In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and...
Ömie barkcloth: Pathways of nioge is currently on display on the fourth floor of the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum. Upon entering the...
What has happened in Serisier’s work, with forty+ years of skilful experience under his belt, is that the object/subject divide has diminished. A compelling and...
I like the collegiality that art fairs seem to bring out between competing galleries. I remember at one fair, Andy Dinan from MARS gallery said...
From the poetic, sensual and playful to the fantastical, uncanny, and confronting, Del Kathryn Barton, Vivienne Binns, Pat Brassington, Louisa Chircop, Lynda Draper, Deborah Kelly,...
Ten years ago, the National Gallery of Victoria presented the first iteration of Melbourne Now: a “blockbuster” summer show featuring over 250 works across the...
Around the same time that Daniel Boyd’s exhibition RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) opened at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, marking the multidisciplinary artist’s most comprehensive solo show in...
What a curator is, and what a curator does, has been an evolving discussion over the past century, with the role and reach of curation...
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum...
Floating Land, which l started in 2001, grew out of the European art-in-nature movement, and was based on the French event Le Vent des Forets....
Fox is clearly nourished by her practice, with a love of making that permeates and is influenced by all elements of her life. This can...
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work...
“Flight” is a compelling title for an exhibition. The word suggests transcendence. It calls to mind a kind of ideal: the half-formed notion that we...
Oceans of Air does many things, but all of them revolve around a central imperative: slow down. Tomás Saraceno plunges you into darkness on entering...
Sera Waters’s significance as a leading South Australian artist was firmly cemented in 2022 with two major projects exhibited at the Art Gallery of South...
Bowe’s art may at first recall the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich. We discern mist glazed heavens that offer visual cadences with Friedrich’s Wanderer above...
As a director James Thierrée is a Dadaist, enamoured of nonsense and delighting in the disorientation produced by a profusion of discontinuous images, sounds and...
“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...
Feeling and “Feeling” on Film Erin McFadyen Before the premiere screening of Blaze at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, Del Kathryn Barton stood on the...
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...
The Open Collections Gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) has been operating since 1999. It functions as a discrete space within CMAG for collectors...
The 59th Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, opened this past April with a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The biennale,...
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Winter Masterpieces series has been running since 2004. When looking at the full list of these exhibitions, it is striking...
What differentiates Female Drivers from the recent tide of exhibitions of women’s work – represented in their most block-busting form by the National Gallery of Australia’s...
