Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia
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Nicholas Smith and the sensuality of sculpture
Nicholas Smith’s sensuous and bodily sculptures speak to the classical history of the form in an installation that is now on display at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Laura Couttie
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Belinda Fox masters the art of collaboration
In her latest exhibition at Arthouse Gallery, Belinda Fox invites friends and artists to contribute by reflecting on their sense of home.
Briony Downes
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GAGPROJECTS closes after 32 years
GAGPROJECTS, a mainstay of the Adelaide art scene, has announced that the Kent Town space it has operated out of for 32 years will close at the end of August.
Art Guide Australia
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‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time-warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a gloriously defiant statement of the ways we shape and reshape our identities over time.Cherine Fahd
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Fake Picassos in a ladies toilet: why the saga at MONA is one of the most effective pieces of performance art I’ve seen
In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed she faked a number of Pablo Picasso paintings hanging in the gallery’s new ladies toilets, established in response to the forced closure of the Ladies Lounge earlier this year.
Joanna Mendelssohn
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Do we all have status anxiety?
A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?
Neha Kale
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