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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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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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The 2024 Archibald Prize finalists have been announced
The finalist portraits in the biggest Australian art award of the year have been announced, alongside the winner of The Packing Room Prize: Northern Rivers–based artist Matt Adnate for his portrait of ARIA Award–winning Yolŋu rapper, artist and actor Baker Boy.
Art Guide Australia
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Appreciating the life and art of Destiny Deacon
Destiny Deacon “was an artist who understood all that matters”, says the writer and poet Tony Birch, one of many friends and fellow creatives attending to their grief over the death of the esteemed multimedia artist last week, at the age of 67.
Steve Dow
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