Review
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.
- by Alex Burchmore
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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.
- by Joanna Mendelssohn
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.
- by Robert Moran
Hauntingly beautiful, Isaac Julien’s installation at the MCA is a must-see
The extraordinary black-and-white five-screen film installation is unexpectedly healing.
- by Cherine Fahd
Line, space, repeat: The divine madness in this artist’s abstract patterns
At 82, Australian abstract artist Lesley Dumbrell’s retrospective, Thrum, is long overdue.
- by John McDonald
Take a trip through time in this stunning photo exhibition
There’s deep complexity to the deceptively simple photos of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at the MCA.
- by John McDonald
At Australia’s richest landscape prize, art conquered politics
This year’s $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize offered a range of ways of seeing our wildest terrain.
- by John McDonald
Fish, family and friends: Young Archie winners on show
This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.
Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time
The artist’s suite of large-scale landscape paintings will be shown in the place they were made.
- by John McDonald
Opinion
Spectrum
A critic’s pick of the best and worst of the Archibald Prize portraits
A handful of works stand out from a selection that seems to have been made for variety rather than quality.
- by John McDonald
Opinion
Visual art
When was the last time a soap ad gave you spiritual pleasure?
Alphonse Mucha made the bold claim that his posters turned the street in “open-air art exhibitions”.
- by John McDonald
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