Sydney Contemporary is going annual this year. In its third iteration, the event is set to be “wonderful and varied” says Sydney Contemporary CEO and director, Barry Keldoulis, who describes this year’s line-up as the strongest to date.
Esther Anatolitis is NAVA’s new Executive Director.
Taken all together, Can’t Touch This is an ode to the provocative power and diversity of contemporary textile practices.
Women aren’t objects and girls have power. These are the overarching statements being made by two new exhibitions at ACE Open. Featuring video and ceramic works by Margaret Dodd, alongside an experimental documentary by Kate Blackmore, the shows collectively explore the complex relationships between suburbia and womanhood.
Melbourne-based photographer and videographer Isaebella Doherty has won the $5000 non-acquisitive Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women for a black and white portrait of her sister titled Pearl.
After three exhibitions, Leah and Charles Justin are handing over their floor space to Canberra-based couple Susan Taylor and Peter Jones.
Tastes Like Sunshine speaks to our changing relationship with food, the social attitudes which experiment with its use, the fashion which directs the way it is promoted and consumed, and its central importance as sustenance.
“There are no fixed rules about what form this exhibition can take,” says TarraWarra Museum of Art’s director Victoria Lynn of the TarraWarra International.
Finding herself fatigued by art’s pursuit of endless innovation, Myriam Mechita’s research took an alternative turn.
Tega Brain’s peculiar projects ask: Can art fix the environment? Would you choose a partner based on their scent? Can laundromats feed a wetland?
Kylie Stillman’s work addresses big issues, such as the environment, in an intricate, delicate way. Her work is an invitation to pause, interact and reflect on our relationship with nature.
Bringing together 90 artists across 14 events throughout Melbourne, Channels 2017 celebrates the importance of video art, showcasing the different ways artists use and incorporate the moving image.
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.
Heide Museum of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster exhibition is unveiling the breadth and beauty of Italian modernism through design. With over 170 objects spanning sixty years, Molto Bello explores the cultural impact of this period of creativity and invention.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
