Renoir still-life painting for sale with prop
The Fleurs dans un vase still life will be put up for auction in London next month, along with the original Italian ceramic vase.
Visual Arts
Baroque beauty you must see
Regional art, and art connoisseurs, are the winners as the NGV partners with a gallery out west for this impressive exhibition.
Sex, death and rock ’n’ roll
Queens of the Stone Age, Paul Kelly and Courtney Barnett kicked off the opening weekend of the Museum of Old and New Art’s annual summer arts festival. And, now in its 16th iteration, Brian Ritchie’s jovial jamboree was full a surprises.
Here’s a hot tip for melting into a crowd
Street photography requires the photographer to go unnoticed. So how does Gavin Libotte manage that when he uses flash?
Photographers snap over AI entries
Competing against AI for a prestigious arts prize was a leap into the unknown our photographers wouldn’t take.
A religious experience at … MONA?
The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart has enjoyed juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary since its inception, but this is its first exhibition devoted entirely to old art. But does it work?
Ever wondered what it’s like inside a volcano?
This remarkable installation deep underground at MONA in Hobart is the work of the singer Jónsi from the group Sigur Rós.
The explicit art scandal involving police and a premier
The eight-metre-long painting featured an image of Marilyn Monroe and made front page news. ‘All hell broke loose’, Roslyn Oxley recalls. Her gallery had been open a month.
‘Barry Humphries loved owing me money — he thought it was hilarious’
He’s been a confidant of Australia’s finest painters – and their dealer – for 50 years. No wonder Philip Bacon’s home is full of treasures.
Activists hurl soup at Mona Lisa
Two women from an environmental group threw orange soup at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterwork, which is behind bulletproof glass at the Louvre.
Indigenous artists catching wind in the sails of the Opera House
A visionary partnership between Fondation Cartier, the Sydney Biennale and the Sydney Opera House puts First Nations art up in lights.
Portraits of the artist as source of disquiet
Melbourne businessman Joe Gersh has been a proud collector of Mike Parr’s self-portraits – but now he’s troubled by what the artist thinks about ‘my people, the Jewish people’.
‘A lot of women are still just playing in secret’
Millions of people watch Kathleen Belsten, aka Loserfruit, play video games online. But the 30-year-old influencer says gaming still has a gender problem.
How war shaped Kandinsky’s art
An exhibition about the Russian painter at Art Gallery of NSW reminds us that hope can prevail even under difficult political circumstances.
The art school ‘failure’ now giving the finger to the elite
David Shrigley scraped through art school with the lowest possible mark, yet has emerged as a practitioner way ahead of his time. It took Covid for us to see his genius.
On the forest wars’ frontline
Matthew Newton’s image of activist Anna Brozek standing on the giant stump of a felled 80m mountain ash speaks volumes.
Henrique Oliveira confronted every artist’s worst fear
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira evokes the grandeur of the Amazon in his works. But as with tree roots, his career has taken many twists and turns.
How Louise Bourgeois spun her father’s affair into a cannibalistic artwork
Louise Bourgeois’s feelings of rage towards her father – and her governess – were reflected in her art as she emerged from a traumatic childhood to become, late in life, one of the world’s leading artists.
Combining activism and artistic endeavour misses the mark
It’s difficult for Hoda Afshar’s images to compete with the many vivid and painful photographs that have come out of protests in Iran, whether shots of demonstrators taking off their headscarves or women cutting their hair.
Banksy reveals first name is Robbie
The artist was in his 20s at the time, and was promoting the opening of his Turf War show in east London.
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