Britpop brothers pit Jesus against Nazis
THE Chapman brothers have a new show. Or, rather, the Chapman brothers do not have a new show. Except that they do have a new show. Confused?
Visual Arts
Traditional themes mine new materials
VISUAL ARTS: Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, until December 19.
Anyone want a cheap Whiteley?
CALL it the Bargain Brett Sale: seven Brett Whiteley oils and sketches with a reserve of about $1.7 million will be offered for auction.
Intern nation
THE Enemy at Home is a moving reflection on the energy and ingenuity of the human spirit under very difficult conditions.
Public Works: Guy Warren
A CHANCE encounter with David Attenborough in London in the early 1950s changed the direction of Guy Warren’s career.
Novice at 96 marks indigenous art
IT was only about five years ago that Dickie Minyintiri, already into his ninth decade, first picked up a brush.
Celebrating creativity on a grand scale
WITH more than 4000 artists in 543 venues, the annual South Australian Living Artists festival was launched at the AGSA’s refurbished Elder Wing.
Seeing his land with the speed of light
FRED Williams was an artist who would paint only in Australia, nowhere else, because he knew it well.
Drawings not long for this world
THOM Buchanan has a remarkably relaxed attitude towards the fate of his work.
Monkey business over art award
A PAINTING portraying Jesus, Mary and Joseph as orang-utans is a finalist in the Blake Prize for religious art.
Portrait of an activist and bureaucrat
IN February 1965, a busload of Sydney University students, motivated by the US civil rights movement, travelled around regional NSW for two weeks.
Primitive brotherhood of masters
WHEN Giorgio Vasari published his artists’ biographies in the mid-16th century, he distinguished the Renaissance into three phases or “manners”.
Sotheby’s grooms a Boyd for $1.2m sale
SOTHEBY’S Australia hopes to defy the flat art market and fetch a record $1.2 million at auction for a rare Arthur Boyd painting.
Weimar breaks down the barriers
ARTISTS of all kinds are in concert on a Berlin theme.
The arty Brit who came and conquered
AN international search is under way to fill the top job at the Art Gallery of NSW after Edmund Capon announced his retirement as director.
Fireworks and a dash of Pulp
JARVIS Cocker and Pulp stole the show on the closing night of Splendour in the Grass.
Mixed judgments and lively debate
IN 1991, the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition declared the city’s aspiration to become an international chamber music capital.
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