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Archibald reject wins Australia’s richest portrait prize
A painting of a fellow artist nabbed Tim Storrier the richest portrait prize this year, but it appears that taste…

The $1 Namatjira Copyright deal – how it happened
How momentum won one of the most important copyright cases in Australian art history.

Gerhard Richter: The life of images
Does the exhibition live up to the legend? We walk through QAGOMA’s Richter show – the largest in the southern…

Regional gallery leads national debate on male gender politics
A regional gallery director’s curatorial indulgence opens the door on a national debate, and catches the eye of the Classification…

Text me babe!
Artists have been using text in their art since the 1960s, but a suite of new exhibitions presented nationally reboot…

You’re kidding: Rembrandt and Pipilotti Rist have things in common?
What could this world-renowned 17th century Dutch Master have in common with pioneering video artist Pipilotti Rist?

Kaldor project looks at sound as a medium
Like a message in a bottle, a colonial rotunda above The Rocks in Sydney is used in tandem with Mozart's…

Exit Interview: Tamara Winikoff
Tamara Winikoff has been at the helm of NAVA, the national peak body for the visual arts, for 22 years.…

Angelica Mesiti
Returned faith – an exhibition with so little conversation has so much to say.

Path to collaboration-led reconciliation
Parliament House is more than a location for sitting politicians; it is the meeting place for artists Imants Tillers and…