Painting

Global opportunity for watercolour artists, from Cairns to Italy, Spain and beyond
The Australian Watercolour Muster is calling for artists to join this growing international community, and expand their practice and networks.

Tom Polo – in a part of your mind, i am you, Ngununggula review: gallery greatness
Tom Polo’s first major institutional solo exhibition is a cracker.

Exhibition review: 2025 Art Award, Lennox St Gallery
Inner Melbourne gallery serves a banquet of young Australian artistic talent.

Exhibition review: Five Acts of Love, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
A group exhibition featuring local and international artists with artworks that shine like beacons.

Vale Kevin Connor: a painter, award-winning drawer and teacher
Two-time Archibald and Sulman winner, expressionist painter Kevin Connor has died at 92.

The problem behind sensational damage in galleries
From the Van Gogh-inspired Swarovski chair to closures at the Louvre – damage and security staff shortages present a new…

Exhibition review: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NGV International
The NGV's Winter Masterpieces exhibition brings beloved old masters to Melbourne.

Sydney Contemporary announces largest fair to date including inaugural Photo Sydney
The ninth edition of Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks features 114 exhibitors and more than 500 artists – and this year…

Exhibition review: Elizabeth Colbert, Objective Abstraction group exhibition, Tacit Gallery
Tacit’s final exhibition is brilliant yet bittersweet.

Exhibition review: Cézanne to Giacometti, National Gallery of Australia
A highly contextualised, thoughtful, and conversational exhibition which maps out a decades-long conversation of modern ways of seeing.