From Engagement to Action
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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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The three major international artists coming to Sydney this summer
A surrealist legend, a cyber-futurist Chinese artist and a revered painter are showing in Sydney later this year: René Magritte and Cao Fei at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Julie Mehretu at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Art Guide Australia
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Shifting focus: ‘Outside the Frame’ turns the lens onto video and time-based art
Video and time-based art is a mutant medium with a disjointed history. Jane O’Sullivan reviews Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image, which takes a snapshot of contemporary practice through 21 recent moving image commissions.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Inside Kez Hughes’s adorned Melbourne studio
Step into Melbourne’s iconic Nicholas Building, where Kez Hughes has been crafting meticulous oil paintings that depict ancient objects from European museum collections—all for her solo exhibition Translations at Nicholas Thompson Gallery.
Josephine Mead
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