Peru’s ancient golden empires inspire wonder
An engrossing exhibition at the Australian Museum transports visitors back to the mystical and majestic ancient empires of South America.
Visual Arts
Bucket list comes to us: Machu Picchu magic on show right here in Australia
Magnificent gold crowns, ceremonial cups used in human sacrifices, and a virtual flight off an Inca citadel: Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru exhibit comes to the Australian Museum.
Transparent paintings? You’ve got to see this
Time Magazine named her one of today’s most influential artists for redefining the craft. Now Australians will get the immersive and intense Julie Mehretu experience for themselves.
Splendour in the glass
Dale Chihuly’s glassworks represent an artistic marriage between the work of a single artist and the entire fabric of a single garden.
Pet project unites art of cats and dogs
More than 250 works by artists from Rembrandt to Hockney that immortalise our favourite animals are on show in Melbourne.
The snapper & the starlet
Photographer Eve Arnold spent 10 years photographing icon of the silver screen Marilyn Monroe and through the lens discovered a woman with a remarkable talent as a model … and a friend.
Stokes’ art gift smashes record
Kerry Stokes believes the NGA’s expanded sculpture garden will be an international drawcard and a source of national pride.
Why MONA succeeds where the rest fail
This extremely disparate exhibition appears to be a cheeky send-up of the Biennale industry – but it works, thanks to the notes.
Melbourne: through a migrant’s lens
David Niu emigrated from Shanghai in 2007, and says he still struggles with the language barrier in Australia. But his street photography of his adopted city speaks volumes.
How artist JiaWei Shen created Tower of Babel
An enthralling documentary about the creation of a unique work of art charts the history of communism and its impact on one long-suffering family.
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Striking works by artists who took part in the Australian Antarctic Division’s residency program between 1987 and 2009
‘They were dangerously modern’: trailblazing women artists
A big exhibition of Australia’s pioneering women artists who overcame social constraints is slated for the state art galleries of NSW and South Australia next year.
Prisoners in a foreign land
A moving exhibition documents the harrowing experience of a group of German men who were shipped to Australia in 1940.
Woodside shrugs off art scandal
WA Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti said the decision to accept the vandalised perspex into the museum’s collection was not one she would have made.
‘Lindy, I want you to be as ambitious as possible’: Lee’s $14 million masterpiece
The National Gallery of Australia has unveiled its most expensive ever acquisition. But is Lindy Lee’s Ourorobos worth the multimillion dollar price tag, and will it stand the test of time?
NGA unveils most controversial purchase since Blue Poles in 1973
The National Gallery of Australia’s most expensive commission – a $14m sculpture by Lindy Lee of a self-eating serpent – has been unveiled in the forecourt of the Canberra institution.
Our critic’s verdict: $14m is an absurd price for a work of debatable value by an artist of modest standing
Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros is an example of the incompetent management of our National Gallery and of the weak and ineffectual oversight of the Council. Both should be replaced if the decline of the NGA is to be reversed.
Impressionist masterpieces heading Down Under
Works by artists including Monet, Renoir and Degas will travel from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to the National Gallery of Victoria in what will be one of the largest and most significant collections of French Impressionism ever exhibited here.
‘This sends the message to green activists that criminal acts should be celebrated rather than condemned’
What do you call a Woodside-hating radical’s spray paint job over one of the nation’s greatest paintings by Frederick McCubbin? Vandalism? Criminal damage? The Western Australian Museum calls it history.
10 must-see cultural landmarks: The world’s best new museums from Bali to Norway
Focused on everything from Balinese astrology to Shakespearean performance, these museums are as diverse as they are innovative.
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