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Lisa Roet puts our primate relations in the spotlight
For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apes—close relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
As part of a bumper Budget announcement yesterday, the Victorian government confirmed their commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary.
From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
After Victoria’s lengthy lockdown, Anna Schwartz has reopened with not one, but two exhibition spaces in her Melbourne gallery.
From Grace Cossington Smith to Tracey Moffatt to Yvette Coppersmith, a new exhibition celebrates 120 years of women making art in Australia.
On Our Country vividly shows how the Spinifex Artists have been reconnecting with waterholes and Dreaming sites that their families were forced to leave over half a century ago. Painting is one of many ways that their stories are retold and recorded.
For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apes—close relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
From Marlon Brando’s Triumph Thunderbird 6T in ‘The Wild One’ to the Harley-Davidsons of ‘Easy Rider’, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments.
MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture documents the six temporary architectural structures (MPavilions) commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation.
Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.
When Vincent Namatjira won the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture for Stand strong for who you are, his painting of AFL player Adam Goodes, there was a widely held feeling that justice had been done.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will reopen its renovated space in early 2021. But ACMI has already unleashed XOS, the shorthand title for its new internet “experience operating system,” which features artworks and performances curated and created specifically for online, and a new video-on-demand service for arthouse and festival films.
Three of the University of Sydney’s significant cultural collections all have a new home within the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Both artists and curators have been announced for The National 2021: New Australian Art, a major collaboration between three of Sydney’s biggest cultural institutions.
Over many months, Olga Cironis has been recording personal stories about love and connection. She talks about working collaboratively with strangers, and the intimate catharsis of speaking one’s experience out loud.
Co-curated by SAM’s Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates, Craftivism features 18 Australian artists who share an affinity for craft-based art with political gestures.
What happens when slogans and catchphrases are treated as instructions? In 2020, a year riddled with new phrases and contradictory messaging, Michelle Hamer has had plenty to work with.
Anywhere but here: MCA Primavera Acquisitions presents a tightly curated selection of works by 13 Primavera alumni, chosen for their ability to comment on our current moment.
Overlooked during her time, the late Pat Larter was a master of wit, theatrics and provocation.
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades?
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
Overseas travel is off the agenda for the foreseeable future, but Adam Bushby has fossicked through our state galleries to unearth four renaissance paintings by European masters held closer to home.
MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture documents the six temporary architectural structures (MPavilions) commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation.
In Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists, Abigail Crompton presents the work of more than 20 Australian and international artists that, in her words, tell a story of “resilience, tenacity, sacrifice and steely determination.”
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