ESSAY I The Architecture of unconcealment: exploring Mona’s new wing
Mona reveals itself slowly. Unlike classical museum architecture that conveys authority through monumental facades and grand, towering entranceways, visitors enter the Nonda Katsalidis-designed building through a one-storey mirrored entrance, literally reflecting its human scale and obscuring the magnitude of the floor space below. Subsequent extensions to Mona’s original 2011 layout—Pharos and Siloam—complicated the structure through […]
Namedropping
Namedropping does not mean anything if you do not recognise the reference. It means nothing. Yes, of course, you could look it up if you wanted to. Or be educated by the app that tells you how to look at the works. But I did not. I just looked and hoped I’d get overwhelmed and […]
Toby Ziegler
The paintings, sculptures and films by British artist Toby Ziegler excavate the various fissures that exist between formal and conceptual thresholds.
KALDOR and MONA present Marina Abramović
This morning John Kaldor and David Walsh announced their upcoming collaboration with international performance artist Marina Abramović.

