Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
For over four decades William Yang has photographed moments of love and death, crisis and identity.
The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.
Despite the barriers to international travel, New York artist Robin Frohardt is bringing her ecological art installation—centred on plastic bags—to Adelaide.
This year’s Sydney Festival has defied the odds, opening with a focus on an entirely ‘Australian Made’ program.
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.
Overlooked during her time, the late Pat Larter was a master of wit, theatrics and provocation.
Artists dig into recent art history to explore queer identities here and now.
How do you choose who to paint, and why? Three Archibald Prize finalists discuss the people behind their 2020 portraits.
Artist and soccer fan Khaled Sabsabi captures transcendence in unexpected places.
