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Betty Kuntiwa Pumani with her major work Antara commissioned for Malatja-malatja at Bundanon, 2025.

Landmark show is a monumental tribute to family, Country and care

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani’s exhibition at the Bundanon Art Museum binds generations.

  • Ksenia Radchenko

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Lin Zhipeng (aka No. 223), Layers, 2018.

Peeking into a desire: Exhibition unveils hidden worlds

The fine line between identification and voyeurism is an underlying theme of White Rabbit Gallery’s new show.

  • Alex Burchmore
Arcangelo Sassolino with In the end, the beginning (2025).

One of the most powerful artworks I’ve seen is on show in Tasmania

My arm hairs stand on end; an uneasy shock settles in. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes.

  • Michaela Boland
Mitch Cairns in 2017 with his Archibald-winning portrait of wife and artist Agatha Gothe-Snape.

John Olsen called this artist’s Archibald win the worst decision he’d seen. But it didn’t stop him

Mitch Cairns’ intimate new solo exhibition at the AGNSW is both playful and introspective.

  • Michaela Boland
Ethel Carrick’s Esquisse en Australie (Sketch in Australia) 1908.

From gardens to beaches: Ethel Carrick’s dazzling Australian sketches

These lively paintings are possibly the first post-impressionist works to be made in Australia.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn
Nusra Latif Qureshi’s “Descriptions of past II” (2001).

This exhibition proves that bigger isn’t better when it comes to art

There are whole worlds in these paintings so often reductively characterised as “miniature”.

  • Neha Kale
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A self-portrait taken in 1979, the year before she died aged 30 of a rare liver disease.

Carol Jerrems died at 30. This exhibition of her work is a revelation

She died young, and that is the least important aspect of this Australian photographer’s art.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn
Ouroboros, a scuplture by artist Lindy Lee

There’s much more to Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros than the $14m price tag

There are far more generous and meaningful ways to discuss the NGA’s shiny new sculpture.

  • Alex Burchmore
The philosophical lamp (La lampe philosophique), 1936

Magritte’s sheer visual magic on show in AGNSW’s summer exhibition

The Belgian surrealist made money during World War II by selling Titian knock-offs to Nazi occupiers.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn
Clayton Blake’s Odyssey.

What to see (and what to skip) at Sculpture by the Sea

There’s 100 artworks from 103 artists on display – if you can get past the golden gorilla testicles.

  • Robert Moran

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