At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia annual showcase of leading Australian artists under 35, eight artists turn loss into the labour of making.
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The artist population has fallen in all areas of Sydney, becoming less diverse, both racially and economically.
Waiting rooms as a carer are very different to the experience of being a patient.
The major retrospective – the first to be held since Eric Smith’s death in 2017 – includes his earlier religious works, as well as later abstract masterpieces.
Respected painter and teacher Janenne Eaton has influenced generations of Australian artists.
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
Carol Jerrems worked primarily with black and white photography until her early death in 1980. Over 140 of her photographs are currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Michael Leunig has died age 79. By turns over his long career, he was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur.
This year’s triennial sees artists focus on key issues such as labour migration, resource extraction, and expressions of home and community.
Ruth Faerber, a major innovator of printmaking in Sydney in the postwar years, was also a generous and perceptive art critic.
The evocative film charts Shen’s and his wife’s experience of life under the Mao regime – as well as communism’s influence on his work.
The rise of streaming was meant to help diversify music, but new research shows this hasn’t been the case in Australia.
In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this.
Brent Harris’ retrospective exhibition Surrender and Catch traces his art over four decades. It is a visual and linguistic treat.
For Australia’s artists, the cost of living crisis is also a wellbeing and art making crisis. And the effects of this will reach us all.
The Australian photographer, who has died at 65, originally trained as a painter and brought a certain sensibility of the painter’s hand to her practice.
To remove the portraits would miss a valuable opportunity to debate important questions about how we construct hero stories.
Milton Moon’s work produced over six decades is on show in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Disgraced Australian entertainer and artist Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93.
Fragmented scenes shift backwards and forwards through time to build an absorbing picture of the circle of artists who gathered around the Reeds.
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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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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Coordinator, ERCC Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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