Visual Arts
![Noel McKenna, ‘William Nuttall with horses in field’, 2023 (detail). Image: Supplied. Painting with soft blues and greens depicting a serene landscape of a couple of horses with one human figure petting the head of a horse.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/r106-s191-0218744jpg-e1719276443498.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Call for artworks from refugee artists, plus winners at National Portrait Gallery, recipients of the Regional Arts Fund and more!
![Two young people (in their twenties) are looking at a large screen image of a colourful AI-generated artwork in a darkened museum gallery space.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/MemoAkten_Distributed-Consciousness-2023-installation_Phoebe-Powell_RESIZED.jpg?w=310)
What AI means for museums, where big decisions loom large
AI is here and Australian cultural institutions must get in on the action, while also ensuring they can keep control…
![A grid of 18 prints in shades of blue are attached on a wall.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Michelle-Hamer-LINDEN-20240531_DSC0564-edit1.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Michelle Hamer: I'm a Believer, Linden New Art
A series of prints that explores chronic health issues through a lens of gendered language, access, and erasure.
![Experience ‘Sunrise Journeys’ at Ayers Rock Resort, Uluṟu. Photo: Supplied. First break of dawn with Uluṟu in the background among the desert environment.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4218-e1718773317248.jpeg?w=310)
A sunrise like no other – wonders of Country shared through Indigenous agency
Aṉangu artists share their deep connection to Country in a bespoke sunrise experience designed to captivate and entrance in Uluṟu.
![Exterior of old building with contemporary mirror entry. The Potter.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Architectural-render-of-the-Potter-Museum-of-Art-The-Potter-redeveloped-by-Wood-Marsh-Architects.webp?w=310)
The Potter announces reopening exhibition for 2025
The Potter Museum of Art will reopen in 2025 with an epic rewriting of art history.
![Selma Coultard and Mervyn Rubuntja at the Desert Mob Symposium 2023. Photo: Rhett Hammerton. A dark-skinned Aboriginal man with a short grey beard gestures with his left hand while holding a microphone in his right hand, into which he is speaking. He wears a brown hat, brown jacket and tan-coloured slacks. A brown-skinned Aboriginal woman wearing glasses, with her hair hair held back by a headscarf, sits to his right, but she is not the main focus of the photograph. The two sit beneath a screen, suggesting they are speaking on stage together.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Selma-Coulthard-and-Mervyn-Rubuntja-Iltja-Ntjarra-Art-Centre.-Desert-Mob-Symposium-Symposium.-.jpg?w=310)
Culture keeps the fire burning at Desert Mob
Desert Mob ignites Mparntwe/Alice Springs with First Nations pride and supports ethical purchasing of artworks alongside diverse programming.
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Exhibition focuses on a next generation of Torres Strait Island artists
Curatorial collaboration celebrates diversity of new making and greater exposure at NorthSite Contemporary Arts.
![Andrew Rogers, ‘Flora Exemplar 2’, 2020, bronze diptych. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Bronze sculpture resembling flowers in a natural setting.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4223-e1718948833677.jpeg?w=310)
Rogers’ $6.1 million gift to university collection
Sculptor and land artist Andrew Rogers has gifted another 31 contemporary works to Deakin University to provide students access to…
![Asian woman on lounge reading from laptop computer and wearing light blue sweater. Arts news.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/pexels-liza-summer-63481241.jpg?w=310)
This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
![Miles Astray, 'FLAMINGONE', 2024, entered into the 1839 Awards AI category and subsequently disqualified. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. The pink body of a flamingo with this head hidden, standing on a white sandy beach.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/F-L-A-M-I-N-G-O-N-E-by-Miles-Astray-scaled-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-e1718863127844.jpg?w=310)
Human artist beats AI, but it's coming back with a vengeance
While a non-AI image has taken out a win at an AI awards program, news of Meta scraping social posts…