Christopher Allen

TIME is used to remarkable effect in Christian Marclay’s video work The Clock at the newly reopened Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

THE National Museum of Australia’s Travelling the Silk Road exhibition has the pervasive feel of being addressed to a clever schoolchild.

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THE Rick Amor Drawing Prize, established in 2010, is held every second year at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Victoria.

A COUPLE of recent exhibitions have recalled the part Germans played in the history of Australia.

THIS time of year sees the same familiar picture of disparate mediocrity but some contenders still manage to stand out from the crowd.

WILLIAM Kentridge is anything but the familiar battery hen of the contemporary art business yet he has achieved great acclaim.

AN outstanding exhibition of books from the 13th to the 18th centuries takes us to an Islamic world that is unimaginably remote from the present.

THE paradoxical title of this year’s Adelaide Biennial, Parallel Collisions, is evidence of curator-speak’s linguistic and logical flabbiness.

THE Archibald Prize is a bit like those starlets who are famous for being famous – it’s newsworthy for being newsworthy.

CLAUDE Lorrain and J. M. W. Turner defined what the genre could be.