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First Nations artists share their sun stories
For the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Paris-based Fondation Cartier has commissioned 14 new works by Indigenous artists across the globe, curated by renowned Kuku Yalanji artist, Tony Albert.
Neha Kale
The 10 new (and reopening) art spaces you need to know about
From revamped industrial sites to brand new spaces in Sydney, to openings in Adelaide, Melbourne, Cottesloe and Darwin—across Australia there’s a flurry of new and reopening gallery activity.
Art Guide Australia
Polka dot summer: The NGV announces Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition
The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled their summer blockbuster exhibition for 2024–2025. Yayoi Kusama’s signature polka dots and pumpkins, along with world-premiere work, will appear in Australia’s largest retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist.
Art Guide Australia
The rise of atmospheric painter Clarice Beckett
Working en plein air, Clarice Beckett’s tonalist paintings capture not only the likeness of a place, but how it felt to be there. Revisit our preview of the historical artist, who is now showing at Cairns Art Gallery with work from the 1920s and 30s.
Briony Downes
The spirit—and studio—of Margaret Olley lives on
A new exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery has preserved the relocated studio of Australian painter Margaret Olley, with her work providing inspiration for a new series of paintings by Mirra Whale, India Mark and Laura Jones.
Briony Downes
Talking with the 24th Biennale of Sydney artistic directors Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero
“It’s a call for the celebration of the multiplicity of perspectives, and the gathering of different viewpoints.” Ahead of the Biennale’s opening this weekend, we talk with long-time collaborators Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero about how this year’s Biennale is one of celebration, not fatalism.