It’s an almost impossible task to pick one exhibition from a rich and varied year of visual arts offerings. While everyone is moved, motivated and impressed by different things we put the challenge to a number of curators, artists and directors to nominate their favourite show for 2017.
Ray Hughes was a legend of the Sydney art world with his loud ties, an assortment of hats, and a penchant for corduroy, as well as the services of a Beijing suit tailor of dubious taste.
It’s sprawling, it’s free and it will likely cement NGV’s place in the top 20 most attended museums in the world. What can we expect?
The topic of the 7th Biennale of Moscow, under the curatorship of Yuko Hasegawa, is the age of the Anthropocene with the title Clouds = Forests.
Complex and committed, international art star Yayoi Kusama lights up Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art with Life is the Heart of a Rainbow.
South Australian contemporary art space, ACE, spotlights the strength of women and enduring culture in Next Matriarch.
Spanning a 40 year career, Jenny Watson’s self-reflective blend of rebellion, nostalgia and symbolism comes to Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Pipilotti Rist sets a surreal scene for Australian audiences in Sip my Ocean.
Philosophically speaking, the real is unchangeable, authentic truth. Hyper Real at the National Gallery of Australia challenges that assumption.
In gardening and landscape design circles, Edna Walling (1895-1973) is considered royalty.
Unbeknownst to many, Australian artist Andrew Rogers is leaving an immense mark across the world.
Queensland Art Gallery has reconsidered its curatorial approach to Australian art, combining Indigenous and non-Indigenous art in the same space.
