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New record for Whiteley, just shy of $4m
Whiteley sells for $3,927,272 at last night’s Menzies Art Brand auction in Melbourne making it the second highest amount paid

Twenty-three Australian artists make Sydney Biennale cut
Juliana Engberg's artist list announced this week, lives up to growing expectations for her 19th Biennale of Sydney.

Paddington verses Redfern: the changing gallery landscape
Are we witnessing the pendulum swing as Sydney’s gallery landscape again reshuffles its geographic footprint?

Sotheby’s results strong on objects
Melbourne was the location for two auctions this week, a total of 359 lots went under the hammer, Chinese ceramics…

Getting them in: Emerging Donors
SAMAG’s monthly lecture tackled a question facing many arts organisations, of how to stimulate the next generation of giving

Marea Gazzard 1928-2013
Gazzard’s enduring forms defined ceramics as sculpture, and pathed an exciting future in Australian art.

Armanious heads south to Heide
Commissioned for the opening of the MCAs new wing, Fountain finds a long-term home at Heide Museum of Modern Art.

This is not a death wish: Will Coles
Sydney artist Will Coles' exhibition at Brenda May Gallery, interrogates consumerism and war with a good dose of wit.

Absent bidders dominate Friend Auction
Deutscher and Hackett’s Donald Friend auction reports an 80% sale rate with solid activity in, and out, of the room.

White cubes turning yellow
The central spaces of galleries and studios are losing their dominance as 21st Century artists move from a physical footprint…