Visiting Venice in late June, once the champagne flutes have emptied and the holders of “professional” badges have flown home, offers a different kind of...
The curator Con Gerakaris’s considered arrangement of diverse works conjures the distinctive cultural and physical topographies of Asia. Entering A Tear in the Fabric, the...
Co-curators and longtime friends Helen Hyatt-Johnston, Brad Buckley, and Noel Thurgate and Gallery Curator Lizzy Galloway, selected the Buddha from Harpur’s extensive collection of Ch’an...
William Kentridge’s Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot opens with the artist pacing back and forth against the backdrop of his studio, with remnants of a sketch...
To commemorate fifty years since the invasion, Savvas travelled to Cyprus to video her walk from her mother’s home in Kaimakli, Nicosia, to her father’s...
National museums serve as custodians of collective memory. They preserve, interpret, and present stories that shape a nation’s cultural identity. The National Museum of Australia...
The two-and-a half-kilogram catalogue for the Dangerously Modern exhibition, set inside its pink, gossamer carry bag, is the perfect metaphor for this exhibition at the...
As an Italian immigrant, who came to Australia as a young boy, Zofrea’s understanding and connection with the Australian landscape has been a lifelong journey....
The Wama Foundation has nurtured significant momentum for its ambitious NCEA project over the past decade. In 2015 the foundation engaged Jan van Schaik, co-founder...
Through a complex and nuanced investigation of movement and time, the photographic work of U.S. still-and-moving image artist Sam Contis, seductively unfolds across distinct landscapes....
Presenting an eighty-year art history of sixteen east Arnhem Land Yolngu clans represented by the Yirrkala Art Centre Buku Larrnggay Mulka, it recalls the Art...
Divided into ten thematic sections, the curatorial brief (according to the NGV’s online publicity) is to place “emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the...
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre and Ada Bird Petyarre lead with major paintings that were revolutionary at the time. They are supported by...
A stone I died and rose again; A plant I died and rose an animal; I died an animal and was born a man. Why...
OLSEN Gallery is one of fifteen galleries presenting works in Photo Sydney, with selected works from George Byrne’s 2024 series Synthetica. In Byrne’s photography, things...
The Stülerbau West, the historical part of Museum Berggruen in Berlin, has been undergoing a substantial renovation since autumn 2022. A selection from the Berggruen...
MIRRORSCAPE, by French artist Théo Mercier, is the first presentation of his work in Australia. MIRRORSCAPE is a sculpture delicately and masterly carved from tonnes...
Within a mix of translucent paintings, etchings and lithographs, “The Queen of Jilamara” (as Kantilla was affectionately known), is accompanied by Taracarijimo Freda Warlapinni’s quivering...
Driving into the imposing landscape of Bundanon’s arts precinct, visitors are immediately enveloped in the environment. Dramatic cliffs abound and a serpentine river that features...
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is perhaps best known for her intimate self-portraits exploring pain, love, and loss, replete with potent symbolism and social commentary. She gained...
O’Doherty captures the zeitgeist in a distilled format and direct way that is uniquely his own. Understated in scale, his prints, paintings and drawings are...
I approached the exhibition Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World with caution, thinking it might be a problematic and questionable foray into collaborative exchange....
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....
It is one of the peculiarities of the art of painting that all the strength and suppleness of movement the painter’s body can bring to...
Adam Douglas Hill (AKA Blak Douglas) is an attention-seeking artist. Seemingly on the fringes of the art world but also something of a celebrity whose...
