The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), which re-opened to the public on 2 June, has announced new dates for the major international exhibition, Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London.
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide asks artists what they’ve been reading while working through the pandemic. In the third part of this series, Tracey Clement found out what Mark Schaller has on his bookshelves.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Always was, always will be, a ‘pocket exhibition’ on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website, Kolour Me Kweer: a glittering celebration of diversity at Blacktown Arts, a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce and the National Gallery of Victoria’s curator of Indigenous art, new works by Yukultji Napangati at Utopia Arts, and much more.
The Institute of Modern Art’s Making Art Work initiative is a new commissioning program designed to support Queensland artists during the pandemic-induced economic upheaval.
In his third session On the Couch, Andrew Frost admires the survival strategies of artists in the face of both actual catastrophes and crippling ennui.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our online editor Tracey Clement recommends online art highlights including QAGOMA’s Reconciliation Week collation of Indigenous stories, Jumaadi’s Together in Art Kids program with the AGNSW, Catherine Bell’s silent film The Artists, Craft Victoria’s virtual exhibition The Meaning of Things, and much more.
The Melbourne Art Fair has been postponed until February 2021, but their online viewing rooms are open to the public 3-7 June, offering a way to connect with the fair now.
The artists in Monster Theatres are “manifesting the monsters” of this cultural moment.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) opened on 1 June—one of the first major galleries to invite people back inside after the Covid-19 lockdown—with a few key differences.
Debra Phillips has won the 2020 Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) National Photography Prize. The Sydney-based artist took out the biennial acquisitive prize with her series The Good. The Just. The Beautiful and was awarded $30,000.
The First Nations Arts Awards recognise the lifetime achievements and outstanding creative practices of First Nations artists across Australia.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Tiarney Miekus recommends online art highlights including the Shirley Purdie at the National Portrait Gallery online, KINGS ARI artist updates from lockdown, Xanthe Dobbie’s online exhibition Desktop Holiday at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery website, Firstdraft moves an exhibition into Animal Crossing a life simulation game, and much more.
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