Beuys Alive
In Germany alone, the home of Beuys, the anniversary is being celebrated with exhibitions in twenty-eight locations. Worldwide, there are exhibitions across all continents including Australia, Japan, the United States, and numerous European countries. Especially in the Rhineland, and more precisely on the Lower Rhine, where the artist spent most of his life, the artist […]
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The National 2021: New Australian Art
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine artists, collectives and collaborative ventures. It offers a resonant and aware collection of ideas, and significantly, now has the stellar commitment from its three supporting institutions to continue beyond this, […]
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Elizabeth Ann MacGregor OBE
Your first public appearance as Director of the MCA was to launch an exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 1999. You spoke about making contemporary art accessible. Looking back, what has Western Sydney meant for the MCA? There’s an untold story about how Western Sydney saved the MCA! In those days, when the Museum […]
Primavera 2019
‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ at the MCA showcases Australia’s next generation of up-and-coming artists aged thirty-five and younger.
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The National: New Australian Art
Three of Sydney’s major public art institutions showcase a multivalent multitude of new Australian art.
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Janet Laurence
For over three decades Janet Laurence has been engaging with humanity’s experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world.
Caroline Garcia
The work of Caroline Garcia explores the shifting territory between intersectional feminism, diasporic politics and pop culture through a cinematic lens.
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Primavera 2018
Congratulations to this year’s artists selected to take part in the 27th annual ‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA).
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The 21st Biennale of Sydney
The 21st Biennale of Sydney unites the work of seventy artists and art collectives from six continents.
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Hilarie Mais
In Issue 40 Hilarie Mais spoke with Kon Gouriotis about her non-representational vocabulary.
Chuck Close | Prints and Process
Our first international artist to grace the cover, we embark on a retrospect of the eminent Chuck Close and his impact on portraiture.
A fresh face for the Cultural Ambassador of Western Sydney
The new cultural Ambassador for Western Sydney is Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of the MCA.
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South of no North
South of no North is a modest evocation of everyday life, curated by Glenn Barkley, and featuring artists Noel McKenna, Laurence Aberhart and William Eggleston, drawing on themes of place and purpose.
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The MCA's new Mordant Wing
In celebration of the MCA’s new wing, we thought it only fitting to join the discussion by imparting our thoughts – both praises and criticisms – on the space itself and the exciting new work housed within it. Let us first however, place the debate within its rightful historical and cultural context.
Judith Wright in the 18th BOS: All Our Relations
The Biennale of Sydney has announced that Judith Wright will feature in this year’s exhibition ‘All Our Relations’ on Cockatoo Island. Wright will present a newly commissioned installation, The Journey, as well as three video works entitled The Stager (2008), The Gift (2008) and Desire (2010). Previously a dancer with the Australian ballet, Wright’s art reflects […]
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