Art
Dionne Warwick: ‘Well, first of all, what’s a Doja Cat?’
There’s no denying the singer is a cultural icon – now 84, the star will soon return to Australia for a series of concerts.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Latest
The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece
Cast off by the Nazis but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor – made just before van Gogh’s suicide – has not been seen in 34 years.
- by Michael Forsythe, Graham Bowley and Elisabetta Povoledo
Horror flicks were once barely a rung above porn: that’s all changed
Saw writer Leigh Whannell is set to discuss the new-found appeal of horror at a five-day festival dubbed ‘Sundance at Surfers’.
- by Garry Maddox
‘Gauntlet moment’: Major Sydney art gallery introduces $20 admission fees
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s new entry fee will send shockwaves through the arts sector.
- by Linda Morris
Opinion
Workplace disputes
I’m the pianist the MSO tried to silence. Now it wants to silence all artists
According to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, I am not an employee or a contractor. Yet it maintains it can dictate what I can and cannot say.
- by Jayson Gillham
Exclusive
Arts
Who’s in, who’s out as Labor figures head cultural leadership shake-up
ALP veterans head a list of 10 new prestigious appointments to the state’s leading galleries and museums.
- by Linda Morris
Exclusive
Spectrum
She died a ‘housewife’, now Ethel Carrick breaks art auction records
From the streets of Paris to the beaches of Australia, Ethel Carrick was ahead of her time.
- by Linda Morris
Major galleries reveal their 2025 blockbusters – with big surprises in store
The Art Gallery of NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art have unveiled their shows for 2025, and there is not an Impressionist master among them. Here are the best shows.
- by Linda Morris
Crypto executive eats banana artwork bought for $9.6 million, says it tasted ‘quite good’
Chinese-born Justin Sun peeled off the duct tape and enjoyed the banana in a press conference held in the ritzy Peninsula Hong Kong hotel.
- by Kanis Leung
Dicey Topics
Good Weekend
‘It’s a mess’: Artist Julie Mehretu on art, sex and capitalism
The record-breaking Ethiopian-American artist on the role of markets in “making it”, creating works with big brands – and the advice she’d give her younger self.
- by Benjamin Law
Shock for fruit vendor who sold $9 million banana for 25 cents
When Shah Alam, who works on a fruit stand in front of Sotheby’s in Manhattan, learnt a cheap piece of fruit he sold had become part of an absurdist artwork that went for millions in the auction house, he began to cry.
- by Sarah Maslin Nir
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