The more things change, the more they stay the same. What can a 500-year-old triptych by Hieronymus Bosch tell us about the current political climate?
“Dooralong is just a valley populated by horses, cows and trees, but it’s very beautiful to me,” says Belynda Henry of her home in New South Wales.
Showing at Devonport Regional Gallery, the Burnie-based artist’s work explores his ancestors’ past, alongside the emotion and memory of living on an Aboriginal mission.
In Brooke Leigh’s video Searching For Alice, 2015-2017, scenes of a deciduous forest bereft of leaves are interspersed with close-up shots of a young woman’s mouth.
Congratulations to Andrew Browne who has been awarded the $30,000 Geelong contemporary art prize for 2018.
A rare opportunity begets a rare challenge: extract 130 years of the Museum of Modern Art’s rich collecting in 200 works or less.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley met at the Arts Centre Melbourne last weekend to announce plans for a major redevelopment of Melbourne’s Southbank arts precinct.
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM is a leading academic and early childhood educator. She curated the first exhibition at Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art (GoCA), Starting Young.
Brodie Ellis’s video work, A Crystal World, 2016, cuts together footage of Australian mining explosions, sourced online, into a slow motion sequence.
A collection of full-scale concrete barriers, painted in Yves Klein’s trademark blue, rest in an untidy pile on a gallery floor.
A unique and unprecedented collaboration between four galleries in the Hunter region, the Hunter Red suite of exhibitions aims to celebrate the Indigenous culture, social diversity, iconoclastic spirit and creative flamboyance of this growing area of NSW.
This year John Mawurndjul, from Arnhem Land, NT, and Mavis Ngallametta, from the Aurukun community, Qld, both received Red Ochre Awards.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Emma Phillips has a knack for catching moments of unbridled humanity. In her latest exhibition at ReadingRoom, she shines a light on the breadth of her practice, amalgamating several projects from the last decade.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
Symbols and images dance across Nathan Beard’s vast body of work, all connecting back to his Thai-Australian heritage. We step inside the artist’s studio space in Preston, Victoria, and discuss his upcoming exhibition at Sweet Pea Gallery.
