Feature Nicholas Smith and the sensuality of sculpture Nicholas Smith’s sensuous and bodily sculptures speak to the classical history of the form in an installation that is now on display at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions. Laura Couttie
Preview Belinda Fox masters the art of collaboration In her latest exhibition at Arthouse Gallery, Belinda Fox invites friends and artists to contribute by reflecting on their sense of home. Briony Downes
News GAGPROJECTS closes after 32 years GAGPROJECTS, a mainstay of the Adelaide art scene, has announced that the Kent Town space it has operated out of for 32 years will close at the end of August. Art Guide Australia
Review Shifting focus: ‘Outside the Frame’ turns the lens onto video and time-based art Video and time-based art is a mutant medium with a disjointed history. Jane O’Sullivan reviews Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image, which takes a snapshot of contemporary practice through 21 recent moving image commissions. Jane O'Sullivan
Feature Do we all have status anxiety? A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world? Neha Kale
Studio Inside Kez Hughes’s adorned Melbourne studio Step into Melbourne’s iconic Nicholas Building, where Kez Hughes has been crafting meticulous oil paintings that depict ancient objects from European museum collections—all for her solo exhibition Translations at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Josephine Mead