From kewpie dolls used in the 2000 Sydney Olympics to a satirical bust from the 16th century, the Powerhouse Museum curatorium pick four of their favourites in the current show, 1001 Remarkable Objects.
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia.
Forget cultural nationalism, writes critic Lauren Carroll Harris, we fund art for a life of communal beauty and dignity.
Soil acts as both matter and metaphor in a new collaborative exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art that looks at the relationship between colonisation and environmental change.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa—and her art, showing at Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, is entwined with this history.
View, in pictures, the women of early Modernism in Australia, showing at the National Gallery of Australia’s new iteration of the Know My Name initiative—a series of exhibitions that shine a light on overlooked women artists through history.
A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?
Elisabeth Cummings has painted dappled Australian landscapes for over 60 years. Ahead of her survey exhibition at NAS Gallery, she spoke influences, doubt, achievement, and the quiet moments that breathe life into art.
A Sydneysider and Northern Territory local are being exhibited alongside each other in country X Country, the inaugural exhibition for Art Leven, formerly Cooee Art—Australia’s oldest Indigenous gallery.
Dance and choreography are experiencing a vital and widespread renaissance in contemporary art—but what’s the link and history between these two worlds, and how do they entwine in Australian arts today?
The winners of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards have been announced, with Keith Wikmunea, a Thu’ Apalech artist from Aurukun in Queensland, taking out this year’s top prize in Australia’s most prestigious Indigenous art awards.
Angus Gardner’s new works at Gallery 9 are both sculptures and paintings. He’s long been interested in transitional zones, flowing between mediums without distinction.
Spring1883 is back at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, with everything from sculptures of hot chips with wilted roses to Taylor Swift getting “cancelled”. At this boutique art fair, installation is everything—and the Art Guide editors have selected their top picks.
Western Australia has a long history of abstraction in art. Now, four female abstract artists from WA are placing their work in conversation, hosted in the Albany Town Hall.
Spanning the entire state of South Australia, SALA Festival is returning in 2023 with a staggering 9,000 artists, spanning everything from intimate studio tours to virtual reality.
