Imprint of the divine
NO one interested in printmaking should miss the admirable exhibition devoted to Jessie Traill at the National Gallery of Australia.
Visual Arts
Body of work
RISING international star Christian Thompson uses his body as an armature to question what it means to be an indigenous Australian.
Intricate beauty
ONE of the most remarkable characteristics of the Hindu religion is the importance and popularity of goddess worship.
‘Ugly’ balloon under fire
IT won’t be unveiled until tomorrow but Skywhale, commissioned for the Centenary of Canberra, is already dividing opinion.
Balloon milks it for all it’s worth
A FORTNIGHT ago, a farmer made a disconcerting discovery: a gigantic whale was floating at low altitude over his property.
Artist finds rich seam in mining town
SYDNEY-based artist Guy Maestri is the winner of the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize.
Change at the top of the Powerhouse
VETERAN arts executive Rose Hiscock has been tapped to run Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum from July, replacing Dawn Casey.
Aunty channels the on-demand culture
THE ABC’s head of arts, Katrina Sedgwick, has made changes that can now be plainly seen on the small screen.
Hiscock appointed to Powerhouse
AUSTRALIA Council executive Rose Hiscock has been tapped as the new director of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.
Monet’s waterlilies far from home
HANGING an exhibition is a little like planting a garden. The metaphor is especially apt when the artist is Claude Monet.
Man of the people
NOEL Counihan was so passionate about his art and his politics that he believed the two should not be separated.
Recovered memories
IMAGINE the discovery, in 1951, of an archive of 3500 glass plates from the 1870s that had lain undisturbed for 80 years or so in a Sydney garden shed.
Bodies and soul
RECLUSIVE sculptor Ron Mueck’s way of working is as strange as his art.
Collection frames an ancient landscape
AFTER many years of negotiation, the exhibition Australia: land and landscape will open in London in September.
Vincent’s lasting impression
VINCENT Van Gogh used his sketchbooks to create some of his most intimate works.
Royal seal of approval for Aussie art
PRINCE Charles has been named as the patron of the Royal Academy’s survey of Australian art, a show that will feature works spanning 200 years.
Shiva request not passed on to gallery
AN international investigation into whether a 900-year-old Indian artefact at the NGA was looted appears to have hit gridlock.
Girl in portrait adds to Profumo mystery
A WITNESS to one of the most sensational sex scandals of British political history has been found staring out of a drawing, but her identity is a mystery.
Stalin, Matisse and an artistic feud
RUSSIA’S two greatest art museums were engaged in an unsightly public feud over an idea to revive a Moscow museum of Western art that was shut down by Stalin in the late 1940s.
A barra in Paris on a grand scale
HAROLD Mitchell waves his hand and predicts this will be the “most famous barramundi on Earth”.
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