Christopher Allen

Building is at last beginning on the Art Gallery of NSW’s much-criticised extension.

Iran has once again been in the news in the most dramatic way and yet remains a nation very poorly understood in the West.

Hugh Ramsay practised a tradition that predated the modernist fracturing of painting styles.

James Mollison is, with Edmund Capon, one of the two most significant Australian public gallery directors of recent decades.

Painting or sculpture, narrative or symbolism, yin or yang: this exhibition explores an age-old and ongoing debate.

The National Gallery of Victoria has gone to considerable lengths to highlight the work of Roger Kemp, in some cases quite literally.

A fierce and ongoing promotional campaign has over-estimated the significance of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art.

Visual artsReview

Robert Klippel’s works took various forms but always there was emphasis on the potential materials possess.

Florence Pugh found an unexpected role model in Little Women, playing Amy, who declares “I want to be great or nothing”.

Philippa Hawker

Whether she’s blowing things up or working with communities, Cornelia Parker infuses ordinary objects with unexpected perspectives.