Music meets dance in passion project
A spectacular collaboration between Rafael Bonachela’s Sydney Dance Company and Richard Tognetti’s Australian Chamber Orchestra celebrates the music of Arvo Part and JS Bach.
Visual Arts
Essence of sensibility
Works by Wendy Sharpe and Peter Kingston display equally distinctive, if very different, aesthetic personalities.
‘The last life lesson Mum ever gave me’
When photographic artist Aletheia Casey made this image of her mother, she didn’t realise how special it would turn out to be.
Brutal regimes shaped from noble ideas
She fled the Soviet Union with her family for a new life in Australia — and now a major survey of her sculptural work is on at the NGV. What drives artist Nina Sanadze?
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Every picture tells a story, even those manipulated
Images have been manipulated since the earliest days of photography, as this University of Sydney exhibition highlights.
The hunt continues for Kahlo’s lost painting
The Wounded Table was an act of post-divorce revenge, but it went missing in the 1950s. Is all hope of recovery lost?
New exhibition offers heartwarming glimpses into this Australian life
The finalists for the Australian Life 2024 photography competition are in. Their images will make you do a double take.
Deep geological time on the canvas
A new exhibition, Stonework at Castlemaine Art Museum, takes a deep dive into the overbearing reality of geological time in 19th and 20th century landscapes paintings.
‘Fraud’ or fun? MONA displays Picasso fakes for three years
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art has revealed it has been fooling the world — ‘Picasso’ paintings it has displayed for three years are fakes.
Artist unmasks gallery’s cultural confusion
The quirky, vibrant masks artist Liz Parkinson creates are lauded and loved worldwide but in regional NSW it’s a different story.
Artful meeting of East and West
This exhibition shows how leading artists Cressida Campbell and Margaret Preston melded Japanese printing techniques with an Australian aesthetic.
Felling William Crowther’s statue wasn’t the way to right a historical wrong
Not all civic statues are appropriate for all time, but common public space needs to be respected – not vandalised.
Fashion’s mad scientist reveals the formula
Beloved by eccentric and icons such as Bjork and Lady Gaga, polymath Iris van Herpen reveals how her synaesthesia – including ‘seeing’ music – informs her out-of-this-world designs.
How you can ‘party like its 1599’ at the Illuminate festival
The festival’s eclectic program this year will involve almost 150 artists who draw on everything from deepfake technology to 3D NASA photographs and the primal power of fire.
Gauguin exhibition begins at his lonely end
The National Gallery of Australia’s Gauguin blockbuster is the first exhibition to focus on the French master’s Oceania period.
Raising the temperature
Melbourne’s Rising festival of art, music and performance has plenty to amuse and provoke.
How to deter art vandals? Punish them properly
It’s time to weight fines on gallery vandals with the significance of their targets.
Portrait prize landed as owl gives wings to ‘Archibald reject’
One art competition’s reject turned into another’s treasure for veteran painter Noel McKenna – with a slight rework to claim the top gong.
‘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’.
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.
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