Gina Fairley
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The trigger to rethinking Australia’s Venice Biennale management
Directives from the Venice Biennale have had a ricochet effect that’s rocked arts philanthropy to its core back in Australia.
Record breaker: a $3M Asian scroll tops Australian auction results
With an estimate below $10,000, a simple landscape broke Australian records on Wednesday night, selling in excess of $3M.
The long road to progress: Unpacking the Australia Council’s Annual Report
This week the Australia Council tabled its 2016-2017 Annual Report. We take a look at the big picture; a road…
Cultural participation: the USA versus Australia
Within a matter of months, two major research studies have been released on cultural participation. How different are they, and…
TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art
In its second edition, and with a $17.54M boost from BHP, we take a look at Tarnanthi and its legacy…
A global first for Sydney cultural organisations
A consortium of 27 cultural organisations have come together to increase visibility and accelerate innovative partnerships.
Next Matriarch
A next wave of strong First Nations women are changing the face of contemporary Indigenous art.
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…