Going Coastal
When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
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When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
A collaboration between Sydney’s Artspace and London’s Institute of Contemporary Art – Helen Johnson’s Warm Ties paints a confronting picture of Australia’s colonial legacy.
Art’s gatekeepers have given colour a bad rap. Katharina Grosse seeks to rehabilitate the audience from the effects of chromophobia.
Artspace is embarking on a yearlong project with no gallery, no borders and no holds barred.
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.
