Opening this Saturday, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus brings together 89 artists and features 330 works. An ode to rivers and waterways, both salt and fresh, the works are literal and metaphoric, thinking through the relationship of nature to world. This is our round up of what you can’t miss at this year’s Biennale.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
If life were a set of scales, what would the balance be for Australian female artists today? With over five decades of thinking, writing on, and curating exhibitions centring Australian women artists, Julie Ewington reflects on the position of female artists in Australia this International Women’s Day.
“I am interested in my own psychology and how women survive our culture,” says Prudence Flint, whose latest paintings depicting women are on show at Fine Arts Sydney.
‘The Picasso Century’ blockbuster will be opening at the National Gallery of Victoria in June, capturing Pablo Picasso’s extraordinary career, alongside dialogues with the many artists, poets and intellectuals he interacted with, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí and Gertrude Stein.
The arts industry is full of gatekeepers, but what happens when you become your own gatekeeper? Sophia Cai speaks with four artists who have stopped making work, or have slowed down in recent years, to ask whether they still consider themselves artists.
With a lineup of intergenerational artists, the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State is opening this weekend and is grappling with the state’s colonial origins, alongside questions of freedom and displacement.
As flood waters devastate south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, a number of galleries, museums and cultural hubs are currently closed. Our thoughts are with those affected. We’ll keep a rolling update of closures online, alongside ways those affected can be supported at this time.
From Melbourne to Sydney to Rockhampton to online, and regional towns in between, we’ve rounded up these eight new art spaces you should know about—whether galleries, artist-run-initiatives or new NFT platforms.
The reimagined $33 million Rockhampton Museum of Art is promising greater interaction with local Darumbal people. But the museum’s permanent collection—including Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Jeffrey Smart and Margaret Olley—holds the story of a mayor with a personality and a $500k art-collecting scheme.
The art of Léuli Eshrāghi is rigorous, beguiling and urgent: it’s searching for a future beyond the colonial present, and is showing at UQ Art Museum.
A political protestor and art photographer in the 1970s, Julie Rrap talks about being a woman today and tells us about her new work rethinking historical and feminist representations of the female body, showing at ARC ONE Gallery.
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.
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.
Melbourne-born figurative artist and ceramicist Rob McHaffie takes a global view of human idiosyncrasy. His biggest exhibition to date, now showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, covers over a decade of his painting practice.
In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.
