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This is not just another Margaret Preston show. It is the Margaret Preston show for our generation.
It is perhaps the way Ken is brought forward by the bright yellow ochre background that gives the work its greatest sense of presence.
Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.
North Terrace: worlds in relief is currently showing at the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide.
The re-opening of the Potter Museum of Art is an art event of major proportions – with the architectural clout to match.
Justene Williams defined the universe in her art. Julie Fragar painted her doing this, and won the Archibald.
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
It’s the first time the MCA will be charging a general entry fee since 2000. The move reflects a global trend of museums facing financial pressure.
Arts Project Australia has been supporting artists with intellectual disabilities for more than 50 years. A new exhibition at TarraWarra gives us art at the heart of where we live.
Leon Paroissien, who died last week, was one of the great enablers of Australian art. He imagined a better future, then made it happen.
The eight-episode series follows a range of fictional characters as they live through true events that took place in Australia in 1979.
Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.
In 1986 the Australia Council paid for a young photographer to live for a year in Berlin. Anne Zahalka’s subsequent career shows this was money well spent.
The new film could be considered a huge achievement in Australian animation – even if it does lack adult appeal.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
This year’s Archibald Prize-winning painting by Laura Jones is of an angst-ridden Tim Winton, contemplating the degradation of our planet
Critics have long wrestled with the question of how artists and writers influence each other. For Luke Johnson, an encounter with a painting took him in a wholly unexpected direction.
An expansive Queensland Art Gallery survey show of lyrical Indigenous artist Judy Watson, mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri, is both thought provoking and stunningly beautiful.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
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Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
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Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, Adelaide University ; University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University