Versailles: Treasures from the Palace
A major restoration program at Versailles has allowed a number of significant objects to travel from France to Australia for the first time.
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A major restoration program at Versailles has allowed a number of significant objects to travel from France to Australia for the first time.
Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver (1959-2006) was a quiet overachiever. Her works are displayed in some of the most prominent public spaces around Australia, housed in many private and public collections, and on display inside some of Australia’s most-visited buildings.
For French artist Philippe Parreno, the show is itself art-in-progress, not merely a vehicle to display discrete works.
No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016 offers PNG’s “cultural expression, giving us insight into the history of contact, and the ongoing strength of kastom (customary law, religion and government).”
The French phrase trompe l’oeil literally translates to ’trick the eye’ and, over the years, this kind of painting has come to seem a bit kitsch.
Polly Borland’s latest photographic series titled Not Good at Human at Sullivan+Strumpf stems from her feelings of displacement after moving to Los Angeles.
For The Nature of Things, Selenitsch has constructed a number of two-dimensional transmission towers from plywood. Comprised of clean lines and stripped of all ornamentation, they function as totems of modernity and, ultimately, as sites of contemplation.
Erewhon is an exhibition informed by history, literature and contemporary anxiety over terror, politics, migration and cultural identity.
Expansive and wide-ranging, Vile Bodies offers the opportunity to consider our present human condition in order to gauge our possible futures.
Ross Woodrow explores the hidden plumbing in the European fountain tradition, the way the human body operates, and Australia’s position both on the globe and culturally.
This exhibition, on loan from the British Museum, has already toured to the Middle East, Japan, Taiwan and Western Australia. Now Canberra hosts this travelling exhibition that covers over 200 million years in one room.
Rather than try to encapsulate more than 60 years in a survey show, the gallery is focusing on one decade of his practice, from Bigger Trees Near Warter to now.
