In the memoir Driftwood, Eva de Jong-Duldig remembers her remarkable parents. Her father Karl Duldig was a Modernist artist, her mother Slawa Horowitz-Duldig, also an artist, invented and patented the folding umbrella.
Tom Nicholson discusses the complex friendship between artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira and the response to their photographs made by Western Arrernte artists in the group show, What if this photograph is by Albert Namatjira?
In her book, Whiteley on Trial, journalist Gabriella Coslovich investigates a multi-million dollar case of alleged art fraud that centred on two paintings, both purportedly by Whiteley. The case was finally closed in mid-2017, but in this extract from Part I of the book, Tell the Truth, Coslovich takes us back to the beginning.
Painting has been declared dead more than once. But instead of its demise, Mark Titmarsh traces the expansion of the genre. In his book Expanded Painting the artist and academic argues that painting is as dynamic and relevant as ever.
In her essay ‘Dale Harding: Material Traces,’ reproduced below with permission from the book Dale Harding: Body of Objects, Angela Goddard traces the Brisbane-based artist’s biography, influences and career trajectory.
Janet Holmes á Court’s collection of Australian art is so extensive that works she owns the subject of two current exhibitions: Scratching the Surface at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Perth and Sung into Being at QAGOMA in Brisbane. And the Western Australian collector and philanthropist has just published a monograph, MUSE: A Journey through an Art Collection.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial, a showcase of largely international contemporary art and design, is an exercise in mass spectacle, theatre and immersion.
There’s a rich and long history behind cameraless photography yet it continues to beguile, and recently, divide the public.
ACE Open will exhibit Waqt al-tagheer, a show which ponders temporality while amplifying the voices of Eleven, a new collective of Muslim Australian artists.
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