Houses in the most pleasant suburbs of Sydney are on generous grounds where owners spend time in the garden. But venture to the new fringe suburbs and you hit a cultural wasteland.
A bronze statue of Apollo is one of the most remarkable pieces in an exhibition offering vivid glimpses into the world of ancient Pompeii
Science fiction is stretched to absurd extremes in an exhibition that mixes futurism with a naively benign view of the past.
Chinese artist Cao Fei’s mind-bending exhibition at AGNSW has reclaimed the furniture from a once beloved Sydney institution.
Henry VIII, Adam and Eve and Aphrodite are among the ‘stars’ of this modest yet intriguing exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Campus was once a place for intimate, human gatherings and the exchange of brilliant ideas as is evident in this exhibition from the University of Sydney Union’s art collection.
Anyone with any judgment would have avoided choosing an artist connected with the nations involved in the bitter Middle East conflict as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative. Can you imagine the apoplectic outrage if a Jewish artist had been selected?
The artist’s pieces certainly stand out, but there’s little evidence their messages changed the opinions of Australians in the Depression, World War II and Cold War eras.
Ethel Carrick Fox and Anne Dangar, the two subjects of the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibition of women in art, are of a very different calibre.
The British Museum is staging a staggeringly ambitious exhibition of the ancient trading route connecting East and West.
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