In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
One of Australia’s renowned illustrators, Oslo Davis, gives us a glimpse into the motivations, meaning and humour behind a recent collection of drawings.
Tarrawarra translates as ‘slow-moving water’, and the ‘TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters’ embraces slowness amidst an accelerating 21st century.
“We want your blood,” declared Dark Mofo on Saturday. This was not a metaphorical call. This was a literal request of First Nations Peoples by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.
Through the characters Sox and Yow, artist duo Astro Morphs create videos that are equally cosmological and biological.
The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.
Now in its third iteration, The National 2021 is about care, hope, storytelling, and triumph through adversity.
Famous for his slow-motion videos of skateboards, motorbikes, surf boards and BMXs, Shaun Gladwell’s newest art delves into something we’re all familiar with: domesticity and personal exercise.
In Flesh after Fifty more than 500 women tackle the twin battles of sexism and ageism, head on and clothes off.
After being closed for several years, the Western Australian Museum has reopened with a new name, Boola Bardip, and a renewed focus on a deeper understanding of Indigenous knowledge.
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 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.
Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s major retrospective on singular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, we invited four artists to respond to the influence of Kusama on their own practice—and meditate on what her work means to them.
Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.
