The gallery’s closest held secret – Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, My Heart is Filled to the Brim with Sparkling Light installation – has finally been revealed. It is one of more than 200 pieces showing in the exhibition of the revered artist.
Yayoi Kusama, who voluntarily checked into hospital in 1973 and never left, has never been more popular. To witness her work is to unravel a 95-year-old mystery – but what’s with her obsession with pumpkins? | Listen to the weekend edition of The Front.
The incoming director at the Art Gallery of South Australia has been revealed after an international search.
The National Gallery of Australia’s most expensive commission – a $14m sculpture by Lindy Lee of a self-eating serpent – has been unveiled in the forecourt of the Canberra institution.
Film and stage director Rachael Maza and Indigenous arts centres peak body boss Philip Watkins will chair the inaugural First Nations Arts board, the government has announced.
Opera Australia artistic director Jo Davies has sensationally left the national company over ‘differences of opinion’, less than a year into her contract.
One of the country’s most talented and controversial directors will headline the 2025 Adelaide Festival, the prestigious arts jamboree in turmoil after the resignation of its much-vaunted international director.
A major new acquisition will help deepen conversations over Paul Gauguin’s troublesome legacy, says National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich.
Of all the theatre companies in all the world, a small, independent regional troupe of disabled and neurodivergent actors from Geelong was chosen by the Venice Biennale as the recipient for the prestigious Golden Lion.
Geelong’s Back to Back theatre has received the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, making it the third Australian participant in the ‘art Olympics’ this year to take out a top honour.
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