Feature Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers. Maya Hodge
Feature Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form. Steve Dow
Preview Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Josephine Mead
Feature Nusra Latif Qureshi and the threads of history The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self. Tahmina Maskinyar
News Khaled Sabsabi on the 61st Venice Biennale: “We need a way forward to exist and co-exist.” After announcing last week that artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino would represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has made the unprecedented decision to drop the team. Steve Dow
Preview Abstracting time From Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin to Lindy Lee and Paul Knight, an exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery uses the expanded field of abstraction to encourage deliberate and slow looking. Sally Gearon