Visual Arts

GOMA trumps The Broad when it comes to experiencing Kusama
90,000 tickets sold out within hours to The Broad’s LA Kusama exhibition, while Queensland’s GOMA delivers its show free and…

On the move: latest appointments and resignations
A New Approach appoints Program Director; new Curator for Ian Potter; new Executive Director for Queer Film Festival, and a…

STILL: a matter of life and death
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery has announced the shortlist for the new National Still Life Award.

Queensland arts sector enters election mode
With an election looming, the state’s arts advocates are campaigning for increased investment in the cultural sector and greater emphasis…

Changing the mindset of the cultural cringe
AsiaLink's founding director, Alison Carroll, reflects on the challenges of seeing our own culture as equal to those of Europe…

The creative grants that respond to an artist’s needs
Brisbane City Council has done more than just listen to artists’ feedback; they have dramatically improved their funding model –…

Who is public sculpture really for?
From colonial statues and monuments for healing to heavy metal abstractions, a discussion at the Sydney Sculpture Conference questioned public…

Applause: recent winners
Video installation artists receives scholarship; Gallery and Museum Achievement Award winners announced; Commission recipient revealed, and more.

Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist permits us to dream and lose ourselves in her immersive video works, but is it all…

Imagining a better world: the art of degrowth
By speaking to our emotions, art can inspire ideas for alternate means of living in ways that science cannot.