It’s finally been launched. A new cultural policy for Australia. After years (actually decades) of neglect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched a new national cultural policy, Revive.
Gail Mabo’s latest, poignant exhibition tells the story of her mother and father, Dr Bonita Mabo and land rights activist Eddie Mabo, alongside recollections of childhood.
Lee Alexander McQueen was born in 1968, so he was young in the 1980s, absorbing all the flashes of art, design and culture in which postmodernism flourished.
A renowned Australian painter, the many sides of Peter Booth have been unfolding since the 1960s in works of dark narrative. Now, a new survey at TarraWarra Museum of Art traces what Booth tells us about humanity.
From sparkling seances to environmental care, Sydney Festival is back for the city’s summer crowds. With over 100 events across Sydney from 5 -29 January—including 18 world premieres and 14 Australian exclusives, from the city centre to Shoalhaven—here are our visual arts highlights.
From working with spider diviners to creating solarpowered hot air balloons, Tomás Saraceno’s exquisite art shows what we can learn from nature to rethink everything from climate change to wealth inequality.
With works exploring his Thai-Australian heritage, Nathan Beard’s latest solo show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art continues his nuanced understanding of identity as fluid and permeable.
We’ve curated our pick of outstanding regional exhibitions across the country this summer. From landmark shows devoted to First Nations artists to exhibitions on sport, VR, landscapes and the nature of painting, there is much to see outside the city—from Bathurst to the Sunshine Coast, and much more.
From the Archibald to the Mona Lisa to the selfie, portraiture is a ubiquitous genre of our time. Yet it has an urgent social undercurrent of whose image we value, and what that image speaks to—which contemporary artists like Blak Douglas, Atong Atem, Peter Drew, Yvette Coppersmith and Kate Beynon are questioning with stunning effect.
From Nick Cave to KAWS to Patricia Piccinini, artists in Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection look at the ever-blurred lines of design and art, capturing everything from the stuff we buy to fantastical realms.
The long-awaited new Sydney Modern campus, opening 3 December, will transform the Art Gallery of New South Wales—making it the largest cultural investment in Sydney since the Opera House.
Once called ‘Unaustralian’ by their own previous funders, Soda Jerk’s latest film at Samstag Museum of Art centres the moments that have defined the last six years: a pandemic, the Trump era, QAnon, the war in Ukraine and climate disaster.
