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.
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From riots and rations to the story of Aboriginal baking, this group exhibition explores how history has been shaped by the humble loaf.
Newly announced NGV 2021 season includes both local and international impressionism.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? These questions, and more, are explored in the second episode of our newest podcast series FEM-aFFINITY, featuring a very honest and intimate conversation with photographer Janelle Low.
Gabriella Hirst’s latest video takes influence from an 1800s painting of the Darling River, questioning why we immortalise nature in painting, but not in life.
Curator Tim Riley Walsh talks about bringing together Queensland artists to picture climate disasters that are beyond the limits of perception for On Fire: Climate and Crisis at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA).
Despite the barriers to international travel, New York artist Robin Frohardt is bringing her ecological art installation—centred on plastic bags—to Adelaide.
PHOTO 2021, which runs across multiple venues in Melbourne, tackles truth in the post-truth era.
Children can radically alter how artists approach their work—and some even find themselves collaborating with their kids.
Kangaroo teeth, river reeds, streetwear and sculpture: the rich world of contemporary Indigenous fashion.
LGBTQI+ people flash their tats and tell their tales in SKIN DEEP at the National Art School Cell Block Theatre.
In the group show Void, curator Emily McDaniel from the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri nation in central New South Wales invoked the void as a space occupied by Indigenous knowledge, stories and meaning.
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 her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.
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.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
