Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art
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Serwah Attafuah: a powerful and most welcome voice in contemporary Australian art
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
Dominic Redfern

Anne Dangar: Uncovering a Cubist pioneer
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.
Camilla Wagstaff

Time scales
The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
Barnaby Smith

Nusra Latif Qureshi and the threads of history
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
Tahmina Maskinyar

Ways of seeing
In an era that is saturated with visual information, photographs that change the way we see the world can feel increasingly elusive. We invited three photographers to choose an image that challenges our assumptions about politics and culture during this historical moment.
Art Guide Australia

Dale Chihuly peers through the looking glass
The glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly, now on display at Adelaide Botanic Garden, speak to the power and pitfalls of visual pleasure in an increasingly contested world.
Neha Kale
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