With memorabilia coming to Bendigo Art Gallery direct from Graceland, how do we account for the enduring presence of Elvis, asks critic Rex Butler? “More popular than Jesus” is how John Lennon referred to The Beatles in 1966, a line we could lend to The King himself.
Opening this Saturday, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus brings together 89 artists and features 330 works. An ode to rivers and waterways, both salt and fresh, the works are literal and metaphoric, thinking through the relationship of nature to world. This is our round up of what you can’t miss at this year’s Biennale.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
“I am interested in my own psychology and how women survive our culture,” says Prudence Flint, whose latest paintings depicting women are on show at Fine Arts Sydney.
With a lineup of intergenerational artists, the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State is opening this weekend and is grappling with the state’s colonial origins, alongside questions of freedom and displacement.
From Melbourne to Sydney to Rockhampton to online, and regional towns in between, we’ve rounded up these eight new art spaces you should know about—whether galleries, artist-run-initiatives or new NFT platforms.
The reimagined $33 million Rockhampton Museum of Art is promising greater interaction with local Darumbal people. But the museum’s permanent collection—including Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Jeffrey Smart and Margaret Olley—holds the story of a mayor with a personality and a $500k art-collecting scheme.
The art of Léuli Eshrāghi is rigorous, beguiling and urgent: it’s searching for a future beyond the colonial present, and is showing at UQ Art Museum.
Melbourne Art Fair is back, presenting solo shows and works from 59 leading galleries and Indigenous-owned art centres from across the country. With so much to look at, we asked curator and writer Kelly Gellatly to tell us her ‘top 10 things to see’ at this year’s fair—for collectors and art lovers alike.
Vivid and exuberant, Kaylene Whiskey’s paintings are like nothing else. In her distinct style, Whiskey brings together celebrities and consumer culture with her Aboriginal heritage—and she has a major new video commission showing for this year’s Melbourne Art Fair.
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has earned its rightful place in Australia’s cultural calendar for the ambitious scope of its artistic programming, highlighting the diversity and range of artistic practices across the Asia Pacific region. This 10th triennial, ATP10, features 150 artists and collectives from 30 countries.
