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Did Yayoi Kusama predict our selfie obsession?
Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, on at multiple Sydney Living Museums sites, invites audiences to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of selfie culture.
Tracey Clement
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Patrick William Carter on collaboration and healing
The vibrant multi-disciplinary works of Noongar artist Patrick William Carter are, in their way, love stories: love of family, music, Country and culture.
Barnaby Smith
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Elizabeth Ann Macgregor sails away
Energetic, famously outspoken and determined, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor transformed the MCA, allowing free access for all — and for most of her 20 years as director, she was the only female head of a major Australian art museum.
Julie Ewington
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2021 Adelaide//International: the future as an unmade shared space
The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.
Steve Dow
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Meaning in Adam John Cullen’s sculptures
Adam John Cullen views his sculptural vessels as a kind of biographical excavation: his latest show, Elton, references the name of his Grandmother’s childhood corgi-mix.
Tracey Clement
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Interview: Janet Laurence on creating art during environmental crisis
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
Tiarney Miekus
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The old masters travel to Canberra
Botticelli, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir and Cézanne: in a time of limited travel, masterpieces from the National Gallery, London are coming to our National Gallery of Australia
Andrew Stephens
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Marlene Gilson’s histories of home
With an eye for capturing the colonial holds of history while communicating her profound spiritual connection to Country, in My Place – Before Marlene Gilson paints the history of her home.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Jack Lanagan Dunbar uses copper as an information conduit in Signal
Painter Jack Lanagan Dunbar uses copper and gestural mark-making to capture both the folly of humanity and the awesome power of nature in his solo show Signal, part of Art Month Sydney.
Barnaby Smith
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Fan Dongwang explores our Pandemic Bodies
In his solo show at Macquarie University Art Gallery, Pandemic Bodies, Fan Dongwang tries to raise awareness of humanity’s shortcomings.
Barnaby Smith
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A Call to Rise: the politics of bread
From riots and rations to the story of Aboriginal baking, this group exhibition explores how history has been shaped by the humble loaf.
Barnaby Smith
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Melbourne Winter Masterpieces and NGV 2021 exhibition season announced
Newly announced NGV 2021 season includes both local and international impressionism.
Art Guide Australia
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