Visual Arts
Program announcements this week
The summer festivals are starting their big reveals, with Sydney Festival and Woodford the latest to unveil their 2014 programs.
Five emerging artists pitch career dreams to a live audience
The British Council has announced the five winners of the 2013 Realise Your Dream Awards.
Gallery to be built at the birthplace of Australian Impressionism
Impressionist Lab and Gallery proposed for Heidelberg.
Newcastle gains iconic public sculpture by Whiteley
Whiteley gifted to Newcastle Art Gallery at Walsh Bay’s loss.
Unbuilt projects given life at Venice Architecture Biennale
Australian architecture takes centre stage at Venice, as 21 unbuilt gems are realised against the backdrop of our new pavilion.
QAGOMA is Californian Dreaming over summer
The best of Californian Design from the 1930s-60s comes to Brisbane from the LA Country Museum of Art.
A ruby-encrusted fawn wins sculpture prize
Julia DeVille takes the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with her taxidermy fawn.
Sculptures valued at $500,000 vanish
An art experiment designed to test the public’s reaction has gone awry, with all the works now missing or damaged.
Death and hot summers nab the 2013 Moran Prizes
One of Australia's riches prizes was announced this week, moving from dark laments to ethereal self-portraits and acts of defiance
New public funding model: investment not subsidy
Buoyed by the success of MONA Tasmania is proposing restructuring arts funding, with less emphasis on grants and more on…