Visual Arts
Emptying bookshelves offer new market for visual artefacts
As Amazon launches its MatchBook service, the relationship between real world and digital products is up for grabs. New opportunities…
World-breaking result as Brits focus on Aussie art
Australia was under the hammer in more ways than one this week, as Christies London set a new world record…
Big week for visual arts winners
Awards for furniture designers, landscape painters and region-specific prizes for artists were all announced this week.
Border-jockey artists claim Brisbane home with first Australian survey
Brisbane-based Filipino collaborative, the Aquilizans’, re-chart notions of home and migration, connecting communities globally.
Reimagined landscapes
The 2013 winner of the Paddington Art Prize has been announced.
A rat among the ranks at MONA
2012 recipient of the MONA Scholarship, Pip Stafford, is turning MONA’s library into A Rat’s Nest.
User utopia experiments with architecture
With the power of a wrecking ball, the Visual Arts puts its stamp on this year’s Sydney Architecture Festival.
Wangaratta Jazz Festival plays on despite Council crisis
The Wangaratta Jazz Festival has received guaranteed funding, circumventing dependence on a sacked Council.
Dead Croc Lucky for some
Aly de Groot has taken out the 2013 Togart Contemporary Art Award with a work made from crocodile skulls and…
9,000 sand drawings honour fallen on Normandy Beach
On International Peace Day, an imaginative art project was a powerful reminder of the cost of war.