From kewpie dolls used in the 2000 Sydney Olympics to a satirical bust from the 16th century, the Powerhouse Museum curatorium pick four of their favourites in the current show, 1001 Remarkable Objects.
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia.
A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?
Dance and choreography are experiencing a vital and widespread renaissance in contemporary art—but what’s the link and history between these two worlds, and how do they entwine in Australian arts today?
Spring1883 is back at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, with everything from sculptures of hot chips with wilted roses to Taylor Swift getting “cancelled”. At this boutique art fair, installation is everything—and the Art Guide editors have selected their top picks.
Spanning the entire state of South Australia, SALA Festival is returning in 2023 with a staggering 9,000 artists, spanning everything from intimate studio tours to virtual reality.
If you live in Melbourne, you’ve likely seen Olana Janfa’s art. An Ethiopian-Norwegian artist, Janfa’s vivid, playful, and sometimes pointed paintings give a range of insights, from African diaspora to family love–and they’re showing at the Immigration Museum.
Across rhinestone-encrusted objects to multi-channel videos, Chantal Fraser’s (literally) dazzling art at Griffith University Art Museum reimagines the workings of power.
Motherhood, domesticity, landscape, memory—these are just some of the experiences and memories Sally Anderson has captured in her two-decade painting practice, underpinned by a persistent blue, now showing at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.
The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.
View, in pictures, the largest representation of art from First Peoples ever to be assembled, from Emily Kame Kngwarreye to Tommy Watson—now showing at the LUME Melbourne.
