Natasha Cica resigns as director of Heide
One of Melbourne’s iconic public galleries, Heide Museum of Modern Art, announced this week that Dr Natasha Cica has resigned as director.
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One of Melbourne’s iconic public galleries, Heide Museum of Modern Art, announced this week that Dr Natasha Cica has resigned as director.
Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou died on Wednesday 11 April, following a long illness. Widely recognised as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists, Papapetrou came to photography later in life and quickly rose to prominence.
The exhibition WROL (Without Rule of Law), at Melbourne’s Bus Projects, focused on preppers who fetishise and invest in the collapse of civilisation.
The National, an ambitious biennial initiative staged across three major Sydney institutions, will be back in 2019.
For the 21st Biennale of Sydney, a full wing of Artspace is dedicated to the videos, sculptures, notes and paintings of Belgian artist Michaël Borremans. The darkened space is punctuated with screens, low-lit plinths and glass-topped cases.
“I had never heard of Bob Ross when I first encountered his smiling face looking out from the ranks of recommended TV shows, but I am sure my reaction to him was typical of the reason his show is now so popular.”
Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.
Following weeks of speculation, Mitzevich will be replacing current NGA Director Gerard Vaughan, who is retiring from his post on July 1.
The exhibition With Seeing Hands features contributions from seven mostly Melbourne-based artists, some of whom identify as having sensory or mobility disabilities.
The paintings in New Zealander Judy Millar’s solo show, My Body Pressed, have a particularly visceral quality.
Khaled Sabsabi migrated to Australia with his family in the early years of the protracted and bloody Lebanese civil war (1975-1990).
When coordinator Erin Coates talks about the upcoming show at Fremantle Art Centre, Revealed Exhibition: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, she pauses to talk about one work in particular.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
