The artistic directors for the 24th Biennale of Sydney are Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero—only the second time in the event’s 49-year history it will be curated by co-artistic directors. Here, the incoming directors talk about collaboration, the nature of art and the concept of ‘international’.
Congratulations to Blak Douglas who has won the 2022 Archibald for his exquisite, urgent portrait of Karla Dickens, aptly titled Moby Dickens. The winners of the Wynne and Sulman Prizes have also been revealed.
The finalists have been revealed for the 2022 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, while Claus Stangl has won the Packing Room Prize for his portrait of New Zealand writer and director Taika Waititi.
The winners of the 2022 Victorian Craft Awards have been announced, with Blanche Tilden winning ‘The Lynne Kosky Award for Contemporary Jewellery’, alongside another five award categories recognising craft in its many forms—and there’s a stunning finalist exhibition on display at Craft Victoria.
‘The Picasso Century’ blockbuster will be opening at the National Gallery of Victoria in June, capturing Pablo Picasso’s extraordinary career, alongside dialogues with the many artists, poets and intellectuals he interacted with, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí and Gertrude Stein.
As flood waters devastate south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, a number of galleries, museums and cultural hubs are currently closed. Our thoughts are with those affected. We’ll keep a rolling update of closures online, alongside ways those affected can be supported at this time.
Joel B. Pratley has won the 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) for his evocative photograph Drought story, capturing a lone farmer walking through the reddened haze of a dust storm, in drought-stricken Australia.
After years working overseas as a curator and gallery director, Suzanne Cotter will return home to Australia as the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney.
The NSW Government has committed $480-$500 million to renew the Powerhouse Museum Ultimo as the centre of a design and fashion hub.
Peter Wegner has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in its centenary year with his Portrait of Guy Warren at 100.
Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja, a renowned artist from the Western Kimberly region of Western Australia, was honoured with a prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The 2021 Australia Council Awards honoured Vivienne Binns OAM for her outstanding commitment to Visual Arts, Cat Jones for her contribution to Emerging and Experimental Arts, and Marianne Wobcke received the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
