Despite the diversity of art and performance on display at the tenth Ten Days on the Island festival, key themes emerge: life, death, and Tasmania’s colonial history.
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A new survey exhibition of contemporary artist Janet Laurence urges us to reconsider the relationship between art, nature and politics.
Ben Quilty is the next big thing in Australian art. Will he be allowed - and will he allow himself - to explore and find his true potential as an artist?
Nora Heysen was the first woman to be awarded the Archibald Prize, but for most of her life she was defined not by her art, but by her relationship to her famous father, the artist Hans Heysen.
The first major loan to Australia from a repository of canonical art works of Chinese culture deserves to be seen by all those interested in Chinese art.
Indigenous artists and arts centres from the Kimberley region were invited to help curate this new exhibition, presented as part of the Perth Festival 2019.
Often overshadowed by her famous brothers, Ruby Lindsay found ways to challenge the restrictive gender roles of early-20th Century Australia.
One of the most significant woman of Venice’s golden age, Cornaro was an important figure in Renaissance politics, diplomacy and arts.
Through animation, video, light and sound, Theatre is Lying exposes how visual art, performance and theatrical devices can interrogate what is real and what is not.
Alex Seton’s sculpture A Durable Solution? dominates the protest exhibition at the forthcoming ALP national conference. He has also created an official memorial to Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
There is nothing to prepare us for the shock to the senses in the National Gallery of Victoria’s latest exhibition combining the works of M. C. Escher with Japanese design firm nendo.
Forty-five years after his death, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has mounted a major exhibition of Tony Tuckson, focussing on his intensely personal Abstract Expressionist works
Petyarre, who won the Telstra prize for Indigenous art in 1996, has died in Alice Springs.
This Perth exhibition is a raucous, overwhelming, exciting and at times confusing immersion into ideas about national identity.
There are many ways of visualising scientific concepts, as we discovered when an artist got in touch about some of our work.
Art can be a powerful means to confront and subvert stigma around menstruation.
A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels, as this gallery of pictures shows, are intriguing.
In the early 20th century, two families of collectors brought the best of modern French art to Russia. Many of their paintings - including works by Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne - can now be seen in Sydney.
Acknowledging the source of the images would amplify rather than diminish the power of Hank Willis Thomas’s political art.
A new Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition offers a set of reflections, calculations and speculations that engage with ideas about the perfect body, mathematical precision, quantum physics and a post-human world.
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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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Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Honorary Lecturer, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, UNSW
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University