The best summer art shows
While there are a few interesting exhibitions to see here this summer, the quality overseas is worth long haul
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London sketches outline Williams
The landscape master’s early drawings show he had a clear sense of direction, even if he didn’t know where the journey would lead.
Our most impressive artist?
Cressida Campbell’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia reveals an artist at the very top of her game
Nicholas Harding: Australian painting’s great loss
Some of Nicholas Harding’s final landscapes before his death reflect our brief presence in the endless flow of being.
Life before modern anaesthesia, antiseptics and antibiotics
The entrance to the exhibition is designed as a doctor’s waiting room. Then you walk down corridors leading into various consulting rooms, representing different areas of medical science.
Forget MONA. Try this museum instead
There is more to the Tasmanian capital’s art scene than David Walsh’s MONA, and there are rich rewards for those who seek it out
Bill Henson captures Greek beauty
Two Hellenic Museum exhibitions, a Bill Henson photographic installation and a Sam Jinks sculpture, bring artefacts to startling life
Here comes the sun
Light has come to symbolise the beginning of life, clarity of reason and a feeling of joy. We don’t call a rainy day gloomy for nothing.
The Sydney Opera Houses that weren’t
The thankfully unrealised architectural visions for the harbour city and photos from Federation capture Sydney’s colourful history.
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: the most influential poem of all time?
Albert Tucker and John Brack are among the Australian artists influenced by this important poem, whose 100th birthday deserves more recognition from our state galleries.
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