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REVIEW: Dangerously Modern | Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940

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 Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) featuring fifty Australian women artists who left for Europe to travel and study art in the heady years of modernism, from 1890 to 1940. […]

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REVIEW: Yolngu Power, the art of Yirrkala

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 Gallery of New South Wales’s Crossing Country that some twenty years ago traced a nearly 100-year history of west Arnhem Land art. This historical format pushes against the usual focus […]

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Kandinsky

So reads a wall text at the entrance to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Kandinsky, serving as a reminder that the artist’s aspiration towards the spiritual in painting was not solely a matter of self-realisation, but reflected a monumental ambition to shape the future of art. Eighty years after Kandinsky’s death, the world […]

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Sydney Syntheses

In Sydney during December, a solo show in one of the city’s longest-established commercial galleries and a group exhibition in an artist-run space approached the matter of synthesis from utterly different starting points. Their outcomes, not easily reconciled, point to the breadth of practice that goes on in this city, each tribe living virtually unbeknown […]

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National Identity in The National

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 of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia). The National’s five curators: Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley, Freja Carmichael, Jane Devery, Beatrice Gralton and Emily Rolfe offer a selection of works in line with […]

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The National 4: Australian Art Now

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National  exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current events, and home. Two of these are: Hoda Afshar’s confrontational selection of photographs, Aura; a timeline of three years, 2020-2023, consisting of the social and political turmoil that has dominated […]

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The finalists of the 2014 Archibald Prize

One of most eagerly anticipated prizes has again returned to excite audiences and critics alike.

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