The day Australian literature changed forever
Nominated six times and winning the Nobel Prize in the era of Beckett, Tolkien, Golding, Miller and Wilder, Patrick White is widely considered our greatest ever writer. Can an Australian win again?
Visual Arts
AI art: better than the real thing?
The consequences of AI for art and literature are enormous but the technology still has its limitations.
Comedian’s death ‘tears hole in heart of our community’
The New Zealand comic and writer died in Sydney after a ‘short illness’.
Shark danger for nude project
Thousands of Queenslanders are set to strip down and possibly enter the Brisbane city river for a nude project but has experts concerned.
Banksy’s Venice mural awash with controversy
A Banksy mural in Venice which is disappearing due to saltwater erosion has triggered a row between a minister seeking to save it and artists who say it should be allowed to fade.
Teaching in Australia has become a refuge for the least able
Allowing students with appallingly low ATARs into the teaching profession has helped to undermine their social standing.
Snapshots of a regional success story
A photographic event like few other: Ballarat Foto Bienniale is leading the way for the presentation of art in Australia
Heart of the Nation: Rozelle 2039
You may look at this image from the Australian Life exhibition and wonder what on Earth is going on. Can you figure it out?
‘They felt sorry for me … I was worried I’d f..k up a good idea’
When Pip Williams told people she was writing a novel about the dictionary, people looked at her in pity. Now her bestselling book is premiering on stage and being made into a TV series.
This show is so good, you can tell art elites weren’t involved
This photography exhibition is almost shocking to witness – and in stark contrast to our ludicrous art prizes, where judges are rarely chosen for their competence.
Tasmania’s Dark Mofo cancelled for 2024
The decision comes as organisers grapple with escalating financial difficulties, prompting newly appointed artistic director Chris Twite to declare a one-year ‘period of renewal’.
Ancient Egyptian artefacts headed for Australian shores
The National Gallery of Victoria will showcase the wonders of the ancient Egypt and the almighty pharaoh in an exclusive exhibition set to open in 2024.
Snubbed: Art world exile is finally having her moment
Her parents suicided before her most significant exhibition opened. Then she lost feeling in her hands and feet. Is Annemieke Mein’s art imitating life?
Time to bring back the old-fashioned collector
The old art collector had a house filled with paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Unlike today’s equivalent, who buys ‘investments’, this collector was driven by love and an appreciation of art.
Sexy comedy is back: take that, wowsers
Ribald films disappeared from our screens for a while, but now they’re back with a fresh twist appealing to modern sensitivities around nudity.
Transcending earth to capture soul
Japan has some of the world’s most modern cities, yet its heart still belongs to the countryside and to the mountains.
Father’s legacy, nature’s wonder keep Olsen in the picture
The artist explains how painting will always be the thread that connects her with her father the late great design luminary John Olsen.
The high life
Sean Scott got a taste for aerial perspectives while working as a linesman on power poles. Now, it serves him well as a photographer.
Australia made good artists great
The new experience that Australia offered, both in the earliest days and throughout the colonial period, led to a curious phenomenon.
When is AI art? Joker will be the judge
The man who pranked the art world by winning a prestigious photography prize with an image generated by artificial intelligence has been enlisted to judge the world’s first serious AI art award.
How I heard myself reconsider the potential of AI
Tools like ChatGPT can open an exciting world of opportunity for the arts and creative industries – if we learn how to use them.
Won’t someone think of the art?
An over-designed and gratuitous entry at Melbourne’s NGV does not bode well for an exhibition of the work of an appealing but second-ranking painter.
How a celebrated artist found ‘retribution by proxy’
When Yvonne Todd spotted an ex-boyfriend from a toxic relationship in the supermarket she asked her husband to help her exact a surprising act of revenge.
‘White hands concerns are valid’
NT Arts Minister has written to Tony Burke to push the ‘valid and numerous’ concerns Indigenous art industry leaders have about a SA-led probe into the APY Art Centre Collective.
Images from a pre-digital past
This 40-year survey of work by Anne Zahalka raises questions about truth in photography.
‘Married 64 years … now she’s set me off to finish things I haven’t done’
On the eve of two new exhibitions, arguably Australia’s greatest living painter William Robinson opens up about the loss of his wife and children, faith, identity politics in art and why he was an ‘absurdity’ as a goat farmer.
Our galleries have problems, but Frida’s a winner in Adelaide
There’s nothing worth seeing at the Art Gallery of NSW this winter, but many smaller galleries have done far better.
People’s pick a window on winning ways
First-time Archibald Prize finalist Jaq Grantford has won the people’s choice award with her second portrait of actor Noni Hazlehurst.
Beauty of biblical etches
Rembrandt took the art of printmaking to a new level of intensity, as powerful as anything he could have done in painting
APY art chief must step aside: integrity tsar
An investigation into the APY Art Centre Collective will ‘forever be under a cloud’ while manager Skye O’Meara remains, a public integrity advocate says.
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