publish a hard copy publication about an artist, let alone a young artist, when so much...
Most of us know the bones of the story of Albert Namatjira. It is one of those iconic tales, which, in the manner of Chinese...
Published alongside Robinson’s latest exhibition, this catalogue is an insightful survey of the full circle of the artist’s early career until now.
Anne Ferran: Shadow Land is an insightful and evocative look at the career of Anne Feran, spanning over 30 years.
