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A vendor's cart on street filled with Frida Kahlo souvenirs with red building behind.
Features

Why we can’t get enough of Frida Kahlo

This week’s record breaking sale is testament to Frida Kahlo’s appeal, but that international interest stretches far beyond the auction…

Gallery view of a video installation of televisions screens in an orb and paintings in background. AI art
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Christopher Kulendran Thomas review: rethinking safe zones through AI

In Safe Zone, Christopher Kulendran Thomas uses AI to ask powerful questions about how we record and relate to histories…

A large white gallery room with fluorescent lighting is filled with stones and rocks, plus a water course - an installation called Riverbed.
News

Is Olafur Eliasson's environmental-minded summer exhibition so green? 

A social media post has erupted in critical dialogue over waste in exhibition making, ahead of Olafur Eliasson’s major exhibition…

two women talking about an exhibition in a museum. artist
Features

New global standards tabled for museums collaborating with living artists

The International Committee for Museums tables paper on best practices for museums working with artists – ArtsHub takes a look.

Gallery setting with paintings of various shapes all still lives on soft blue walls. Mirra Whale
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Clarice Beckett and Mirra Whale review: a shared vision across generations

Nearly a century apart, these women artists demonstrate the enduring appeal of the still life at Ngungunggula regional gallery.

Untitled, Christine Godden, will feature in the NGV's MOTHER exhibition. Image: NGV.
News

MOTHER: NGV to premiere exhibition on motherhood 

MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection will run, free, from 27 March to 12 July 2026.

Image of a figure dressed as an asian deity in a film still. MUMA 2026
News

MUMA announces 2026 program, reinstating the human spirit in a changing world

Affirming the importance of university art galleries, MUMA announces a timely 2026 program that focuses on spiritualism and ancestral traditions…

detail view of an Aboriginal artist's studio with paint on table and chair and painting behind.
Features

The appeal of Aboriginal art in America

While the world might be shrinking in its engagement with the United States, it seems that America is still deeply…

Man in black suit and glasses in formal portrait in front of painting. Jason Smith
Interviews

Sobering but optimistic – AGSA Director Jason Smith takes stock in the face of change

AGSA Director Jason Smith speaks with ArtsHub about the realities of the role and how he is planning for the…

Image of long red earth road in outback Australia. Artback NT
News

Artback NT: celebrating three decades of artist-led stories

For the past 30 years, Artback NT has been bringing Top End artists to the nation, and the world.

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