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![Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+. Photo: Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices. Image: Courtesy M+, Hong Kong. Raffel against a green tiled architectural background. She is a middle-aged woman with long black and grey hair, wearing red lipstick and smiling at the camera. She is dressed in a black blazer with a white flower brooch.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_4146-e1715314884893.jpeg?w=310)
Building a contemporary museum: learnings with Suhanya Raffel
From studying art history in Sydney to helming the Asia Pacific Triennial in Queensland and now leading Hong Kong’s M+,…
![Woman in blue suit outside Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. To the right of her is a huge patterned arrow on the wall pointing down to the ground.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/221212_SuzanneCotter_06_423_highres.jpg?w=310)
When you need to change to get it right
The MCA has worked with its challenges – and in sync with museum trends globally – to rethink its future.…
![‘Fit for a King: Vincent Jenden Reimagines The Johnston Collection’. Photo: ArtsHub. An elaborate lounge room with elegant decor. The walls are painted a light pastel green and artworks are hang across the walls and antique furniture is on display.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_4079-e1711085936215.jpeg?w=310)
6 Easter eggs to find at The Johnston Collection
ArtsHub reveals some hidden gems with quirky stories that can be found in 'Fit for a King: Vincent Jenden Reimagines…
![open suitcase with research books inside.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/pexels-tugba-donmez-18137008.jpg?w=310)
Emerging Indigenous cultural workers head abroad
Six Indigenous cultural workers are embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime Fellowship abroad. Who are they?
![exterior view of gallery with sunlight](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Museum-of-New-Zealand-Te-Papa-Tongarewa.-Wikicommons.jpg?w=310)
Culture crisis – can NZ’s museums be saved?
Surfacing reports on the dire future for Aotearoa's cultural institutions only scratch the surface – Andrew Wood digs deeper to…
![Jumaadi, ‘Malaikat [Angel I]’, 2019-. Acrylic on buffalo hide. Collection of the artist. Image: Supplied. A detailed work depicting two figures flying with white wings and meeting each other in the centre. They both have two eyes on the side of their heads. In the background is an irregular oval with a circle of trees inside and a white bird on the bottom right corner.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Malaikat-I-Angel-I-2019-sm-e1710377627604.jpg?w=310)
Forming amicable relations between adversarial nations through art
Australian and Indonesian artists traverse a political divide to find common ground and bring distinct ways of addressing shared concerns.
![a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/HERO_Unshackled_Artwork_landscape-cropped-version-e1710889448419.jpg?w=310)
Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth
The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…
![Add-on. Gallery space with blue walls and carpet and colourful abstract artworks. Desmond Lazaro.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Desmond-Lazaro-AGNSW.jpg?w=310)
Role of the add-on exhibition
Within today’s museum environment some exhibitions are not entirely ‘PC’ (politically correct). We look at the role of the ‘add-on’…
![Photo: Stelios Kazazis, Unsplash. Three sculptures of goddesses on the architectural column of the Parthenon.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/stelios-kazazis-Xfu28sRTFWY-unsplash-e1706657299218.jpg?w=310)
Australians fighting for the Parthenon Marbles’ return
A major campaign in Australia has been active since the 1980s in building a movement around the return of the…
![Left: Lavinia Fontana, ‘Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine’, 1574-77 oil on copper. NGV, Felton Bequest, 2021. Image: Supplied. Right: Artemisia Gentileschi, ‘Lucretia’, c.1630-35 oil on canvas. Private collection. Image: Supplied.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/IMG_3931.png?w=310)
Do you know the first female professional artists in Western history?
Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Aguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi sustained rewarding artistic practices with an entrepreneurial mindset.