Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition is at the Art Gallery of South Australia, on tour from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
- Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
The 24 artists in the exhibition have ambitiously taken up the challenge of considering alternative futures.
The 2025 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander at the Art Gallery of South Australia is titled Too Deadly.
The A$100,000 prize, awarded every two years, is open to artists under 40. The 22 artists on display point to a vibrant contemporary art scene.
Australia has a rich history of artists engaging in political issues, and of such work being shown without timidity in state and national galleries.
Brent Harris’ retrospective exhibition Surrender and Catch traces his art over four decades. It is a visual and linguistic treat.
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.
Frida Kahlo devotees, this new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia is your show.
Milton Moon’s work produced over six decades is on show in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media at the Art Gallery of South Australia is a brilliant new exhibition into the little explored side of the pop master.
The senior artist works across genres, much of her art reading like a stream of consciousness thoughts about contemporary life.
From the botanical gardens to the art gallery, Adelaide’s winter is awash with light.
Pure Form at the Art Gallery of South Australia brings together some of Japan’s most interesting post-war art.
Sebastian Goldspink’s 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State is a conceptual riposte to this colonial settler history, and much more.
Although they work in different genres, a similar sense of restraint imbues the work of each.
This exhibition is Australian art at its best.
Australian surrealism has long been understood as if it was imported from Paris. This new exhibition places two Czech-Australian émigrés at the heart of the movement.
Known for her soft capturing of tonal shifts and poignant moments, painter Clarice Beckett’s legacy was almost lost to time and decay. Now her work is being celebrated in a major exhibition.
Ten artists and collectives are on display in this exhibition, questioning ‘If the future is to be worth anything.’
Artists have always created monsters to embody human fears. In this year’s Adelaide Biennial, Australian contemporary artists bring our past demons and current fears to life.
Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.
The research libraries attached to Australia’s art galleries are one of the nation’s great cultural assets. But the National Gallery of Australia’s library is losing crucial staff as ‘efficiency dividends’ hit home.
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