Preview
No Black Seas
“A keystone work in No Black Seas is a collectively authored large-scale sculpture made from over 50 sand-casted glass [pieces],” says ACE Open artistic director Patrice Sharkey.
Preview
Mike Parr: The Eternal Opening
Mike Parr’s The Eternal Opening takes place in a replica of Anna Schwartz’s Melbourne gallery that has been placed inside Carriageworks.
Jane O'Sullivan
News
Nusra Latif Qureshi wins Bulgari Art Award 2019
Critiquing the male gaze throughout art history, Qureshi questions the “absence of a female protagonist and even a point of view in major art collections,” she says. “Historically, there are not enough women’s voices in the art world.”
Steve Dow
Opinion
I Forced a Bot to Read Over 1000 Online Art Reviews and Then Asked It to Write One of Its Own… This Is What It Came up With
Let me begin with an anecdote to open this review, which is only marginally relevant to what is to follow. You’ll like this because when I finally come back to the subject you’ll go, ‘…oooh, clever!’
Andrew Frost
Review
Simon Denny: Mine
Denny’s prognosis in Mine is grim: as he says, instead of farming sheep and mining the landscape, we are now concentrating on mining and monetising data, with surveillance capitalism claiming human experience as raw material for extracting, prediction and sales: “We are all losing the game and the game is faulty.”
Andrew Stephens
Review
Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act
Electric sounds reverberate inside Haroon Mirza’s pseudo-operatic composition, The Construction of an Act, at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA).
Michaela Bear
Review
Solidarity: Inscriptions for the future
According to the exhibition room sheet, the word solidarity in the title was an invitation to “walk together.”
Tracey Clement
Preview
Valerie Sparks creates massive wallpapers for This is not a wallflower
The expanse of the sublime and the particular exactitude of botanical studies are present in Valerie Sparks’s immersive wallpaper installations of a hybrid Australian landscape.
Zara Sigglekow
Interview
Kent Morris on looking through a First Nations lens
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Briony Downes
Feature
Patterns of Interconnectedness: Art and History of Yirrkala
Rolling out across Adelaide in October, Tarnanthi, an annual platform for contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, features an art fair, exhibition and festival this year.
Andrew Stephens
Preview
Stacks and Sleeves: A Posthuman Landscape
Post-humanism anticipates a future in which bodies are enhanced, replaced or surpassed, and in which the status of ‘person’ isn’t defined by species or carbon-based physicality.
Sheridan Hart
Review
Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists
In one way or another, all seven artists in the 28th edition of MCA’s annual Primavera exhibition appear to be feeling the same way.
