Anmatyerr people live 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The work of Anmatyerr artists is now on display in Switzerland for the first time.
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Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic community has condemned this decision.
An increasing number of galleries are asking what it takes to be welcoming and engaging for the younger generation. Here’s how they’re rising to the challenge.
Bianca Censori was not wearing nothing at the Grammys; she was wearing a dress that exposed everything. It’s an important distinction.
Images clamour for our attention. Slow looking can help us thrive. Here’s what it is, and how to practise it.
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.
Viral selfie spot Saint Ignatius in Rome has much to teach us about the histories of painting, of understanding the eye, and of religious devotion.
Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Sunglasses are important for protection. But over the centuries they have also become fashion accessories and personal signature items.
Ruth Faerber, a major innovator of printmaking in Sydney in the postwar years, was also a generous and perceptive art critic.
Work by contemporary First Nations fashion designers advocates and showcases culture, craft, sustainability and a desire for truth-telling.
Leon Paroissien, who died last week, was one of the great enablers of Australian art. He imagined a better future, then made it happen.
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 art gallery can be a great place to talk about nudity with children. Here’s how to start the conversation, and answer their questions.
A ‘childish’ prank that will ‘harm’ MONA? Hardly. The world loves an art forger – and now they have a female star.
Brent Harris’ retrospective exhibition Surrender and Catch traces his art over four decades. It is a visual and linguistic treat.
Regional galleries are uniquely positioned to lead the transformation of Australia’s art industry towards greater cultural diversity.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
Rising has great potential to transform the arts ecosystem in Melbourne. But this requires some deep consultation and consideration as it contemplates what the future holds.
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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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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Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University
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Honorary Research Fellow, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland
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Sessional Academic in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
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Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Visual Art and McGlade Gallery Director, Australian Catholic University