Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

Visit Yarra Ranges Regional Museum for stimulating, informative and enjoyable experiences all year round.

Discover treasures from the Museum’s collection in the Connections Gallery, including objects of national and international significance. These items and their stories provide unique insight into the history of the Yarra Ranges and the region today.

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

35-37 Castella Street, Lilydale VIC 3140, Australia

03 9294 6511

yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Yarra-Ranges-Regional-Museum

Wed to Sun 10pm–4pm.
See our website for latest information.
Free admission.

Preview

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

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Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

Book Reviews

A compact but rewarding monograph that delves inside Natalya Hughes’s layered practice

Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.

Jane O'Sullivan

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A stitch in time

Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.

Briony Downes

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AI-Generated Art? Bring it on!

Artists need not fear the spectre of AI-generated art. Instead, Oslo Davis suggests, we need to start reaping the rewards.

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