Neha Kale’s A Foreign Return: on art and habitation is an unusual blend of memoir and art criticism, spanning continents and time.
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The National Gallery of Australia exhibition showcases the late British artist’s mastery of intimate detail and talent for connection.
A new stained-glass window at the National Gallery of Victoria offers clues to one of Australia’s most familiar yet mysterious artworks.
Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition is at the Art Gallery of South Australia, on tour from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia annual showcase of leading Australian artists under 35, eight artists turn loss into the labour of making.
An Earth scientist reviews Julian Charrière’s new exhibition spanning volcanoes, glacial rocks, and humans’ short yet impactful role in geological time.
It is perhaps the way Ken is brought forward by the bright yellow ochre background that gives the work its greatest sense of presence.
This exhibition is not driven by aesthetics alone. It is a coming together of rich individual identities voicing their history, knowledge and lived experiences.
Under curator Hoor Al Qasimi, we see artistic narratives – like memories – are both personal and collective, enduring yet subject to change over time
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
Yanagi Sōetsu’s call to value simple, well-made objects feels especially relevant in our current disposable culture.
These 5 great listens investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession with authenticity.
The earliest works in the Geelong exhibition include a layered charcoal drawing of Lewer’s childhood church. It was here he made his first confession.
Mike Hewson’s The Key’s Under the Mat is one of the most ambitious and intelligent works of public art created in Australia in recent years.
The 2025 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander at the Art Gallery of South Australia is titled Too Deadly.
Pat Hoffie’s I have loved/I love/I will love at Queensland Art Gallery draws of images, aired day after day, of devastation in Gaza.
Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.
Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.
The Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition of artists under 35 asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.
Engaging multiple senses transforms how students learn about art and develop creative confidence.
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