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A self-portrait taken in 1979, the year before she died aged 30 of a rare liver disease.

Carol Jerrems died at 30. This exhibition of her work is a revelation

She died young, and that is the least important aspect of this Australian photographer’s art.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn

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Ouroboros, a scuplture by artist Lindy Lee

There’s much more to Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros than the $14m price tag

There are far more generous and meaningful ways to discuss the NGA’s shiny new sculpture.

  • Alex Burchmore
The philosophical lamp (La lampe philosophique), 1936

Magritte’s sheer visual magic on show in AGNSW’s summer exhibition

The Belgian surrealist made money during World War II by selling Titian knock-offs to Nazi occupiers.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn
Clayton Blake’s Odyssey.

What to see (and what to skip) at Sculpture by the Sea

There’s 100 artworks from 103 artists on display – if you can get past the golden gorilla testicles.

  • Robert Moran
Isaac Julien’s Once Again... (Statues Never Die) at the MCA.

Hauntingly beautiful, Isaac Julien’s installation at the MCA is a must-see

The extraordinary black-and-white five-screen film installation is unexpectedly healing.

  • Cherine Fahd
Dumbrell, 82, with her artwork Solstice (1974)

Line, space, repeat: The divine madness in this artist’s abstract patterns

At 82, Australian abstract artist Lesley Dumbrell’s retrospective, Thrum, is long overdue.

  • John McDonald
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Sea of Buddha 008, 1995.

Take a trip through time in this stunning photo exhibition

There’s deep complexity to the deceptively simple photos of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at the MCA.

  • John McDonald
Naomi Hobson’s Wuukanta: Life on the River

At Australia’s richest landscape prize, art conquered politics

This year’s $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize offered a range of ways of seeing our wildest terrain.

  • John McDonald
Ella Lee Fowler won the 5-8 age group at the Young Archie for a portrait of her best friend.

Fish, family and friends: Young Archie winners on show

This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.

Arthur Boyd at Bundanon.

Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time

The artist’s suite of large-scale landscape paintings will be shown in the place they were made.

  • John McDonald

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