In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.
For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.
In an era that is saturated with visual information, photographs that change the way we see the world can feel increasingly elusive. We invited three photographers to choose an image that challenges our assumptions about politics and culture during this historical moment.
The images of Haitian-French photographer Henry Roy—on display for the first time at the Art Gallery of Western Australia—are a tribute to the landscapes that loom large in our imagination and a beguiling antidote to the brutality of the world.
The Future & Other Fictions, a landmark exhibition at ACMI, reflects both the cultural forces that determine our reality and the power of imagining our world anew.
The paintings of Ethel Carrick—whose legacy is being celebrated via a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia—offer distinctive and poignant lessons in seeing the world.
Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women, now showing at the National Portrait Gallery, are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.
Tongan legends and pop culture heroes face off in the work of Telly Tuita, an artist whose freewheeling visual language articulates the light and shade of experience and the multiple selves we contain. Tuita is now showing as part of Sydney Festival.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
