The show features new commissions as well as recent and historical works by more than 30 local Indigenous artists, celebrating the continuing vitality of First Nations’ communities.
While the thought of our impending demise makes most of us uncomfortable, Suzanne Archer looks at death with curiosity and a dark twist of humour.
The honeymoon was already over at The Honeymoon Suite, with wandering hands during its inaugural show, Rose coloured glass.
Practice makes perfect, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Kate Rohde has spent the past 10 years or so honing what she has described as a “hyperactive” practice.
Ella Barclay is a kind of techno-alchemist. She is known for her immersive installations in which computer wires, water, mist and diodes are transformed into pulsing organisms.
A major restoration program at Versailles has allowed a number of significant objects to travel from France to Australia for the first time.
Salote Tawale has been awarded the inaugural Arts NSW Visual Artists Fellowship. Tawale was selected from a shortlist of six NSW artists which also included: Khadim Ali, Linda Dement, Karla Dickens, Bianca Hester and Hiromi Tango.
Soda_Jerk, a two-person art collective formed in Sydney in 2002, has been awarded the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission (IPMIC).
Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver (1959-2006) was a quiet overachiever. Her works are displayed in some of the most prominent public spaces around Australia, housed in many private and public collections, and on display inside some of Australia’s most-visited buildings.
For French artist Philippe Parreno, the show is itself art-in-progress, not merely a vehicle to display discrete works.
Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Digital Portraiture Award for his submission titled Charles.
It’s an art historical convention that there is a difference between nudes and naked bodies. Nudes (both male and female) are meant to be pure idealised form, devoid of salacious overtones.
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.
Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.
In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.
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.
