When the time seems rite for renewal
Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti’s seven-channel video and sound installation is centred around the idea of seasonal renewal in a changing world.
Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti’s seven-channel video and sound installation is centred around the idea of seasonal renewal in a changing world.
More than 200 key works by about 130 First Nations artists from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection will be showcased in a ‘landmark’ exhibition in Washington next year.
Pop artist Derek Boshier’s Special K paintings mused on the Americanisation of UK culture and prefigured Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup pictures.
The third significant Australian display of art from the time of the pharaohs is impressive but overdesigned and often visually confusing.
His large-scale, film-based artworks are held in collections around the world. So what does Isaac Julien have to say about museums showing ‘stolen’ art and artefacts?
The Sydney Morning Herald’s art critic John McDonald has been dropped after 41 years of writing for the masthead and accused the newspaper of taking a ‘soft’, ‘supine’ and ‘silly’ approach to arts coverage.
The Archibald Prize-winner is speaking her mind ahead of her first solo institution exhibition since her history-making win.
A Melbourne art gallery has been condemned by political, Jewish and security leaders alike after displaying a huge inverted red triangle made popular by Hamas to mark targets for killing.
The collection of 154 pieces of art given by Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown to the National Gallery of Victoria reveals a taste that was open and even eclectic.
The Australian Ballet is breaking new ground with Oscar, a ballet about the flamboyant life and romantic loves of Oscar Wilde.
For all his personal and creative faults, artist Paul Gauguin remains a focus of attention.
Mystery surrounds the transformation of Mervyn Napier Waller from painter of seductive nudes to leading religious artist.
A new Vernon Ah Kee mural celebrates Brisbane writers as it wraps around independent bookstore Avid Reader.
Grace Crowley seems to have drawn by Ralph Balson into genre so incompatible with her sensibility that it extinguished her inspiration.
This important survey of the French post-impressionist’s work is mercifully free of irrelevant ideological posturing.
After 36 years, Gail Wiltshire is offering her theatre, and its legacy, to the people – much to the frustration of developers.
Carl Sagan, the great American astronomer, was fond of pointing out that our bodies are “made of star-stuff”. It’s literally true.
An artist who was one of Australia’s last traditional hunter-gatherers has won the $100,000 Telstra Art Award, the nation’s most prestigious prize for Indigenous artists.
The portrait is by Sydney artist Angus McDonald, a seven-time Archibald Prize finalist, who previously won the People’s Choice award in 2020.
How does Dani Watson create this otherworldly, sci-fi vibe in her landscape photographs? The answer will tickle you…
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