Our forgotten genius
The dreamlike paintings of Clarice Beckett are being seen in a new, exciting light
Christopher Allen
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Sex to Sanskrit: the true history of Tantra
Tantra arose from the collapse of a prosperous, peaceful and unified empire, in a time of disarray, violence and fear.
These artists court catastrophe
Can reflecting on the havoc wreaked by flood, fire and drought teach us something about the future?
Australia like you’ve never seen it before
The real interest of this book is that it contains so much on Australian art, both in detailed information and especially in intimacy of engagement and in quality of insight, that is nowhere to be found on the great information supermarket of the web
Name this artist
The National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name exhibition asks more questions than it answers.
Artists bare all
If only the Archibald Prize could present works as transfixing and honest as those in this National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the artistic process
Love, desire, death: an unmissable exhibition
A year fraught with closures and cancellations ends on a welcome note, with a number of excellent exhibitions at home and abroad.
These scars tell a story
Tattoos may be a way of dealing with the trauma of war, but they are also a way for veterans to connect with other people.
‘Being sober in art world like being fully dressed at an orgy’
Tim Olsen gives an insider’s view of the art world and living in the long shadow of his famous father John.
The teen prodigy who changed Australia
How two paintings by the prodigy, more than 30 years apart, show the evolution from the axe to the chainsaw and concerns about large-scale land-clearing.
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