‘Journey of a lifetime’ over for artist’s $14m masterpiece
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’.
Visual Arts
Behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ of art’s greatest illustrator
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.
Is art the key to a circular economy?
Artist Nicholas Mangan’s new exhibition A World Undone at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia explores a time before consciousness and life itself.
‘Absolutely incredible’: record local showing of Egyptian treasures
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.
After losing her voice, Jenny Morris found her heart
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.
Deserving winner in a field of mostly undeserving rivals
Archibald Prize-winning artist Laura Jones has understood that you have to see through and, as it were, behind original images, not just reproduce them.
Archibald ‘incredible thrill’ follows missed phone call
Sydney artist Laura Jones admits a ‘glitch’ delayed the news that she’d won the nation’s most celebrated award with her ‘bold but tender’ painting of Tim Winton.
Lost and found in Pompeii
Recently discovered frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology highlight the skills of regional masters commissioned to paint them.
Indigenous artists to stage grand takeover of Federation Square
Dynamic cultural figure Tony Albert will take centre stage with a work resembling a comical alien invasion … until you look closer.
Artist’s London update on Indigenous life
Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Naomi Hobson hopes her photographs offer those on the other side of the world a fresh and homegrown perspective of Aboriginal Australians’ life on country when they are displayed at London’s prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dispatches tell tales of war in real time
George Gittoes travels for all of us, living on a knife edge and documenting human atrocities. And every day he writes to let the world know he’s still alive.
Is New York‘s bohemian spirit still alive and well?
Australian photographer Tony Notarberardino moved into the Hotel Chelsea in 1994 and ‘never left’, snapping hundreds of hotel residents, staff – and some famous faces.
‘Found’ Klimt’s record sale price
The unfinished portrait of a dark-haired woman was likely last seen at a Viennese exhibition in 1925 until it re-emerged this year.
Anna Park invites you to take a closer look
Her works appear quaintly benign at first glance, but edge closer and the motifs sharpen like a knot in the gut. It’s no wonder artist Anna Park is taking the world by storm.
Australia’s Biennale mural is a sprawling Indigenous/Scottish family tree
This mural surrounds a memorial to Indigenous deaths in custody – a solemn reminder that First Nations Australians are among the most incarcerated people globally.
Missing van Eyck masterpiece still grips nation
The theft of Just Judges from Belgium’s St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent remains one of the art world’s most remarkable mysteries.
Archie Moore the first Australian to win Golden Lion
The Indigenous artist has made art history winning the coveted top prize for his kith and kin installation, a sprawling genealogy spanning 65,000 years.
Caravaggio’s death still haunts his work
The artist would make Johnny Depp blush when it comes to celebrity hellraising but mystery surrounds his demise at 38.
Too close for comfort
When a big storm loomed over Broken Hill, Aaron Hawkins set out to catch some lightning shots. He got more than he’d bargained for…
Art world outsider lands Gallipoli Prize
Luke Cornish has taken out the $20,000 prize with The Pity of War, a contemporary reimagining of Michelangelo’s La Pieta.
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