The pandemic has been a wake-up call. Now, more than ever, the arts are a part of our daily lives. They are not something only “the elite” enjoy; they are an expression of the human condition.
From Melbourne to Brisbane to Newcastle to Sydney to Mildura, here’s six new galleries with six new and compelling exhibitions.
Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, cultural knowledge: they can all be invisible.
In a world defined by speed and acceleration Radical Slowness at The Lock-Up explores slowness through art and thought.
Central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is a focus on collectives coming together. We look at the stories and art behind three Indigenous collectives in rīvus: Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre and Casino Wake Up Time from Australia, and New Zealand’s Mata Aho Collective.
Forging a photographic practice throughout the 1970s feminism movement, Ponch Hawkes is now turning to a feminist issue of the moment: the ageing female body. With works currently showing in the National Gallery of Victoria’s QUEER exhibition, Hawkes will soon unveil her solo at Geelong Gallery.
Across dance, performance and video, Amrita Hepi’s latest art—showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art—isn’t only about protest, but what happens after the revolution.
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.
