Visual Arts

Opportunities and awards
Residency to create site-responsive work inside chic hotel, winners of Bush Music Fund, crime book finalists, and more!

Everything other than Gauguin: addressing the dilemma
We listen, we learn, we ponder, we argue with ourselves and, hopefully by the end of it, we gain a…

Dutch designer’s leap of faith in Australia pays off
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen first visited Australia for skydiving aged 17. Now the creative mastermind has brought a…

Exhibition review: Wilder Times, Bundanon
What were you doing in 1984? This exhibition positions Arthur Boyd's iconic landscapes alongside other artists of the day.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival stumbles
The annual projection festival will not go ahead this year, amid concerns over continued insufficient funding.

200 fashion designs gifted to NGV
Paris-based Australian fashion designer Martin Grant gifts significant collection to NGV ahead of exhibition.

Winter warmers: 18 new art books to curl up with
Warm up with these new art publications hot off the press.

This week's arts news and trending topics
This week's top arts news stories and most read reviews.

Opportunities and awards
Music Victoria Awards open for nominations, ATYP casting, plus winners of ceramic prize, and more!

Exhibition review: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia
Gauguin may have lived abroad, but did he ever really leave Paris? This exhibition explains.