Visual Arts

Chinese acrobats join Fruit Flies for Borderville
A celebration of performance and place marks 35 years of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

10-minute bites on Asian Art a worthy chew
Former Asialink director, Alison Carroll, walks us through Asian art in a new series screened on ABC1 that targets schools.

SLAVE to good art
Christian Capurro’s new phone-video projection tips a hat to the minimalist light artist Dan Flavin, in an exhibition at ACCA.

Japan's erotic art tradition exposed
How different is circulating a 3D digital scan of a vagina from displaying a 17th Century Shunga print? Japan's obscenity…

Art Trams: Wooden trains on Route 67
Melbourne’s art scene will be given a boost as new winners of its Art Trams program are announced.

Binns and Valamanesh: an odd pairing
Parallel survey exhibitions raise questions on collaboration, materiality and the role of the curator.

Honey, I shrunk the space
Despite the grandeur of its title, this year’s Grand Designs Live will focus on making the most of small spaces.

Fiona Lowry takes the 2014 Archibald Prize
Amid a sea of jostling media, the winners of this year’s prestigious Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes were announced. But…

Melbourne Writers Festival 2014 program announced
Some of the world's best writers come together to share their big stories, big insights and even bigger ideas.

From Mona to Archie - the cult of the portrait
When is the line for a portrait more about cult tourism than the art on display?