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
Interview Lost in Space: A Conversation with Cao Fei Luise Guest speaks with internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Cao Fei—whose work is on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales—about why the city is a repository of memory and the power of the places we forget or overlook. Luise Guest
Feature Altered states The Future & Other Fictions, a landmark exhibition at ACMI, reflects both the cultural forces that determine our reality and the power of imagining our world anew. Michelle Wang
Preview Tony Clark and the other side of sculpture For over four decades, Tony Clark’s painting practice has merged a deep appreciation for art history with a desire to push beyond the traditional confines of prescribed mediums. His latest exhibition at Buxton Contemporary focuses on sculpture—or the idea of it. Sally Gearon