In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed she faked a number of Pablo Picasso paintings hanging in the gallery’s new ladies toilets, established in response to the forced closure of the Ladies Lounge earlier this year.
What can eco-conscious artists and galleries do to assist the battle against climate change? Deborah Hart, co-founder of CLIMARTE, is working to champion creative action in restoring a climate capable of sustaining life.
As NAIDOC Week comes to a close, it’s also the final days to catch John Prince Siddon’s latest exhibition at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, showcasing his unique and distinctive style of painting.
Care is a word thrown around not just the art world, but many facets of life. Now, a new exhibition between Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University Art Museum is questioning the complexities of the word and action.
Gomeroi/Gamilaraay Murri Yinnah photographer and photojournalist Barbara McGrady has been capturing Country and community for five decades. Her latest exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre is a “multichannel audio-visual black takeover of the white cube”.
The assemblage of new motherhood, of shifting time and experience, is mirrored in Lillian O’Neil’s poignant artistic assemblages at UNSW Galleries.
From collecting artworks to experiencing the nexus of art and technology, across Darwin, North Queensland, South Australia, Melbourne, Sydney and much more, here’s our curated list of the arts festivals and fairs still to come in 2024.
A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat asks nine Australian and five US artists to respond to the visual culture of the landscapes and architecture of Palm Springs, California.
In Hair Pieces at Heide Museum of Modern Art, hair symbolises the burden of gendered labour—while speaking to how bodies are subject to wider tensions between freedom and control.
The Immigration Museum’s Joy exhibition offers seven Victorian artists a whole room in which to convey what joy means to them. Callum Preston has recreated a nostalgia-soaked video store, straight out of the 90’s.
Two exhibitions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery are exploring two varying yet interlocked conceptions of time: history as an evolutionary process amid our daily experiences of life.
This year has seen a flurry of new activity in Australia’s art scene, with a number of new gallery spaces opening up and relaunching across the country. Here are four you need to check out, from a new Sydney location to an online platform aiming to revolutionise the art market.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Arwin Hidayat’s TERNYATA AKU MASIH BERBAHAS (It Turns Out I’m Still Breathing) at Mitchell Fine Art, presents a lifetime of visual storytelling, experimentation and curiosity.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Wollongong Art Gallery, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
