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The Promise of Hope
Artist and soccer fan Khaled Sabsabi captures transcendence in unexpected places.
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Making Art Work offers a new deal for Queensland artists
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.
Barnaby Smith
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That ceramicist who survived a bushfire inside his kiln has much to teach us
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.
Andrew Frost
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Weekly Online Art List #7
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.
Tracey Clement
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Online viewing rooms offer a taste of the Melbourne Art Fair now
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.
Zara Sigglekow
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Art reflects monstrous times in the Adelaide Biennial
The artists in Monster Theatres are “manifesting the monsters” of this cultural moment.
Steve Dow
News
Art Gallery of New South Wales is now open
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.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Debra Phillips wins MAMA National Photography Prize 2020
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.
Art Guide Australia
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First Nations Arts Awards honour Alison Milyika Carroll and Djon Mundine OAM
The First Nations Arts Awards recognise the lifetime achievements and outstanding creative practices of First Nations artists across Australia.
Anna Dunnill
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Weekly online art list #6
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.
Tiarney Miekus
News
Vale Frank Watters (1934 – 2020)
Tributes have flowed this week following the news that Frank Watters — well known Sydney gallerist — passed away at the age of 86.
Tracey Clement
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22nd Biennale of Sydney to reopen with extended dates
NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, will reopen from 16 June, with some venues opening from 1 June 2020.
