REVIEW | Abattoir Blues, Ron Mueck’s Sculpted Humanity
Ron Mueck’s shockingly alive sculptures hit us at many points along the pathway from birth to death. But it’s more than just mortal decay that concerns him. Mueck is interested in our spiritual life, the spark inside that won’t say die. It’s this soulfulness that drives his work into a struggle zone to understand who and […]
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REVIEW: Thomas Demand: The Object Lesson
Kaldor Public Art Project 38 is in the Naala Badu building (the term for “seeing waters” in the Gadigal language). Demand, as it happens, has an indirect affiliation with Naala Badu. Over the years, he conducted research visits to Tokyo at SANAA, the distinguished architectural firm led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, responsible for […]
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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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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.
