Professional Art Therapist Part 2: Curators*
Frankly, living artists are a bore. I prefer dead artists.
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Frankly, living artists are a bore. I prefer dead artists.
It All Started With a Stale Sandwich is a documentary about the 50-year history of Kaldor Public Art Projects, made by London-born, Sydney-based film director Samantha Lang.
Perhaps, after seeing Papier Mâché for Beginners, people in Perth will see our ‘Cactus’ in a different light.
Exploring the semiotics and aesthetics of a retail workplace, Mixed Emotions consists of 2,157 labels that adhere to commercially sold tins of paint, indicating the colour mix, ingredients and date and time of mixing.
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
With Convergence II, Monika Lukowska and Melanie McKee endorse a kind of art practice in which studio endeavour and everyday life are conflated.
Local and international artists create fine-drawn moments of memory and existence at TarraWarra International.
Monet: Impression Sunrise is a chance to reflect on the vagaries of history.
D’Souza will be showing a body of new work in an exhibition titled with three emojis: a pizza slice, praying hands and a heart, as in Eat, Pray, Love.
Joanna Braithwaite has won the third annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
50 years on, Penelope Seidler recalls the first ever Kaldor Public Art Project: Christo and Jeane-Claude’s groundbreaking Wrapped Coast.
In Ian Tully’s solo exhibition, a farmer prepares for the inevitable move to Mars.
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.
Symbols and images dance across Nathan Beard’s vast body of work, all connecting back to his Thai-Australian heritage. We step inside the artist’s studio space in Preston, Victoria, and discuss his upcoming exhibition at Sweet Pea Gallery.
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.
