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Shiver
In Shiver, curator John Stafford notes that the shark has little profile in the history of art.
The notion of a worthy adversary is an ancient tradition. Matisse & Picasso narrates the artists’ intense mutual scrutiny, public disagreement and praise-via-appropriation.
Jumaadi’s exhibition My love is an Island Far Away at Mosman Art Gallery has been years in the making.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
This summer, the exhibition Water, which features 40 works by both Australian and international artists, asks visitors to take the time to really think about this precious resource.
“It’s pretty rudimentary,” Bryan Spier says of his garage studio. “I never shut that door, it feels too claustrophobic. I just rug up [in winter], I wear like 20 jumpers,” he half jokes.
In Shiver, curator John Stafford notes that the shark has little profile in the history of art.
An exhibition titled Animal Nation may, on the surface, presuppose a simply figurative display of animal life.
In Elena Papanikolakis’s paintings, personal history sat side by side with ancient history.
Through subtle sculptural gestures, Jenny Loft offers meditations on place and the importance of environmental care.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of insiders share their thoughts on what exhibitions they're planning to see and why.
Once popular, then shunned in favour of sobering modernity, yokai – the catchall term for Japan’s ghosts, demons and mythical creatures – are back.
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
ACMI’s new commissioning series involves 3 annual awards of $80,000 each, dedicated to helping young artists realise new work.
If you’ve been around the art world for awhile, it’s easy to forget that a lot of people can still find the whole thing intimidating.
Raquel Ormella has wielded a needle to chart our cultural landscape in all of its intensities.
Yhonnie Scarce creates works that not only have emotional depth and complexity, they are also tenderly monumental.
Focusing on a particular setting to reach something universal preoccupies Joanna Logue, and she tries to achieve this in her solo show Floating World through landscape paintings that lean towards the abstract.
Gallerist Anna Schwartz has been in the game for 35 years, and in an exhibition looking back, themes of change and returns resonate.
Insisting on the importance of the artist’s hand in giving a work vitality, Sydney artist Robert Klippel naturally made this evident in his distinctive sculptures.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
Along with being an independent curator, Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer and artist who continuously looks at the dynamics of power, systemic racism and racial hierarchies within a contemporary art context.
We are watching more videos on our small screens than ever before, but how much of it is art? Steve Dow spoke to artist Tina Havelock Stevens about being a self-confessed screen addict, and to Lauren Carroll Harris about her initiative Prototype, a curated platform for specially commissioned video art pieces.
Melbourne-based artist and author Tai Snaith recently travelled to London as a finalist in the World Illustration Awards. In her postcard from London she delves into the tricky question: What’s the difference between art and illustration?
2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. In recognition, Art Guide asked Anna Kenny to recall the journey she took to translate a more than 100-year-old dictionary written in German and three Aboriginal languages. Now in English, this multilingual dictionary is a powerful tool for preserving and propagating the use of several Indigenous languages in Central Australia.
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