Visual Arts

Best free exhibitions in Australia August 2025 – guide
From PICA’s Hatched Graduate show to 20 years of Modern art in Queensland, discover the best free exhibitions in Australia…

Postcard from Mexico City: Modernist architecture to famed murals and the hottest art galleries.
ArtsHub takes a trip to Mexico City – and its 170 registered museums – discovering that there is much more…

Indigenous Arts Officer – so you want my arts job?
Two Indigenous Arts Officers at The Torch share how they empower incarcerated mob through art and why they love their…

You're killing me: tax reform for artists is needed now
An urgent call for tax reform, as studio artists and creatives miss out on annual wage index but still forced…

New $30,000 art prize values respect, and the worth of female artists
The Pymble Ladies' College Values Art Prize is tipped to inspire a next generation of women artists.

Ritual Eternal review: group show exhibition at Project8 Gallery
Melbourne gallery unveils its latest high quality visual essay: Ritual Eternal.

Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close review: a well-earned retrospective
The Art Gallery of NSW maps out Janet Dawson’s career highpoints – an inspiration for artists working today

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025
Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.

Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025
William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.

Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures
Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?