A gift that keeps on giving
The collection of 154 pieces of art given by Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown to the National Gallery of Victoria reveals a taste that was open and even eclectic.
The collection of 154 pieces of art given by Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown to the National Gallery of Victoria reveals a taste that was open and even eclectic.
The Australian Ballet is breaking new ground with Oscar, a ballet about the flamboyant life and romantic loves of Oscar Wilde.
For all his personal and creative faults, artist Paul Gauguin remains a focus of attention.
Mystery surrounds the transformation of Mervyn Napier Waller from painter of seductive nudes to leading religious artist.
A new Vernon Ah Kee mural celebrates Brisbane writers as it wraps around independent bookstore Avid Reader.
Grace Crowley seems to have drawn by Ralph Balson into genre so incompatible with her sensibility that it extinguished her inspiration.
This important survey of the French post-impressionist’s work is mercifully free of irrelevant ideological posturing.
After 36 years, Gail Wiltshire is offering her theatre, and its legacy, to the people – much to the frustration of developers.
Carl Sagan, the great American astronomer, was fond of pointing out that our bodies are “made of star-stuff”. It’s literally true.
An artist who was one of Australia’s last traditional hunter-gatherers has won the $100,000 Telstra Art Award, the nation’s most prestigious prize for Indigenous artists.
The festival’s eclectic program this year will involve almost 150 artists who draw on everything from deepfake technology to 3D NASA photographs and the primal power of fire.
The National Gallery of Australia’s Gauguin blockbuster is the first exhibition to focus on the French master’s Oceania period.
Melbourne’s Rising festival of art, music and performance has plenty to amuse and provoke.
It’s time to weight fines on gallery vandals with the significance of their targets.
One art competition’s reject turned into another’s treasure for veteran painter Noel McKenna – with a slight rework to claim the top gong.
Built like a spaceship, an ancient symbol of a self-consuming snake lands on the lawns of the National Gallery, and to Lindy Lee, the career-defining masterpiece is simply ‘magical’.
As the NSW Art Gallery prepares to unveil the largest collection of Alphonse Mucha’s work seen in Australia, we delve into the illustrations that created a blueprint for modern poster art, hidden in the wake of Nazi Occupation and Communist rule.
Artist Nicholas Mangan’s new exhibition A World Undone at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia explores a time before consciousness and life itself.
More than 500 artefacts from the British Museum will go on show at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday aimed at a ‘new generation’ and the curator is still making discoveries.
Her chart-topping music career was cruelly cut short but a decade after she stopped performing this pop star has carved out a new creative life – one that changes lives.
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