Opinion
No Prices, Just Red Dots
If you’ve been around the art world for awhile, it’s easy to forget that a lot of people can still find the whole thing intimidating.
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Intersecting Lines
They were giants of the New York art scene of the 1980s, stratospherically popular with collectors and the public but snubbed by art institutions during their short lifetimes.
Steve Dow
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A Stitch in Time
Raquel Ormella has wielded a needle to chart our cultural landscape in all of its intensities.
Anna Dunnill
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Won’t Be Smote
Yhonnie Scarce creates works that not only have emotional depth and complexity, they are also tenderly monumental.
Andy Butler
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Joanna Logue paints the push and pull of the Floating World
Focusing on a particular setting to reach something universal preoccupies Joanna Logue, and she tries to achieve this in her solo show Floating World through landscape paintings that lean towards the abstract.
Zara Sigglekow
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Back to Black
Gallerist Anna Schwartz has been in the game for 35 years, and in an exhibition looking back, themes of change and returns resonate.
Barnaby Smith
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Assembled: The art of Robert Klippel
Insisting on the importance of the artist’s hand in giving a work vitality, Sydney artist Robert Klippel naturally made this evident in his distinctive sculptures.
Andrew Stephens
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Cementa19
Cementa19 will feature more than 40 artists making, exhibiting and performing in 20 venues across the town of Kandos, NSW, responding to its landscape, history, social, cultural and environmental context.
Steve Dow
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Hermannsburg Potters remember their past in the present
This exhibition by Hermannsburg potters looks back to the history of their Country in a way that is strenuously contemporary.
Louise Martin-Chew
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In the Stars
Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson’s prints present densely illustrated stories, spanning traditional knowledge, history and pop culture.
Sheridan Hart
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Interview: Amanda Marburg
Amanda Marburg is “a painter, not a sculptor,” she maintains. Her works might have a starting point in film or fairy tale, or riff on a moment in art history, but it’s the modest ‘sketch’ in plasticine that lends a distinctive look to her work and has her reiterating her vocational calling.
Varia Karipoff
Insiders
Anne Wallace: Strange Ways
Chris McAuliffe recommends Anne Wallace: Strange Ways at QUT Art Museum.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of art insiders share their thoughts on what to see this month.
