For 50 years Melbourne’s APA studio has championed artists who experience the world differently, forging for artists like Alan Constable a place where their work is ‘interpreted, understood and critiqued’ in the same way as their peers.
The incoming director at the Art Gallery of South Australia has been revealed after an international search.
A portrait of an aristocrat by Caravaggio, which has never been seen in public before, has gone on show in Rome after a deal was struck with its secretive owner.
As hype builds ahead of another retrospective exhibition, the artist can be found creating new work for an audience of one. This is art as therapy, as Ben Quilty deals with the demons of the physical abuse he suffered as a schoolboy.
The 1970s images of acclaimed Australian photographer Carol Jerrems – who died aged just 30 – continue to shape our visual culture.
An engrossing exhibition at the Australian Museum transports visitors back to the mystical and majestic ancient empires of South America.
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.
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.
More than 250 works by artists from Rembrandt to Hockney that immortalise our favourite animals are on show in Melbourne.
Dale Chihuly’s glassworks represent an artistic marriage between the work of a single artist and the entire fabric of a single garden.
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.
Kerry Stokes believes the NGA’s expanded sculpture garden will be an international drawcard and a source of national pride.
This extremely disparate exhibition appears to be a cheeky send-up of the Biennale industry – but it works, thanks to the notes.
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.
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.
Striking works by artists who took part in the Australian Antarctic Division’s residency program between 1987 and 2009
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.
A moving exhibition documents the harrowing experience of a group of German men who were shipped to Australia in 1940.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Focused on everything from Balinese astrology to Shakespearean performance, these museums are as diverse as they are innovative.
The Beatles and Steve Jobs loved his art so much they ended up in court over it. Now, The Art Gallery of NSW unveils the first Australian in-depth exhibition dedicated to this surrealist master.
This remarkable exhibition deals with an aspect of Roman culture that is relatively unfamiliar to most people.
Tony Burke has remained tight-lipped after he advised the National Gallery the artist he appointed had resigned after calling out the state of Israel for committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza.
What led this painter to brush off the urbane art world and seek solace among the crocs in remote Far North Queensland?
For Australian expat painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Paris was a liberal city where they could escape the ‘stuffy moralism’ of England.
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