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First look at Tracey Moffatt’s Venice work
Ambiguously located images tell a story of Indigenous dispossession, landing a velvet punch on global audiences for the Venice Biennale.
Corporate collections doing controversy
Corporate collections are traditionally the bastion of conservatism. Allens Linklaters flips the tables on the corporate brand with edgy commissions.
$50,000 figurative art prize + sculpture with a social message
Newcastle Art Gallery cracks open our sense of self with entries open for a $50,000 figurative prize, and two major…
Inspire60: Ian Strange
Perth-born artist Ian Strange has an unusual relationship with suburbia, but it was a move to New York nearly a…
Plastic replicas make an art form of the copy
Artist Sarah Goffman reuses plastic in a clever pun that references history, while criticising contemporary society.
How colour blind artists cope
Good eyesight might seem to be a prerequisite for an artists but from Impressionist Edgar Degas to cyborg Neil Harbisson,…
The Right to Offend is Sacred
Indigenous artist Brook Andrew says it's not political, it's historical. His solo exhibition turns understanding on its head with hi-viz…
Labor puts arts at core of social agenda
A rallying call by the Labor Opposition has set a firm path to developing a National Arts Policy framework with…
The familiar can also be radical
A telephone call changed the way American artist Georgia O’Keeffe is viewed and was the catalyst to introducing three artists,…
An exhibition that wants to send you to sleep
From sleeping at the Venice Architecture Biennale to sleeping with others is a sculpture park, Matthew Bird alters our perception…