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Lisa Roet puts our primate relations in the spotlight
For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apes—close relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
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How motorcycles became objects of art and desire
From Marlon Brando’s Triumph Thunderbird 6T in ‘The Wild One’ to the Harley-Davidsons of ‘Easy Rider’, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments.
Barnaby Smith
News
NGV Contemporary to transform Melbourne’s Arts Precinct
As part of a bumper Budget announcement yesterday, the Victorian government confirmed their commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary.
Art Guide Australia
Feature
Beyond the City, Toward the Continent
From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
Timmah Ball
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A particularly subtropical feel
Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.
Rebecca Gallo
Feature
ACMI launches innovative new online experience
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will reopen its renovated space in early 2021. But ACMI has already unleashed XOS, the shorthand title for its new internet “experience operating system,” which features artworks and performances curated and created specifically for online, and a new video-on-demand service for arthouse and festival films.
Steve Dow
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Anna Schwartz opens new space with Stephen Bram’s paintings
After Victoria’s lengthy lockdown, Anna Schwartz has reopened with not one, but two exhibition spaces in her Melbourne gallery.
Tracey Clement
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Sydney’s newest museum gives Indigenous objects agency
Three of the University of Sydney’s significant cultural collections all have a new home within the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Louise Martin-Chew
News
Line-up announced for The National 2021
Both artists and curators have been announced for The National 2021: New Australian Art, a major collaboration between three of Sydney’s biggest cultural institutions.
Art Guide Australia
Interview
Olga Cironis on the intimate shared language of art
Over many months, Olga Cironis has been recording personal stories about love and connection. She talks about working collaboratively with strangers, and the intimate catharsis of speaking one’s experience out loud.
Sheridan Hart
Review
Craftivism
Co-curated by SAM’s Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates, Craftivism features 18 Australian artists who share an affinity for craft-based art with political gestures.
Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Michelle Hamer on dark humour in difficult times
What happens when slogans and catchphrases are treated as instructions? In 2020, a year riddled with new phrases and contradictory messaging, Michelle Hamer has had plenty to work with.
