Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
With a practice steeped in controversy, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work is crisp, often confronting, and occasionally revelatory.
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With a practice steeped in controversy, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work is crisp, often confronting, and occasionally revelatory.
Community and place are the central focus of Home is where the heat is. Held at Canberra Glassworks, the exhibition celebrates this multi-functional centre’s 10th anniversary.
Simon Blau’s solo show, Faulty Narrative, can be read as a fruitful manifestation of contradictions and loss of control.
Gerhard Richter, the well known German painter, has created works that adhere to abstraction, realism and expressionism, but as a sum evade these definitions.
Tasmanian weather patterns and their seasonal effects on the landscape are subjects Philip Wolfhagen knows well.
Ashleigh Garwood is drawn to dramatic landscapes: the frigid majesty of glaciers, the caldera of volcanoes, deep ruptures in the surface of the planet; places that have an otherworldly ambience.
Imagine an open-aired band rotunda filled with 38 upside-down snare drums, all hanging from the ceiling. With drumsticks hovering over the mirrored drum skins, the scene is a literal suspension of disbelief.
American artist Joseph Kosuth once said of his work, “All I make are models. The actual works of art are ideas.”
The desperate days following the 1629 wreck of the Batavia are a nightmarish chapter in Western Australian history.
After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, currently showing at the Samstag Museum of Art as part of this year’s OzAsia Festival, has been co-curated by Siuli Tan and Louis Ho from Singapore Art Museum (SAM)
When we experience art it is often a case of look but don’t touch. The group exhibition Ex Machina turns this notion on its head and presents a refreshing critique of the role of technology in artistic experience.
An exhibition at the JamFactory presents striking examples of contemporary Indigenous design. Many of the works are the product of collaborations and partnerships forged.
