Visual Arts
Revisiting the DNA by taking the curatorial helm
Two new collection displays herald significant changes for the National Gallery of Australia while tapping into the gallery’s collecting DNA…
An exhibition to cure your social distancing blues
Following a year of COVID isolation, an engaging exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery showcases intimacy, love and connection.
What's Budget 2021-22 got for the arts?
The short answer is not much more. The longer answer looks at flat funding for the Australia Council and previously…
New series RISING Podcast 2021: the audio guide to Melbourne’s winter festival
A new festival deserves a new approach to the way artists share and discuss the ideas that inform their work.
How festivals are coming out of COVID
After 2020’s postponements, festivals are back with a renewed focus on the local, exciting audiences across the nation.
Discover the photographer behind Australia’s most iconic moments
NFSA celebrates the 60-year career of the prolific Indigenous photojournalist Mervyn Bishop with an exhibition in Canberra only until August.
Exhibition Review: Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise, Hota Gallery
An impressive collection hang speaks to a legacy of patronage, while the inaugural exhibition Solid Gold celebrates local artists -…
The 2021 budget must think big and reinvest in the social capital of ideas
The cash splash of the COVID-19 recovery budget should be used to place arts and creativity at the centre of…
Victoria to get $288 million to support arts sector following challenging 2020
Victoria’s creative industries will see some relief in the form of a $288 million investment from the State Government in…
Vale Ku Ku Imidiji man Arone Meeks, Chair of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Boomalli co-founder, teacher, Indigenous health care activist, and internationally collected Queensland artist, Arone Meeks has died aged 64. He leaves…