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Textiles – the sleeping giant of contemporary art
As the dialogue around contemporary textile art expands, a new work by Turner Prize recipient, Keith Tyson, is cut from…
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the heart of a rainbow
Beyond the brand, beyond the dots – we review GOMA’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition and dig deep into the factors that…
GOMA trumps The Broad when it comes to experiencing Kusama
90,000 tickets sold out within hours to The Broad’s LA Kusama exhibition, while Queensland’s GOMA delivers its show free and…
Who is public sculpture really for?
From colonial statues and monuments for healing to heavy metal abstractions, a discussion at the Sydney Sculpture Conference questioned public…
Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist permits us to dream and lose ourselves in her immersive video works, but is it all…
Shifting models – funding sculpture organisations
Finding new ways to fund sculpture organisations has become a blend of the for profit and not for profit space.
Is a building worth more or less with public art?
The City of Sydney has announced that it plans to paint over Reko Rennie’s iconic Indigenous design on a city…
How to write your artist bio
It's one of the most miswritten, most confused tools in the artist's kit of skills, and getting it right is…
Australian artists respond where history forgot
With this week's centenary of The Battle of Beersheba, we look at three exhibitions that explore its other less told…
Regions are beyond sticky – they're hotspots
From resilience indicators to regional hotspots, research underpinned successes at the recent Creative Regions Summit in Canberra.