Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2018
Jeff Khan says the Liveworks program evolved organically, but one idea he kept returning to was about “bodies at the edge.”
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Jeff Khan says the Liveworks program evolved organically, but one idea he kept returning to was about “bodies at the edge.”
Peter Raissis, curator of European prints and drawings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales where 65 of their paintings will be on view in Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage, insists that the show is not going to feel like walking through a textbook.
Congratulations to Hoda Afshar who has won the $30,000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Congratulations to Zoe Young who has won the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award for 2018.
Beyond Bling! is the third in the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Culture Juice series of popular culture exhibitions.
Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.
Can you have too much of a good thing? William Kentridge seems determined to find out in his survey show, William Kentridge: that which we do not remember, at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
“What do you say when you’re not a painter? Say you’re a video artist – how do you explain that to your accountant? Your mechanic?”
In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.
In this latest Art Guide podcast, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, a Yamatji Nyoongar man from Western Australia with Dutch and Scottish migrant history, talks about his curatorial and consultancy roles. But he’s careful to point out that he sees himself less as a voice of authority and more as a conduit.
Sera Waters talked with Sheridan Coleman about dated craft fads, the silences of Australian history, and her current residency and upcoming shows from a squashy velveteen divan, amid skeins of pastel yarn.
One of the first things you will notice when entering Eva Rothschild’s exhibition Kosmos at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is the monumental scale of the works. Stark, formalist forms in black metal and concrete dominate your view.
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 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.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
Heide Museum of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster exhibition is unveiling the breadth and beauty of Italian modernism through design. With over 170 objects spanning sixty years, Molto Bello explores the cultural impact of this period of creativity and invention.
