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.
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French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the National Gallery of Victoria, features over a 100 of these pleasant, cheerful and pretty paintings.
The re-opening of the Potter Museum of Art is an art event of major proportions – with the architectural clout to match.
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.
Mirrorscape, by the French artist Théo Mercier, is on display at MONA. The commitment to realism is impressive – but the lives behind this wreckage are invisible.
The technology is always on call and is quite competent. But it lacks the contemplation and attention to detail that yield great works of art.
Artists in this year’s Sydney Festival imagine exit strategies from a climate change doom loop – and dream of taking root in its post-apocalyptic rubble.
Graffiti removal forms part of the visual culture of contemporary cities. The knowledge and aesthetic contributions of “buffers” have gone unnoticed for too long.
A lot of how we experience art comes down to reading between the lines. But is it okay to just bring your own meaning to the table, or is understanding the artist and other perspectives important?
With nearly 200 pieces from Yayoi Kusama, dating from the 1930s to 2024, this is a huge and profoundly moving exhibition.
The arts are not a nice-to-have luxury. They play a crucial role in the UK economy, and precarious poverty should not be the inevitable lot of an artist’s life.
Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to overstimulate the senses.
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.
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 artist’s current exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Birds in Far Pavilions, delicately weaves together art and memory.
Soviet socialist realist art is often maligned. But there is much to celebrate in this style of art, writes Alison Carroll. Here are her top picks from our own region.
In a world where algorithms increasingly shape everyday life, many works of art are beginning to reflect how intertwined we’ve become with computational systems.
In this bold and unusual exhibition, we listen to traditional owners and get inside the imaginations of eight of Australia’s most innovative landscape architecture studios.
First Nations artist Reko Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously puzzling, intriguing and entertaining.
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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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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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